Submitted by Scott (not verified) on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 14:56.
Hi Tom,
Well, count me as another who is enjoying your first lynda.com training title. Is there a way to see your working Table of Contents? Here are my thoughts without seeing it, anyway:
1. Advanced Theme Chapter
In choosing a CMS, my choice ended up coming down between Drupal and Joomla. It was finding out about the theming possibilities in Drupal that made my choice, since the limited depth of navigation in Joomla seemed really limiting to me, but the ease and richness of creating and changing themes seemed better at first glance. I'm a long time programmer, but I have always enjoyed dabbling in design.
Anyway, if you have any room to do a more advanced chapter on themes, that would be one I would enjoy. Is there a way, for instance, that we can set up a site to let a user choose between themes (ala Drupal Zen Garden). On my site (which is currently a Wordpress blog), I've got three little color dots that you can click to recolor the site and get a different banner picture. I'm all for giving users a choice.
2. More programming content
I know this is mostly for people who don't want to program as much, but I think it would be helpful to have a couple more chapters of how to tie things together in creative ways, even if it requires code to do it, just to show us newbies an idea of how to tackle the various modules in creative ways.
As a part of this, I'd like to find an idea of what parts of Drupal have remained fairly static, and what has had to change (especially from 5 to 6, since I know the materials on themes always make a big point of determining which one you are using). I know there would be a danger of this becoming dated, but I guess if you could give an approach to looking at Drupal and not doing stuff so far under the hood that you end up having a bunch of rewrites and versions when the next version of Drupal arrives.
3. Organizing and maintaining a more complex Drupal site
Maybe how to make a "site of Drupal sites". I would ultimately like to have my site be a, for lack of a better term, portal, to several sites I am planning to build with Drupal. I would like each of these "subDrops" to have a different theme, but have some things in common (maybe a graphic, or something). In any case, any issues, tips and tricks for creating and maintaining more complex Drupal sites would be cool for me.
Hi Tom,
Well, count me as another who is enjoying your first lynda.com training title. Is there a way to see your working Table of Contents? Here are my thoughts without seeing it, anyway:
1. Advanced Theme Chapter
In choosing a CMS, my choice ended up coming down between Drupal and Joomla. It was finding out about the theming possibilities in Drupal that made my choice, since the limited depth of navigation in Joomla seemed really limiting to me, but the ease and richness of creating and changing themes seemed better at first glance. I'm a long time programmer, but I have always enjoyed dabbling in design.
Anyway, if you have any room to do a more advanced chapter on themes, that would be one I would enjoy. Is there a way, for instance, that we can set up a site to let a user choose between themes (ala Drupal Zen Garden). On my site (which is currently a Wordpress blog), I've got three little color dots that you can click to recolor the site and get a different banner picture. I'm all for giving users a choice.
2. More programming content
I know this is mostly for people who don't want to program as much, but I think it would be helpful to have a couple more chapters of how to tie things together in creative ways, even if it requires code to do it, just to show us newbies an idea of how to tackle the various modules in creative ways.
As a part of this, I'd like to find an idea of what parts of Drupal have remained fairly static, and what has had to change (especially from 5 to 6, since I know the materials on themes always make a big point of determining which one you are using). I know there would be a danger of this becoming dated, but I guess if you could give an approach to looking at Drupal and not doing stuff so far under the hood that you end up having a bunch of rewrites and versions when the next version of Drupal arrives.
3. Organizing and maintaining a more complex Drupal site
Maybe how to make a "site of Drupal sites". I would ultimately like to have my site be a, for lack of a better term, portal, to several sites I am planning to build with Drupal. I would like each of these "subDrops" to have a different theme, but have some things in common (maybe a graphic, or something). In any case, any issues, tips and tricks for creating and maintaining more complex Drupal sites would be cool for me.
Thanks for listening,
Scott Keller
Drupal newbie