I used drupal as I liked the look and the way it worked, I haven’t added anything great to it in module wise infact I mainly did my own as I could never get the drupal modules to work.
Its great as I have linked it with my new forum and I give all my members that hit over 50 posts a free blog on the drupal account, ok the site is new and we will have to see how things go but for just over two weeks from the full revamp of my site I am well pleased.
Here's a new site I'm working on.
I'm interested in feedback, especially from those of you on Win IE, as to how the site looks, functions, etc...
The site is supposed to have a dropshadow border on each side and should be centered. I've had a bit of trouble with those two aspects in IE. http://www.coloradobeernews.com/drupal/
Thanks,
J
Hello All,
I started the Drupal path some months ago after working my way through several Content Mangement Systems. Like most folks, I grabbed as many modules as I could work with. I decide to shoot for the 4.7 release (instead of working with a stable release), and have had to spend many tedious hours trying to make things work. Yes, it has caused a lot of grief to work with a buggy system and eagerly check the CVS repository several times a day to see if anyone had fixed these bugs yet. At the same time, I have learned LOTS about how Drupal works as I have tried to debug some of this stuff myself.
Sometime over the last month light bulbs began to pop up. I discovered the power of Taxonomy. Then I discovered how easy it is to define innumerable regions in my theme so I could make the pages look the way I wanted them and merge several nodes together on the same page. The next thing you know, I was dropping modules like hot potatoes. I didn't need most of them and they were slowing my site down. The only add-on modules I have found to be "must haves" are Event and Flexinode. I also use the Audio module and the Acid-Free module (along with Filemanager) on some sites but have dispensed with the rest.
Drupal is not easy. There is a huge amount to learn and it takes awhile to really understand how it works. I know there is a lot of functionality yet to be assimilated but... once it starts to make sense, WOW. It really is an incredible system. The community here is incredible also. Everything I have gleaned has come from the discussions here and the handbooks. Thank you all very, very much.