With Acquia Drupal, you are able to:

• Build sophisticated websites without programming

• Increase social participation

• Simplify user management and administration

• Improve content organization and discovery

• Communicate securely with the Acquia Network

Build sophisticated websites without programming

CCK - Content Construction Kit

Take advantage of a wizard-driven interface to create content types that meet your specific site requirements. One of Drupal's most powerful module sets, CCK offers web designers flexibility to create new content types without programming when standard content types, such as a blog or page, will not meet your needs. Define field types, build connections between nodes, and manage the display of fields throughout the site. Using CCK, developers and adminstrators can quickly implement and deploy new content types without having to write a single line of PHP or SQL code.

Views & Blocks

Automate the creation of custom, filtered views of content for display throughout the site to simplify navigation and presentation. Create relevant database queries based on content type, keywords, images or other filters from a modular, wizard interface. Once created, views are available for use throughout a site as pages or blocks, smaller navigation elements that can be deployed throughout your website. Control access to views and blocks with role-based permissions.

Images

Incorporate images into content throughout your site, build galleries and create a multimedia experience for your users. Automate resizing and viewing behavior for thumbnail, teaser, and full images, enable attachment to nodes of other content types and simplify the creation and sorting of images in galleries.

Increase social participation

Single and multi-user blogs

One of the fastest ways to encourage user participation on your site is to give registered users the ability to create and publish their own blogs. Blogs consist of individual posts that are time stamped and are typically presented by date, similar to a diary. You can add a blog navigation link to the main menu or add a recent posts block to any page to see recent entries from all users on a site, as well as track posts with an RSS 2.0 feed for each blog.

Wikis

Quickly build wikis with the Drupal book module and markdown so teams can jointly author and collaborate content with wikis. Attach files, track wiki page revisions and manage contributions by role to facilitate rapid-cycle group collaboration. Site administrators can control wiki input formats - offering HTML, rich text editing and markdown syntax options.

Markdown

Give your content contributors options when creating content on your site. Whether authoring a wiki or creating a static HTML page, users can use markdown syntax to quickly create formatted content without having to write HTML.

Forums

Facilitate topic-based discussions across groups with discussion forums. Topics are presented as threaded discussion boards and are comprised of an initial post and replies. Each forum can have its own URL and forums can be placed within other forums to facilitate subset discussion topics. You can control who can create, edit and administer forum posts with access controls and all content is searchable.

Comments

Encourage your community to get involved by enabling users to post discussion comments to any node. Permissions are governed by user roles and administrators can configure how comments are displayed on a site. Additionally, automated spam blocking can be turned on for comments and other user generated content to protect your site.

Fivestar ratings

Your users are looking for ways to express themselves - voting and ratings is one of the simplest ways to get them started. The Fivestar voting module adds a simple, configurable widget to content nodes, enabling visitors to quickly rate content or enter a vote on almost any context. Used together with Views, you can create pages of results and use ratings to sort content on your site.

RSS syndication and aggregation

Drupal offer native syndication and aggregation capabilities to enable you to publish content to readers via RSS feeds as well as gather syndicated content from third party sites for display directly within your site. Syndicate RSS feeds for content throughout your site, including the front page, views, content types, and taxonomy terms. Aggregator allows you to configure, filter and tag incoming feed content for display.

Simplify user management and administration

Configurable, role-based user permissions

Fine tune the use, security and administration of your Acquia Drupal website with roles. User permissions, including the ability to create and view content, as well as other capabilities, are granted and managed based on roles. Administrators can create as many roles, each with its own configurable, granular permission set, to meet their site needs.

Publishing workflow

Create moderation and approval workflows for content submission, both by site contributors and visitors, to ensure content review prior to publishing. Configure publishing workflows based on roles, quality of prior submissions, or other criteria.

Administration menu

Simplify administrative actions with this theme-independent administration interface. Access all menu items within one or two clicks. Re-organize and configure existing administration menu items or create new ones.

OpenID support

Allows visitors to your site to authenticate with their OpenID credentials.

Content translation

Automates translation of site content and interfaces into multiple enabled languages. Posts can be created and edited in multiple languages, with the ability to flag and update translations, as necessary. Administrators can filter content by language and translation status.

Improve content organization and discovery

Search

Content is indexed and scored for keyword and user search purposes. Additionally, Drupal administrators are given a number of scoring factors to adjust and improve search results, including keyword relevance, recency, and number of comments. Search results are returned to users based on appropriate roles and permissions.

Taxonomies, tagging, and tag clouds

Categorize content according to vocabularies defined by user defined tagging (folksonomies) and/or administrator defined terms (taxonomies). Vocabulary terms associated with a node or content type, can allow hierarchies of terms, and can be used to organize and filter content for display across the site. Create tag clouds organized by popularity or weight for rapid content discovery. RSS feeds can also be created per vocabulary term.

Google analytics

Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your Drupal website to monitor site usage, visitor behavior, traffic sources and content consumption.

Search engine optimization

Optimize your site for discovery by search engines and track how visitors are spending their time on your site. Generate clean human friendly URLs automatically for indexing by search engines. Create meta keywords and descriptions for content node indexing. Automate the addition of Google Analytics javascript tracking code to all of your site's pages.

Communicate securely with the Acquia Network

Acquia agent

Enables secure communication between your Drupal sites and the Acquia Network to monitor uptime, check for updates, and collect site information.

Site profile

Automates the collection of site information - operating system, database, webserver, and PHP versions, installed modules, and site modifications - to speed support communication and issue resolution.