Drupal 6 new features

great job

Really nice intruduction to new Drupal 6 features.
I already know most of them, but when I sow your overview I realized that this is big improvement for most of users.

Nice presentation.

It is said creating themes became really easy in Drupal 6. Could you create a video about it next time? Thanks!

Many thanks for the screencast!

Thank you very nice cast.

I'm a new ro drupal and have a little wonder about primary links and secondary links.

I have installed drupal 6 and it's works fine.

but when i created new page "About US" primary link and i added 3 sub page into it. But nothing was appears below the About us. I have tried different themes. In the menus, Below the "About Us" i can see the subpages. I totally confused with this and don't know what i going to do...

Anyone have suggestions? or how do i solve this just like old ones.

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I like to learn by having someone explain something to me, then reading about it and when I apply it kinetically, I got it. This is a great start for me as it takes care of the first step and part of the second. All this needs is a transcript and some exercises to drive home the message for me. I just found out about Drupal today as it was mentioned on joomla.org
I'm somewhat of an intermediate website developer, at least enough to remember what it was like to be novice, and as I surf around everything Drupal I can't wait to dive in and try this. Thx for putting up the screencast;; it seemed just like having someone next to me to show me something new. I hope to get into a position (financially and intellectually) to give back to the community soon.

that was really helpful. looks like you took some time on it. thank you for sharing this walk-through!

when i watch drupal screencasts my head just blows away of the features and possibilities. Suddenly you feel like "oh here is the universal product that will make my life, your life, everyones life better" and just dont know what to build first :D
thanks for the video :)

hey thanks, i am thinking about upgrading our site swingwind.com to drupal 6 and this screen cast as helped me a lot

i have started working on with drupal 6
and i must say that it has really been improved and all the new features are so handy
much better than the older version

Very interesting post, but I feel like I am too late. I just started by blog using WordPress, even though I heard so many great things about Drupal..

thanks alot for the post and the video, very helpful!!!

This is stable version of Drupal 6?

It was a great jump start on the new features of Drupal. Thank you greggles.

great blog, very interesting information.

Is there any conversion to go from Joomla to Drupal? Would one have to start from scratch and import SQL and content one at a time? I like the drupal backend and would like to try it.
Great site and very helpful info.
Thanks.

Thanks for the video, great job

am wondering, if there is somewhere detailed overview of new + improved features in drupal 6 release...? Also some preliminary code?

Further proof that Drupal is the wave of the future.

I used drupal for my site http://thestasis.com and another one within my organisation-intranet. Later as I learnt and realised the scaling potential and usability, I felt Drupal was better for an enterprise and may be wordpress for personal blogs. I see competition for Drupal from SharePoint. Don't know much about SharePoint but enterprises tend to stick more to vendor provided solutions than Open Source.

Having said that, I upgraded my company intranet site to Drupal 6, and my personal site to wordpress. One big reason was the Wordpress2.5 dashboard that allows me to see at a glance what all's been happening. Drupal badly needs that one.

• So, Drupal6 needs a dashboard right after an admin logs in.
• Though Drupal has a lot of modules, we need to have more built in. I only use 3 modules with WP but about 15-20 with Drupal.
• Drupal needs a dose of Ajax. Though WP too lacks on that front
• The Drupal logo (missing in v5) is a welcome and powerful marketing/advertiting enhancement. WP has been doing it all through.
• We need a pleasant Web 2.0 kinda default theme that makes the site look light and nice.

While I have more suggestions (read stinkers) for WP, I personally find Drupal to be more suited for enterprise level scalability and customisation. Something that works right out of the box is WP2.5

Great site. I like your style. I will be checking back very often. Keep up the good work!

nice intruduction to new Drupal 6 features.

Thanks for sharing

Thx for the Video, I used the 5th Version for a long time for a lot of my projects and your video gives me a good impression of the new features.

Do you have a budgie? It sounds like you got one ^^

Thanks for video

Very useful

I had been considering to jump to Drupal for quite some time and this great screencast has convinced me to do the switch.

Again Thanks

Vic

Very timely - just installed ver 6 and wondered what the differences were ;-)

Thanks

I've been a huge fan of WP as a CMS, but I'm really like some of these features Drupal has. I've considered giving it a try for a while, but just haven't made the leep. I'll prob give it a shot after I finish up a few projects. Thanks for the video.

I made the jump to Drupal and have not looked back. Anybody seeing this cast I highly recommend you make the jump you will not regret it.

John

or is it better than that? I'm getting confused by all these online diary mediums. Does it make any difference if I were to use this Drupal instead? I'm getting quite a headache trying to find out more about all these technicalities.

Thanks for the screencast! I am new to Drupal and it was very interesting. Was watching it with my brother and we are going to build a test site, to get used to it. Maybe we will convert from wordpress to drupal!

Thanks

It looks really good, the screen cast has been put together well. I think I may give it a go, I have been looking for a new solution.
Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the screencast it really helped me see the changes from Version 5. Although because I rely on several modules that are not available in 6 yet, I am stuck with 5 for now, but look forward to upgrading when Views / CCK is out of beta.

Cheers,
Gavin.

I've been using WordPress for the majority of my work; but the features of Drupal that you present make it look like a very attractive platform.

I'll be honest that's the first time I hear about Drupal. Sounds interesting.

I've been using Wordpress for a long, long time so I'm not so sure about switching over to Drupal. I looked into it some time ago when I was trying to use Drupal as a portal for my vbulletin forum. In your opinion, how would you rate the ease at which someone can switch over from WP to drupal? I'm not liking certain upgrades made to WP and it's getting away from the simplicity that attracted me to it...

Very nicely done, thanks heaps. Can't wait to implement Drupal 6

Greggles, is Drupal better than WP? I'm just wondering because I see a lot of problems with WP. I would appreciate your feedback, thank you.

Everyone says that setting up and installing Drupal is the hard part. I’ve found that to not be the truth. Installing Drupal was not any harder than installing any CMS package. You have to know what you are doing, or it will break. Modules are easy to install and manage.

The big problem with Drupal is the Voodoo. Things randomly seem to start and stop working. Permissions issues crop up, and are gone a few minutes later, only to rear up with a death toll finality. Solutions on the community range from effective and logical to total utter flailing around. If you use Drupal be prepared to randomly go into your DB tables and hack things.

I can honestly say that I will never use Drupal again. Unexplained phenomenon are par for the course. Everything is total utter Voodoo, from the way Drupal builds it’s markup and div structure, to theming, to fundamentals like permission controls.

If you are at the start of your project and using Drupal, get out now while you still can before you get dragged into the ninth ring of Drupal hell like me :(. Just my personal advice though

I have been contemplating switching to Drupal for my real estate blog but I just cant seem to pull the trigger. Wordpress is a very strong platform and allows for tons of plugins, not to mention all the cool themes. Maybe one day....

I've downloaded your screencast. Thank you. Actually i've just learing Drupal...becaus after WP it seemed to be more difficult.

Thank you for the screencast. I'm new to Drupal.
It was very useful info for me.

I really like the way the screencast shows up with a pop out feature. How do you do that?
The video is very good with side bar navigations.

Now I've got a question - I need to install Drupal in Russian, it's more understandable for me. Where did you get that file with the Hungarian language? Where shouls I download the Russian language?

You know, I hear about drupal more and more each day. I keep thinking that it is probably time for me to take a serious look at if this platform will be right for me. Thanks- Lynd.

I have never tried Drupal before. I have heard most of the advantages that come with using it. I think it's time I try it out.

After a year this realise is still a big news. Wow, drupal must be very popular. Does some of you uses also Joomla or you've decided for drupal only?