By aytreeid on
I have an "old" site I did in D5; needs to be brought up to date but I don't have the time to figure out how to upgrade to 7. I'd love to just let someone with experience deal with it if I can afford to.
Once it's upgraded, I'll install a new theme, or we can negotiate for you to do it.
If you'd like to take a look at the site and give me a bid, please email through my username.
Thanks!
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Ready to get it done!
I have been working in the field for half a decade and I am very familiar with Drupal development and maintenance.
I can update your Drupal installation easily and make sure this won't have any negative effects on your website at all.
Since I can't figure out how to contact you, you can just shoot me an (even blank) e-mail at contact [@] emedara [.] com and I'll begin working on your task immediately.
Regards,
Edward M. @ Emedara Studio
Since I can't figure out how
You can click on a person's username, and usually there will be a 'contact' tab you can click to send the user an email. Some people have this disabled, but in this case, the OP does allow for contact through his contact form.
Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.
I somehow managed to miss
I somehow managed to miss this one — thanks! :)
This is the first post
This is the first post EdwardM contributed to drupal.org. In 5 years of Drupal experience that seems near-impossible: were you contributing under a different user name? This is a radically different proposition than a major version upgrade on an old unmaintained Wordpress site (I have done both, Drupal major version upgrades are notoriously likely to turn into nightmares: your Emedara Studio website, admirable as it is, seems more focussed on WP than Drupal).
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Impressive
You have no idea of the size, features, modules used and custom code yet you can say you can upgrade easily?
Also, 5 years 'in the field' yet you don't know how to contact someone on d.o.?
Please.
J.
TrainingCloud.io - Drupal Training with a Heart.
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Normally I would delete comments of the type 'i can do this' (per this forum's explicit guidelines), but lets use this as a teachable moment.
Seems like nothing more than https://drupal.org/node/2070265#comment-7777119 just waiting to happen.
Anyone who claims to be experienced with drupal for 'years' and has no posts on drupal.org is likely full of baloney. And that's an easy one to sniff out.
A handful of clarifications
Seems like I'm getting flamed quite a lot, and I apologize if I upset anyone.
First of all, judging by the clients that I have worked with, I think it's clear to everybody that I am no scammer.
In my first comment here I mentioned an experience of over 5 years in the field. I was referring to the web design field; this includes the time I spent working for design agencies before I started mine, time which I spent building websites that run on a variety of CMS — including Drupal.
I have indeed not worked with Drupal for 5 straight years and, as you can see from my website, my specialization is in WordPress and eCommerce (and I work with a small team to carry out branding tasks and some other assignments). However, I did work with Drupal in the past on various client projects, and I am familiar with the CMS and its theming system.
I definitely would not have offered to do the task if I wasn't sure I can deliver quality work. If there was any possibility that I'd leave the client with a broken site, I would have just not replied to the job.
I apologize for my ignorance regarding this forum, but I believe you can understand that I can't be active on the community forums of every platform that I work with.
I also apologize if my first post mislead anyone into thinking that I'm a Drupal veteran — I am not. But this doesn't change the fact that I am confident enough in my experience with it to think that I can satisfy OP's needs.
I wish you all a great day and a productive week,
Edward M.
You're one up on me then.
You're one up on me then. I've been using Drupal for near 6 years continuously, and I wouldn't feel confident telling someone I could upgrade their site without any issues whatsoever. There are too many ways to lose functionality with each major issue upgrade, and there are two upgrades here. The odds of them being able to continue with the exact same functionality they've had is very low.
Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.
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One of the main problems of not being a veteran is that you don't know what you don't know.... I believe your confidence is genuine, but that's precisely because you're basing it on your overall experience and not drupal experience.
The fact is the upgrade process from one major drupal version to another is a known pain point. The d6 to d7 upgrade has brought experienced drupal site builders and developers to their knees. Never mind trying to go from d5 to d7 .... which also can't be done directly btw. IMO rebuilding is the only way to go but then only an experienced drupal dev/builder would know that... that pesky 'you don't know what you don't know' again.
Sorry that it seems we're flaming... this is a sensitive issue for us. Lots of devs have been jumping on the drupal bandwagon lately and creating lots of unhappy clients via the situation jay described in the post I linked which gives us all a black eye. You just happen to be the latest one to place this particular straw on the proverbial camel's back.
Rebuild
I would recommend that you rebuild the site and bring over your content rather than try and upgrade from D5 to D7. Lot depends on core and contributed modules you used but I'm sure many modules would have depreciated and lot of new features are there in D7.
When I posted, what I had in
HI EdwardM
When I posted, what I had in mind was to head off the kind of problems not only for client but also for you as developer set out in the excellent post by Jaypan which WorldFallz linked. If you want to get into doing Drupal more, welcome. There is money to be made and shortage of skills. But it does take a while and a Drupal job like this one definitely has the potential to come back and bite everyone until you have some really solid Drupal experience, not just building or tweaking a few relatively simple sites. Doing a couple of jobs like this major version upgrade for a low rate or for friends, without a firm deadline, is an excellent way to get more complex Drupal experience under your belt, but is less painful if you do not over-promise either to yourself or the client.
People can safely start making those kinds of promises (but probably never do make them) after they have tried a few major version upgrades. The post linked https://drupal.org/node/2070265#comment-7777119 above must have taken some care to write, and definitely repays careful study before you start. If you approach it that way, you will get help here if you hit problems. Some major version upgrades go fine, but not many, and the rebuild approach mentioned by bpocanada is pretty normal among experienced Drupallers because we have all been bitten by this problem at some point.
John
Digit Professionals specialising in Drupal, WordPress & CiviCRM support for publishers in non-profit and related sectors
Got my company
THANK YOU EVERYONE who has emailed and bid on this project. I've had much interest from many companies, and will choose one from that list.
I especially appreciate the suggestion to build a D7 and migrate the data. I have no idea how to do that myself, so will be hiring one of the developers who has already emailed.
So my search was a success, and this request is NOW CLOSED.
Thanks!