Investigation,Implementation and Installation of a Content Management System : Focus on Drupal

Abstract

This thesis is meant to provide an alternative solution to implementing a content management system in an European Union project, OpenKvarken co-ordinated by Vaasa Centre of Open source solutions. The target was to implement a more scalable, robust and flexible system as compared to initially implemented system which cost them losing their entire database when the system couldn’t meet up with their demands. It therefore becomes inevitable to get a more reliable free and open source content management system. In order to resolve this, Drupal being an open source content management system will be the focus of the study. It will be thoroughly researched in to based on VCOSS specifications which are mainly getting a framework that is capable of managing a web portal with features specified, web booking, web shop and an intranet system for collaboration within an organisation. The output from this thesis will determine if Drupal will be used as the primary CMS of OpenKvarken or not.