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Acquia Drupal Starter Kits # Acquia Drupal Starter Kits Accelerate your time to market with Acquia Drupal Starter Kits — best-in-class Drupal modules, curated and maintained by Acquia. 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[Try Acquia Drupal Starter Kits Now](/about-us/contact/acquia-cms-request-a-demo) Features Acquia Drupal Starter Kits Offers Acquia Drupal Starter Kits provides a vast feature library by combining the best of Drupal with solutions exclusive to Acquia. Ease of Use Turnkey CMS available on day one of installation. Pre-selected CMS modules that are secure and performant. Pre-configured content types and workflows. Component based content assembly model. Visual page builder with drag and drop tools. Customizable UI Kit with over 70 starter components. Responsive design with device level breakpoints. WCAG 2.0 AA compatible components. Multilingual support for over 100 languages. Editorial options to enforce accessible content creation. Centralized content creation for numerous users. Users can access your content on any digital device. Content workflow decoupled from code deployment. Customizable dashboards for content authors, editors. Security Pre-selected security configuration. 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