General discussion

When trying to determine an hourly rate, I've noticed that Drupal rates are all over the board. I recognize that your rate should be "whatever you're worth," but sometimes that's not as easy as others make it out to be. I also recognize that experience, proficiency, creativity, etc. are all over the board and also affect rates.

So, I decided to make a quick survey (3 questions, and a comment box if you wish) to see what everyone charges, what type of dev they are, and how they feel about their rate. (Used the Drupal-powered webform.com.)

First, hello Drupal community nice to meet you all! I am a new Drupal user and I have been using it for 2 solid days now and all I can say is WOW.

I say this because I was blown away by Drupal. After learning about content types, taxonmy, roles, permission, views, webform, Ctools and Panels, I was just amazed how much a person can do without even writing any code. With these modules, you can pretty much create whatever. I have not looked at the graphic/chart ones yet, but I am sure there is probably a Google chart one out there or something like it.

I've setup a web site which support English and Chinese. And I install a blog entry module. Currently I have now problem to add my new blog entry in English and then translate it into Chinese. All the blog articles will be in for example, www.mysite.com/blog. Then I create a menu called "Blog" which link to this url. And I translate the menu to Chinese too. Now here comes my problem, when I click this menu no matter which language I select, all the blog entries (in both language) will be shown.

Hello,

Looks like starting with Drupal 7, the approach to judging whether the CMS is in production state stopped to work.

Drupal 7 is now 7.12, but it's still useless for production sites. The problem is in modules. Core functions might have be well tested and work as expected. But most popular modules are still not ready, now at 7.12 state.

Drupal 6 works extremely fine with me. I have collected all the required modules, and they are stable enough. Drupal 7 is a terrible mess, since most modules I need are either in alpha/dev (if you're lucky, in beta) or simply do not exist.

To name a few: Facebook interface modules; OG-related; eCommerce; ratings (namely, Fivestar) etc etc. With D6 I install the module and it works. With D7 I install module and study, cursing everything, numerous issues and blog posts to find magic means to harness the damned thing.

I suggest Drupal core developers, now that version 8 is approaching, to change the method of determining whether the CMS is ready. Making core installation fixed and polished isn't enough. Gather stats, look at what external modules are really ready for use and only then go drums and fanfares.

Currently, when I look for proper words to depict Drupal 7 state, I feel uncertain only with adjectives: whether to name it 'major fail' or 'epic fail'.

There are hundreds of modules and themes and every one of them wants to introduce there module or theme or features or just help starters. Registered users should be allowed to post videos from YouTube or other sources and link them on Drupal.org/ ScreenCast???

This is going to be cool for all users out there and all those who are making complex modules will be able to produce videos and promote there efforts.

Support this idea by sharing with your friends on twitter or facebook or googe plus etc...

My Comments:

Hi,

I'm new to Drupal. I'm testing it out and was wondering if anyone can recommend a good Drupal book. I'm looking for a Tutorial/How To Book. Going over Drupal concepts, building a website, etc. Not really looking for a technical reference book at this point

Thanks,
Tony