General discussion

Hi everyone,

after having spent years with the community of some other open source content management system (I am not giving out names here, I think that would be utterly unfair to anybody), I ran into some kind of stagnation with that system, althought it is extremely flexible and quite clever, too.

I had "this Drupal" in the back of my head however for years, but never really gave it a chance. I couldn't figure out how it could work for me, also I was fightened to death by this taxonomy thing, and generally, how to make things work - e.g. menus, totally esoteric to me intitially. If you are used to some more "linear" approach of content management one could be a bit irritated by all this vocabulary and taxonomy babbleing... (which certainly does not mean that Drupal doesn't have a "linear" approach - today I find it to be the most straight forward thing on this planet)

For anyone new to Drupal: do not dispair, work your way through it, it is not as complicated as it might seem in the first place. In fact, you are in the right spot already, Drupal.org is an amazing place where you will find ALL the answers to ALL of your questions, just keep diggin' here! There are gold nuggets all over the place. Just as a question on the side to whom might now: how many nodes does Drupal.org have by now? It seams an entire GALAXY!

I really would like to say a BIG hello and THANK YOU to anybody around here who help with Drupal, and after spending about 2 weeks hanging out here, reading my way through the tons of material and forum posts and contributions, and modules and themeing stuff... I know that I have come to the right place. I have come to a true Garden of Eden.

Hi,

I have a general question concerning how long-time Drupal users tackle problems of customization.

I come from a background of few years of personal blogging and some limited experience in setting up "brochure" websites (just to borrow the terminology I saw on Civicspace) in a non-professional capacity, using Wordpress, Movabletype, phpBB and B2evolution. In the past, if I needed some specific functionality (or customizations) on top of the core installation, this meant one or both of
1) searching for some existing modules/plugins,
2) CSS/PHP coding to fit the modules into existing templates.

A few months ago, I decided to look into Drupal (after comparing it with Mambo in fact) in preparation for 3 community websites that I will be helping to set up. After much research, I feel this is the right tool for the sites in question. However, recently I posted a question on this forum asking how to generate a drop-down style user list. The responses I got are very useful and I am almost done (except for the CSS part) by the way. Given my experience with other blogging tools, it seems a little strange that for something "relatively simple", I still need to go the the extent of using MySQL queries? As in, there are no existing functions which can perhaps do 80% of the functionality, for example (with the remaining done through additional PHP)?

My question is then, and mainly aiming at the experienced Drupal users, is this a common situation as far as customization is concerned?

In the past 24hrs I have added img_assist module and and inline.module(cvs) in an effort to add inline images to posts.

I have disabled and removed the inline module as It didnt seem to wnat to play the game and img_assist performing beyond expectation.

I installed this new module on my site http://capmex.biz and it seems to be working just fine, blocking only spambots. But after reading in another forum reports about real users being blocked, I'm not so sure if it's completely safe to use it.

I would like to ask other members, specially those with privacy settings or firewalls, to visit my site and check if they are not blocked by the module. In case someone gets blocked, please post here with details about your user agent, platform, etc.

Outside of the preinstalled ones ofcourse:)

Personally for me, i've got to have the
Taxonomy menu
taxonomy_multi_edit

I have to have these two, as it makes things alot easier

Hello, I am thinking of penetrating the chinese market with a drupal solution, even though I don't speak the language.

Is drupal (4.7) totally ready for a website in chinese ?

Cheers,