Hi
I have been a Joomla man for over 5 years, am quite experienced and have developed my own extensions. I also hand code my own bespoke templates.
I want to learn Drupal but it seems it is a completely different and (at the moment) more complicated way of doing things so I have a learning curve.
But I will have some questions, I was wondering if anyone could help.
My first one is, When would one define Views/Content Types compared to developing a new module and module template/output?
In Drupal I have found the add-on Views and Custom Fields, and I can see that I can create a custom module this way, by adding in custom fields, then overriding the view for it to display my own HTML. Then to add content for that I can just click Add Content and fill in the fields. This is an example for some database/listing module of course with multiple data with same fields.
BUT I could have also done the above with some custom HTML module and WYSIWYG editor couldn't I, like in Joomla?
OR I could have created a bespoke module with its own template/output to put this content in, if was maybe some dynamic content.