As Drupal can be used for many different types of websites like, Community web portals, Discussion sites, Corporate web sites, Intranet applications, Personal web sites or blogs, E-commerce applications, Resource directories and Social Networking sites. It comes with a large set of features to enable it to be used for many types of applications.

You can add extra functionality to your Drupal site with Modules. The standard install of Drupal comes with many modules that can be enabled via Administer > Site Building > Modules. There are also many 3rd party modules available from the drupal.org site. Being opensource, there is a large community of people world-wide who contribute themes and modules for Drupal that are free to use.

Once you have your Drupal site up and running, the first thing you will most likely want to do is change the look of the site to suit your needs. Fortunately Drupal uses themes, which simplifies the process. There are many themes available for download from the drupal.org site and many other sites. Being opensource, there is a large community of people world-wide who contribute theme and modules that are free to use.

Drupal 5.3 has been released by the good people at drupal.org and can be downloaded from the Drupal project download section. This is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs, as well as some security vulnerabilities.

It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to Drupal 5.3, to avoid leaving your site open to exploits through the security vulnerabilities of earlier versions.