Announcing Drupal Miracle: The Step by Step Drupal 6 Tutorial Videos

Great idea,

I'll be one of the first few in line!
M.

I'm really new to Drupal (zero experience), will these video be a good starting point for me or are there others that I need to watch first (and what are they)? Help in this direction is much appreciated, I would like to learn Drupal and start a project with it. Thanks -- Carmelo C Bonilla Jr, Hawaii USA

So far Drupal 6 is a tease to me. No views, category templates, and several other mods that are crucial to what I want to do. I don't know if I would need this video (as I have spent so many hours learning and using Drupal 5X) but what I watched before I knew how to use Drupal was beneficial. I wouldn't jump the gun on Drupal 6 as of yet. there is still so much that needs to be done.

Hello I tried to post this yesterday after watching the "What's new with Drupal 6" video, but got an error that you exceeded your bandwidth.

Thanks for tutorials, I have many questions about making Drupal sites do the things I have learned in the StompingNet Stomping The Search Engine Courses.

For instance:
1. In order to push PR through a site, it is best practice to have more than 1 template where you control internal linking structure with rel="nofollow" tags. So how does one do this with a Drupal Site? For instance, a index page for site is tier 1, links to category pages (tier 2) but other pages like "contact us" and some external links are rel-nofollow. Tier 2 pages link to detailed tier 3 pages, but rel-nofollow to index. And Tier 3 page link back to index page, but rel=nofollow to tier 2. This is just one possible scenario of course.

1. How can you have better control over the title tags for a page? Having them match the title of node often is not exactly what you want.

Look forward to the future lessons.

I can only thank you for providing us Drupal new-comers with such detailed and relevant information. I can't wait to know Drupal 6 inside out! Thanks for this opertunity. Who knows, maybe one day I will be doing the same for Drupal 8 - The flash version ;D (yep Flash is my fet and I would like to fully integrate it with drupal in such a way that you can administer everything within a flash (search engine friendly) CMS environment. It would be even more interesting to investigate presenting a 3D semantic web using Flash/Flex, AJAX, Papervision 3D and Drupal doing the core work!

Until then... I think I'll just watch you're videos and contemplate on contributing Drupal once I have el Knowledge!

Cheers Greggles!

Is there any help pages or site for installing?

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I guess I should have known that tutorials for Drupal existed. I installed it on a website once through my host but had such problems setting it up that I gave up on it. Thanks for bringing such a product to notice.

Fantastic job man. Keep up the good work.

When do you plan to release and at what price? Lullabot.com is also working on video training, so who will be first? I am ready to spend money on who ever release first.

Thanks

Jesper

this kind of real information will help drupal adoption big time.

sounds great

Thanks for doing that, will go through it as soon as possible.

we needed this, thank you so much... thumbs up

cheers mate

"I am issuing my tutorial video on Drupal 6 in March 2008" you write. Well it is April and still no news. Will the videos ever be ready? Could you please give us some kind release date estimate?

Ehm, 10 hours might be a bit long.. I hope the videos will be divided in to many chapters..

So, when can we see the videos mate?? :)

Ive been checking in on this site for the videos for a while now. Is there still a plan to release these videos? Is it possible to do it in a phased approach, so that we can start leaning now?

we're now in the month of may. is it already available?

Thanks for the hard work. Many will benefit from your vision with videos rather than standard documentation.

Views is in beta3 and CCK is in beta, so now you should be able to finish Drupal miracle. Any new time frame?

"We are working on the videos, I will post an update on the work progress soon!", when?

Did this ever happen? I can't seem to find where to buy these. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Dang this looks real neat bro, i have been hearing a lot about drupal, so time to take a deep look on it....nice cover design by the way.

Hi,
I as well am looking for a good comprehensive on drupal. I;ve been see alot about it recenlty, and am looking for a good tutorial system that will help working with it. Nice that you are also donating parts of the proceeds to the association.

Hope you can get things worked out soon.

Mike

I just saw on drupal.org that there is a new video out. Maybe you could join the forces!
Anyway, a great idea for the new Drupal users!

Keep up the good work!
Joep

now i just need to set aside the time to sit through the videos

I really wanted to get started on Drupal based on some limitations I have found with Wordpress. I have been checking back on your site for months for these videos to be released. But I had to cave and install joomla. At least there are some good video tutorials on lynda.com for joomla. Maybe by the time I launch my next project you will have the videos out...

I'd like to add my "When is the release date?" question to the list, but I see you've got plenty. Maybe the announcement was a bit early... :)

I just finally got the hang of wordpress and I've been hearing lots about drupal. My dreamhost hosting service makes it easy for me to one click install drupal, so I did that recently, goofed around with it a bit but found it difficult to get the hang of it!

Thank you for putting together a GREAT Video course on it!!! Should finally give me the help I need to get this going!!! Maria Gudelis

On june 16, you wrote "It looks like that we need 1-1,5 month to finish the videos" in a mail. Well more the one month has gone by. Any news? Will we get Drupal Miracle this time around? Could we get a reply this time? What will it cost? When do you plan to release?

I have been using drupal 6 and still waiting for bug happy sitemap and pathauto mods. These are two huge mods that IMO should be a part of the core. Otherwise I am enjoying some of the new features of 6 :)

Could we get an update, soon?

I'm looking at both drupal and joomla.

Is there a site which can tell me the main difference between the two?

Thanks

J.R.

Hello!

I'm looking forward to the screencast. When wil it be ready?

Any updates on the release of the videos? I understand that Views 2 are out now.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm studying Drupal and am I very interested to the course.. there are news about the video course(s)?
Thanks

I love durpal 6, i find it just as useful as wordpress. The only reason i use wordpress is because i use it with my iphone, other than that im a Dupral user full go! I was wondering their new updates are going to appear on their site and how much its going to cost.

Great info, thanks for posting this... I love Drupal tutorials considering I'm new to it.

Do you have these training videos ready? Please let me know.

The videos sound awesome. Any update as to when they will be available. I would categorize myself in the "beginner" stage, but it sounds like they would be something for me. The idea of going from start to finish on one website will be great for me. Keep us updated.

Cheers.

The year is almost over, any chance to get this videos out for the holidays?, that would be better than Santa Claus!

Hi ! I am a new user of Drupal and eagerly waiting for the "Drupal Miracle Video Tutorial"

Before using Drupal I was using Joomla! I was attracted to joomla rather than Drupal because I was searching for a easy to learn CMS. Everybody told me Joomla! is great and easy but Drupal is very hard to learn. Yes it is really right that Joomla is very easy but the lie is it is not great. After developing my site using joomla I was very happy but when I gave attention to SEO rathe than developing then the true face of Joomla came out. Joomla is a nightmare in the question of seo. It is not seo friendly rather it takes a long and lot to make it seo friendly. Joomla really disappointed me.

Then I tried to learn Drupal and I found that according to every one's saying it is not very hard to learn Drupal. And it has many many many features that the Joomla don't have. According to me I think the major difference between these two cms is it is very easy to develop a site using joomla but a nightmare to maintain your site and make it seo friendly. On the other hand developing a site using drupal is more professional, it is very easy to maintain your site and the seo is great in Drupal.

I love Drupal.

Is it available yet? When will Drupal Miracle be available?

We are now 2009. any progress on the video's? Are they available if so where can one start viewing them.

much appreciated.

This looks very interesting I cannot wait to get my hands on this when it is released as I am trying to learn about drupal - I am a wordpress guy and I think that I have good knowledge of wordpress and ready to move up to more advanced CMS like Drupal - just wondering how much something like this might cost.

I want to know how I could sign up to download these when they are released. I'm learning drupal now, I'm an Art Director and mastering themes is one of my greatest interest as a traditional graphic designer. Drupal is great and once I'm running with it I'll contribute back to the Open Source community with some free content. BTW I know your videos will be paid I just want to know when?

Sorry, I'm a bit late, I'm not sure, but I was looking for some video tutorials on Drupal based development, and have a question. Is Drupal Miracle available now? And where is it possible to get it?

It would be really exciting to learn from video...as reading texts always bored me...I hope the video quality is good and the money worth investing!

Hi,
Just a suggestion which I saw used someplace else...Even though entire product wasn't available at time promised this site didn't let that stop them and released those pieces that were available. Really worked for me because there was still a lot I could learn from what was available and kept me interested and waiting for more...

Publishing some tutorials until the rest of modules are ready is a good way to do it. I am sure that Panels 3 is something that is still under development and many other possible modules. But I am sure that at least the 50% of this 10-hour tutorial is ready so why not split it in two parts? Just to keep users busy and have enough time to digest the info until everything is ready!

Why can't you try all these in WordPress?? I think it will be more flexible than Drupal... I am gonna try it out!! Hope to get back to you soon... Thank you.

In Drupal's CCK, how do I add additional global settings to fields?

Disclaimer: I'm a Rails developer who is plenty familiar with PHP, but Drupal's learning curve is a little steeper than one morning. Pointing me to the right hooks or a module that does the same type of thing as I'm doing should be just as good as spelling out what to do.

I'm working with Content Profile and need to add a(n integer) setting for every field that's created under the Profile content type. Let's call it Priority. It'd be like the "Maximum length" setting in terms of numerality and globalness, but I need to add it via a module. hook_field_settings looks promising, but I can't figure out how to get in there on top of an existing field type - there are plenty of articles out there that show me how to do this if I was making a whole new field type, but I'd rather attach this to all of the existing ones.

Bonus points for getting this value to appear as a column on the top level 'Manage fields' page. Even more bonus points for the go-to (e)book for Drupal development.

I was thinking about trying Drupal but I heard it is quite complicated. And I'm not strong at error & problems handling with such systems when it comes to that... As many users, i don't like written guides and bettter understand video tutorials, so maybe now it's time that I try that solution.