Hi all,
First of all, I'm very new to Drupal - but I have been working hard to understand the basics during the last 14 days. I've been working with it several hours daily in order to make my time with Drupal easier, and with my limited knowledge to PHP but quite good knowledge with HTML, I feel it is much easier now than it was just a few days ago.
I'm very happy with Drupal, eventhough it took me a short while to figure out the installation - which is very odd and tough compared with the otherwise userfriendly backend of the CMS. I have failed to understand why the installation has to be this cryptic - but it works if you read the manual - and that's good enough for me - at least.
Straight after the installation, I installed a Danish translation, and the i18n module - because I wanted to make my website multi-lingual. The i18n module is just a pain to install. You have to patch some files - and if you don't know how to do this (well you have to be a die-hard coder to know this) you can get it from the authors sandbox. It's quite nice - but not userfriendly at all. However I managed to find the patched files from the author - and this of course didn't work quite well in the beginning. I kept getting the "warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by..." because the end of the files contained an empty line. Annoying? Yes Hard to a solution? No (Drupal forum works very well). Patching files should either A) Be easier, B) Not nessecary, C) Better documented.