Ok... I've been fiddling around with drupal now for almost 2 months. I really like many of its cool features. BUT what i really dont get is, why i cant seem to get a pretty "simple" site done in easy steps.
For example: i want a certain box (little text with image... whatever) to appear on the frontpage but not in the CONTENT area but somewhere else - is it really the simplest way of doing it:
1. create a "page" content
2. create a "block from node"
3. direct the block into the area
4. fiddle around with the wheight till it appears there
and if its not just a simple "page" but a different node i have to build a PHP template from it and style it with extra css
in addition it seems sooo weird, not to be able to make simple querries for data and place the field wherever i want it to. selfbuild querries integrated in PHP wont work anyway, because drupal keeps changing around the tables in the database (not that this would help a lot to speed up drupal... its really really slow)
i am really frustrated at the moment. i started drupal with a hopeful smile on my face but now it vanished completely. one solved problem seems to produce 2 new ones. many modules seem to be programmed good, but also many modules have many many bugs. I know (!) this is hard and not even paid work, programming this stuff - but still... it seems i have to fix something anytime i add a module.