By novaats on

Hi,

I've been floating around here for a while now, trying to come up with my own social networking site. I've established that I like Drupal and I want to use it, however I'm really struggling at the moment.

What I would like to know is, how does anyone get help with Drupal? I'm running a non-profit organisation (like a lot of people it seems) so I can't afford to pay anyone at this time as I'm footing the hosting bills out of my own pocket. I'm trying to install modules by myself and I've had some great advice - Michelle's site was a lot of help was was the DrupalSN site but really it's like pulling teeth at the moment. I feel like if I can find someone to help they could sort my problems in an hour or two whereas it's going to take 12 months or work for me to do this myself.

Anyway enough waffle.... in summary, where are these people!?!?! :)

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WorldFallz commented

...where are these people!

Pretty much here, in the forums, and in http://drupal.org/irc.

You're best bet is to post module specific questions/issues to the module's issue queue and other questions/issues to the forums. See http://drupal.org/forum-posting for useful tips that will increase the likelihood of getting a response.

Most importantly be patient with yourself-- drupal does have a learning curve. You'll get there.

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michelle
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My social networking site is a hobby so I couldn't afford to hire anyone, either. I've learned what I have by being persistant, digging in, researching, asking folks on IRC when I really get stuck, and just generally working at it. When I figured stuff out, I put it on my site or put it into the modules I maintain.

There's two currencies around here: time and money. If you don't have the money, you spend time. :)

Michelle

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novaats commented

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll keep plugging away but I'll keep IRC in mind (I never used it before so it didn't occur to me).

P.S. Like I said thanks Michelle - even though you couldn't finish your book it was still a great help - with the masses of modules about it's difficult to know where to start so your list of contributed modules was a good starting point for me.