About the First Edition | Front End Drupal

About the First Edition | Front End Drupal: "Front End Drupal fills this sizable marketplace gap by focusing on visual and interactive design, rather than module development. Two leading Drupal developers systematically cover Drupal customization with behaviors, themes, and templates. Readers will master each layout element needed to style Drupal sites, and learn how to take full advantage of Drupal's powerful templating system. The book also contains several start-to-finish case studies for creating and customizing a wide range of Drupal sites, from scratch. Front End Drupal will contain a foreword by the founder and community lead of the Drupal project, Dries Buytaert."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: "Drupal soon emerged as the best option. WordPress was too limited in its abilites, and Joomla! was considered not as SEO friendly. Drupal was given the highest marks by almost every writer we encountered. Ultimately we chose Drupal because it provides:

A free, open source platform
A secure and highly extensible framework
A large and friendly community for support and guidance
Existing modules for almost every feature we wanted
Starting from Scratch
When we began this project, none of the team had any experience with Drupal (and the developer had only just learned php), so we relied heavily on the extremely helpful Drupal community. The forums were an invaluable resource throughout development, without which this project would not have been possible. Because its a volunteer community we made sure to give back help whenever we could. The Post-installation forum is a great place a beginner can help out other beginners, and there is no greater way to learn than to try and teach."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: " It was soon decided that having complete control over the software and the server would be a better long term option for our agency, and so we narrowed the list down to the "big three" of Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla!

With the help of many blog posts and some poking around on http://cmsmatrix.org/, Drupal soon emerged as the best option. WordPress was too limited in its abilites, and Joomla! was considered not as SEO friendly. Drupal was given the highest marks by almost every writer we encountered. Ultimately we chose Drupal because it provides:"

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Using Drupal vs Buying Scripts Written in PHP | drupal.org

Using Drupal vs Buying Scripts Written in PHP | drupal.org: "Most of those scripts lack of quality. They are not wel documented and its a torture to modify code for your further needs. But drupal is very well documented and its pretty easy to modify functions without touching to the core
- Most of those scripts are not opensource so modifying site may cause licence problems in future but you can't have such problem with drupal
- Number of people that develop those scripts are limited so you won't get many updates.
- Mostly those scripts are designed for one purpose so its hard to add new functions"

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BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups

BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups: "We are now witnessing on the one hand the creation of more complex sites using WordPress with integration with social web and BuddyPress (a fully functional community website installation profile), and on the other hand a much more user friendly version 7 of Drupal and lots of pre-packaged products as OpenAtrium and OpenPublish.

With members of WordPress/BuddyPress community I lauch a meeting to have panel (community and real life usecase). More than 100 peop"

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BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups

BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups: "We are now witnessing on the one hand the creation of more complex sites using WordPress with integration with social web and BuddyPress (a fully functional community website installation profile), and on the other hand a much more user friendly version 7 of Drupal and lots of pre-packaged products as OpenAtrium and OpenPublish.

With members of WordPress/BuddyPress community I lauch a meeting to have panel (community and real life usecase). More than 100 peop"

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Drupal vs BuddyPress as a Social Networking site | drupal.org

Drupal vs BuddyPress as a Social Networking site | drupal.org: "Drupal, probably more so than any package listed, is capable of being the premier choice for a social network site. It really all depends on what modules are developed, and that depends on those who have the good hearts and the know-how to create those modules.

If I had the time and the php knowledge, I'd be right there with them, building modules. Alas, neither time nor training is mine at the moment. I don't know what the technical limits of Drupal are (and ALL software has limitations), but I'd hazard a guess that most if not all of the modules needed to make such a site could be developed if someone was so inclined.

I don't know about the current state of Dolphin, but last time I was looking at it, it was buggy and lacking some necessary components unless you were willing to pay for them"

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