NYC Drupal Training
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- Gordy22
Any of you guys taken any Drupal training courses in the NYC area?
Need to go on one, beginner / intermediate.
Any help greatly appreciated.
- ********0
don't do it, stick with Wordpress
- ukit0
Drupal has capabilities far beyond WordPress.
However, I have to say I found it less than intuitive to learn
- nosaj0
It's true, but super rewarding once you start getting a hang of it. Views, Image Cache, CCK - all really great.
- ukit0
You may be right
- ********0
ukit is right, far, far, far less intuitive
- manonthestreet0
I don't think it can be said that 'it's less intuitive'.
They are very different. Wordpress is a blogging platform that is pretty much ready to go out of the box, and powerful enough to be used for things other than blogging.
Drupal is a content management framework.
I think Wordpress is designed for ease of end user usage, where Drupal is designed for scalability. You need to have a frame of mind of a programmer for drupal, but once the lightbulb goes off it's great.
I do not know about NYC classes, and wouldn't recommend that over just plain installing, themeing, and trying to create views and different ways to use the tool to handle your content.
- it could be argued that WP has evolved into a CMS Framework as well. Just depends on how you operate********
- Out of the box, I agree with though.********
- wordpress is great, but won't scale like drupal.manonthestreet
- it could be argued that WP has evolved into a CMS Framework as well. Just depends on how you operate
- Gordy220
Honestly, I find it difficult to get to grips with - it IS less intuitive and you need to get your head around the CMS vernacular.
Problem we have is that we've got a dev and a live environment, neither of which we can really play with the break, hence the need for training
- manonthestreet0
Gordy create a third 'dev' environment on your local machine.
Downlaod a copy of you template...import a copy of a database...
thats your sandbox....A lightbulb will go off.
- clearThoughts0
Don't.... stick to Wordpress. Or if you are getting serious about stuff Go with Rails or a nice MVC php framework.
Why invest all that time in Drupal?
You can be up and running 10x fast in Wordpress.
- manonthestreet0
If you are serving simple content clearThoughts may be correct. If you need a taxonomy that can scale well make the move.