About Drupal
Drupal is an open source, free content management system. It allows you to create and edit original content, organize it, limit access to certain users, and track who is accessing the site. It consists of a set of core features, and may be expanded by adding modules.
It is based on a series of roles and permissions. You may create users who belong to one or more roles. Each of these roles may have permission to view or maintain different areas of the site.
These are the roles we use, in order of lowest to highest privileges:
- Ordinary users who are not logged in have the anonymous user role.
- Users who are logged in have the authenticated user role.
- Users with the manage role can maintain most content and add new users.
- Users with the dev role can add new features and edit menus.
- Users with the admin role can add and update modules.
It will not be necessary to add additional roles or users for this simple site. The general public will all be considered anonymous users.
