General discussion

(I'm not sure this post doesn't belong to the support forum, but I'll try it here.)

I've just discovered Drupal and its community very recently and I like what I've seen so far. My job is to buid websites and up until now, I've been "hand-coding" PHP/MySQL websites. I'm now considering to build all my future websites using Drupal.

As some of these websites will require heavy customisation, I'll have to figure out the inner workings of Drupal and ways to "tweak" the code. But I'm not sure which version of Drupal I should start working with. Here's how I see it:

Version 4.6.5:

• PRO: stability
• PRO: numerous modules and themes available
• CON: short lifespan (as it will be replaced by 4.7.x)
• CON: lacks features (like free tagging) that I need for my projects

Advantages of 4.7.x:

• PRO: better than 4.6.5 (code, core features...)
• PRO: it's the future, spending time on it now will prove useful in the months/years to come
• PRO: I've just finished reading the book "Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" (excellent reading btw, see my other post about it) and it seems the Drupal version Robert T. Douglass is speaking about in the book is 4.7.x
• CON: still in beta, may be unstable
• CON: lacks modules (like image, image_assist...) that I need for my projects

My question:

Hi Guys,

This is just a quick announcement to say that I'm in the process of pulling together a framework for a new printed book & ebook for Drupal.

overview

The Working title is: Drupalicious - A Designers companion for theming Drupal sites.

Target audience: Non-programmers who understand the basics of HTML. Edition I will be predominantly for Drupal 4.7 and it's envisaged that there will be follow up editions with later versions of Drupal.

Language: English. + (hopefully) French. Italian. German. Spanish and others..

I'm doing a feasibility study at the moment to see if it's practical to produce multilingual versions of the same book, so I'm asking mother-tongue Drupallers to contact me if they would like to be included in the project mailing list.

I need the following for each language (translating from ENGLISH -> language):

1 x mother-tongue translator
1 x mother-tongue proof reader
1 x mother-tongue editor.

(mother-tongue = your primary language)

notes

• Experience in translation is obviously a great advantage, but, not essential. I have a background in localisation so there will be quality control mechanisms in place to safeguard against any language quality issues.
• An in-depth Knoweldge of PHP and Drupal is an advantage but not essential. the purpose of the book is to explain in very simple terms, how things work and you will be provided with a localisation kit & glossary to assist in the process.

I don't have much experience with Drupal but have been studying it and plan on using it for a current development. I have a project though for a client and I want a good idea what the CMS is for them and this particular project.

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Hello,

I have added a menu item in the drupal. But it is not either displayed in the menu or in the menu item list. What can be the reason.

With regards,
Baburaj

What is the best way to backup the content and settings for Drupal, and my data? I thinking here about how to rebuild a site quickly in case of a failure. I'm using Drupal on top of XAMPP and XAMPP has a backup script to save it's data. Not sure if that also saves the Drupal data?

I am pretty sure that the effect I have is related to my desktop machine. Maybe someone else has experienced the same problems.

It looks like the styles of all Drupal sites get heavily screwed up in my gecko based browsers (Firefox 1.5 and Camino on Max OSX 1.4.4). All the text becomes transparent and the rest of the site explodes. Screenshots: