Drupal CMS CHAHEC chose Drupal CMS for its website.  Drupal is: Open source (free to use - no license fees) Popular (safe and easy to find helpers for), and Very powerful (there are few things done on the web that Drupal cannot do). By upgrading your AHEC site to Drupal, you free your organization from dependency on any one coder or company, and open the door to growing your site over time as you position it to bear more of the weight of promoting and extending the services your AHEC provides. Editing Pages At the top of the left column is an "editor's view" of the home page of CHAHEC. Like most WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editors, there is a toolbar with formatting options, a display of content with text styles, links and images showing as they should.  Drupal's editor allows the user to upload images, resize them to fit the available space, and postiion them with borders and space to suit.  Different Input Formats are available based on what choices the site administrator wants to make available to users. For example, an email form should not have "Full HTML" - simple text input is fine.

Different Types of Content: Pages, Events, People, etc.

Above is a list of content (in Drupal, each piece of content is called a "node"). in update order. Different content has different node types.  For example,  an "Open Event" shows up on the calendar and lists of events, but is not a store product. It has start and end dates and times, a place for a title, description, and picture, even information about the venue.  All "Open Events" can be listed, sorted, and managed together. 

"Event Registrations" are store products.  They have costs and are processed through the shopping cart.  CHAHEC uses two kinds of registrations: group and individual.

Board Member Profiles are special page types with specially formatted images, data areas and layout so that all pages match. The Board Members page shows a list of all Board Member profiles, with some header information up top, sorted by position heirarchy. 

The "content list" above is a management tool.  By clicking on the left checkboxes of multiple "nodes", the content manager can unpublish sections of contect (no longer visible to people who are not logged in with sufficient permission), delete content, and perform other operations. 

Any Content Management System (like Joomla or Wordpress) works like this, though they do not support separately configurable content types the way Drupal does. 

For more information about what Drupal is and why it is free to usel, visit http://gamefacewebdesign.com/drupal.