Since my site is fairly new I thought I'd start with the basics for my blog posts. I'd like to review a recent open source project that I came in contact with about 9 months ago. The name of this project is called, Drupal. I came in contact with Drupal during some research that I started doing when I got hired on at my current job. My first project was to research Content Management Systems (CMS) and figure out which one we were going to use for their new website that I was hired on to do. Coming into this I had no experience with any CMSs and had no idea what I was jumping into.

I think I installed just about every one that I could find until I finally had to make a decision. When I finally decided on Drupal it took me merely days to realize how smart that decision was. Not only is it a robust CMS, but the community behind it is pretty incredible. At first I didn't know much of what I was doing, but since Drupal is so straight-forward it was easy to figure out my way around.

Now, 9 months later, I have built 3 websites (including this one) and am in the process of building about 3 more! The coolest part about it is that I haven't had to do much customization other than finding the modules that will meet my expectations. There were a few instances where I had to dig a little deeper to change certain strings or some CSS stuff, but overall Drupal and the community did most of the work.

If I was a professional "reviewer" then I would give Drupal 5 out of 5 Stars! Go Drupal!