I've posted re drupal.org being "unsexy", suggesting images could help, including from people who contribute modules. Maybe should have posted here in Documentation, rather than documents and media.
Noted I've used Joomla, where the site is a whole lot llvelier, never mind the merits or otherwise of the cms itself.
Just reading tutorial on using Views. This was written to include images, but there are no images - as not allowed by drupal.
So, the page looks far duller than it might, and it's harder to learn from the tutorial.
I've seen there's section on Drupal marketing - but seems to me that Drupal is shooting itself in the foot with the site.
I was put off using Drupal when first looked at it a couple of years ago, partly by the unsexy site, and by finding Drupal sites didn't look like the kind I wanted to make; built couple of sites with Mambo and, later, Joomla.
Now, to Drupal as taxonomy etc looks ideal for a site I may make; also as read of Drupal 5.1 being an improvement, and finding that are indeed some real snazzy Drupal sites - albeit drupal.org is not one of them!
I hope, then, it may be possible to enable more use of images in the site, including in tutorials.
Trying to wrap my head around guff like nodes, trees, taxonomy terms, vocabularies, could be helped a fair bit by images I think.
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I agree
This is a problem with Open Source in general, but I think it is seriously hindering pickup of drupal. It's never been sexy, and unfortunately that what most people want. The themes are all right, but it's quite difficult for someone with no computer skills to be able to make it look nice. And of course, if things arent easy and don't look nice...
The Devil's Advocate
Actually, images are not forbidden (see my book below), they just aren't hosted on Drupal.org.
Now, take a look at some of the node numbers in the recent posts, for example, this one is 122,225. Imagine if 10% of all posts included only 200kb of pictures. That alone means the site would grow by over 2GB. Then imagine the additional retrieval and display time for a site that can already be rather slow at times. Disk space and bandwidth are not free.
I agree that some of the documentation could definitely be improved with a few pictures, especially tutorial type sections. But, one must be prudent with their use in order to minimize glut.
Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Site Design Notes
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