Hi
I have just dumped my existing host fasthosts due to billing issues.
I have a friend who rents a web server (running Coas linux distro), so I have moved onto his server.
I am going to be putting together a personal site, on my old site (running a asp cms) Gallery, Blog (journel), News, Articles, Links all in nice directory structures.
It is basically similar features to a generic portal site, but for one user.
I have looked at Joomla and Drupal (the only 2 that met my short list) and decided on Drupal. I have given 4.6 a test and now am playing with 4.7rc1 and have a few questions.
I will be starting with a complete blank site. I have bug fixing skills for php (I understand the basic sytax and logic), but developed asp, .net websites (cms for the last 3 years) for the last 6 years.
What is the estimated release schedule/roadmap for 4.7, how many release candidates ?
I know there are some features lacking that I need (like images), but will wait if 4.7release is not too far on the horison.
I will be wanting to do some customisation. I have found the documentation on snippet creation (http://drupal.org/node/39282) and slowing trying to understand it, not sure of why these are snippets and not modules for blocks etc.
I will want the frontpage to display the latest x items of any type, with a snippet and thumbnail if it exists, to replace the promote to front feature.