Drupal Gardens is the latest online site creation tool.   It's not just any tool though - it's based on Drupal.  Not familar with Drupal?   In a nutshell, Drupal is becoming a phenominon because of its power, flexibility, rapid innovation, community and low cost.  Looking at the landscape today, it's clear why Drupal is taking off.

Site owners and builders across the globe are using small site building services like Wordpress, Joomla, Squarespace, Expression Engine etc, as well as enterprise services like Jive, Documentum, Sharepoint, etc.    In doing so, they're hitting hitting walls.  That is, either the software doesnt offer the features they need, or adding features causes performance and scalability issues.  Additionally there's a cost concern for bigger products like Jive, Sharepoint, etc., where implementation and maintenence costs can be 10 to 100x the cost of Drupal. Last, for both small and large organizations, when one of these other services fails to deliver, migration to another platform is time consuming, costly, and scary.
In contrast, Drupal Gardens is built to deploy rapid, feature rich sites.  Its one of the few packages out their that is considered a content management system, a site building tool, and a development framework. People are building full features social netowrking platforms in Drupal Gardens in very little time - for free.  If over time, traffic or storage demands increase, customers can upgrade to a paid plan which start at $8.25 a month.  Last, unlike any other service, if you find the need to have a feature that's not in DrupalGardens, you can simply export your site and then take advantage of Drupal's development framework to carve you own module.  So what does this mean for you?

To put it simply, Drupal Gardens offers more powerful features than any of its competitors, competitive pricing, and complete flexibiiltiy, and no lockins.  We think this is an incredible deal and hope you do to.  Not convinced, give it a try for yourself, It's free.