Hey, Scott -- thanks for the intriguing idea. I'll have to think about it... but at first glance I don't know how one would do such a course. The difficulties in Drupal administration don't come from the modules per se -- that is, no one module is easier to maintain than another. (Well, not by much. I suppose it's easier to maintain static pages than a news feed, if only because news feeds occasionally disappear and have to be changed or removed. But that's minor.)
Drupal maintenance is hard, IMHO, mostly because of the *updates*. It's not an easy process, and time marches on for all modules, great and small alike.
But Lynda.com is actually soliciting opinions for a course that sounds a *lot* like what you're talking about. It'd be a general CMS "pre-requisite" course on maintenance tasks common to Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc. See this thread and please add your comments.
Hey, Scott -- thanks for the intriguing idea. I'll have to think about it... but at first glance I don't know how one would do such a course. The difficulties in Drupal administration don't come from the modules per se -- that is, no one module is easier to maintain than another. (Well, not by much. I suppose it's easier to maintain static pages than a news feed, if only because news feeds occasionally disappear and have to be changed or removed. But that's minor.)
Drupal maintenance is hard, IMHO, mostly because of the *updates*. It's not an easy process, and time marches on for all modules, great and small alike.
But Lynda.com is actually soliciting opinions for a course that sounds a *lot* like what you're talking about. It'd be a general CMS "pre-requisite" course on maintenance tasks common to Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc. See this thread and please add your comments.
Thanks again!