This screencast provides a 29 minute overview of the new features that Drupal 6 offers. Covered features include the new installer, the new core modules, the various usability improvements, performance improvements and the other major improvements, which are hard to show in this short video.
Written and recorded by Greg Knaddison.
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Hello again. Greg, I am new to drupal and am building a largish website with many requirements and as the list of modules and users grow I am finding it hard to manage the admin of it. I have to go with Drupal 5 for now and then upgrade later, so I miss out on heaps of things that Drupal 6 has to offer. The only place I can find (currently) that shows the thingo that moves the top bar header for the Role types along with you is in your video!
Somewhere in there - you show enthusiastically this feature that is designed so you don't get lost when assigning access permissions to users...
I just cannot find it after a long time of searching.. Could you please point me to a module that I can use with Drupal 5 that would give this functionality please?
Love the podcast. I work for a community college and always recommend student's learn and use open source. What could I tell them a Drupal developer earns, beings the only language they understand is dollars and cents.
Great summary and vid
cheers
Well it certainly made clear what real value there was to using drupal 6 vs 5, i.e. really none.
Hm, maybe you have to pay closer attention to the video :)
nice intruduction to new Drupal 6 features.
Thanks for sharing
Your video is a great help
Great site. I like your style. I will be checking back very often. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for a great info!
Your video is a great help and confidence builder. I had tried an install a year ago and gave up. I was ready to "wing" another attempt, and came across your video presentation...thank You!.
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.
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
Hi Greg
Thanks for a great and informative screencast!
Peter
Further proof that Drupal is the wave of the future.
That's a very informative screencast, I have been looking for more information about Drupal 6 to compare it to Joomla and this helped me out a great deal. Thanks!
am wondering, if there is somewhere detailed overview of new + improved features in drupal 6 release...? Also some preliminary code?
very interesting
Thanks for the video, great job
Very interesting post. I just started by blog using WordPress, even though I heard so many great things about Drupal.
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.
Thank you for interesting information.
great blog, very interesting information.
Thanks for sharing new features of Drupal!
It was a great jump start on the new features of Drupal. Thank you greggles.
Thank you, It might be useful for future screencast's to include agendas? This blog is about New features in Drupal 6.
This is stable version of Drupal 6?
Great job - thanks for the videocast!
hi I am searching for the Drupal 6. Now I got the right information, Thank you for your information.
thanks alot for the post and the video, very helpful!!!
Wow! There's a Drupal 6 already? It seems like the other day that I just heard about it getting big.
Thanks for posting the screencast. It's always nice to see things first hand....
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..
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing!
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
when i watch drupal screencasts my head just blows away of the features and possibilities
I decided to move my blog to Drupal 6 right now, since it amazing...and I am eager to the SEO Screencast!
hey thanks, i am thinking about upgrading our site swingwind.com to drupal 6 and this screen cast as helped me a lot
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 for sharing good job keep it up
that was really helpful. looks like you took some time on it. thank you for sharing this walk-through!
Good work. Continue write.
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.
Hmmm... well that test showed ALL the other comments in bold as well... so now I will turn off strong and the next ones should be normal...
Thanks Greg! Excellent job. Love your enthusiasm.
Checking the example for unclosed tag...
LOL, we don't run Drupal 6 yet, so you cannot test this feature here.
And in 3 months you were the first who didn't close his HTML tag, so it is easier to close this by hand than installing a module for this :)
P.S closed your
strongtag :DThank 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.
http://amarjargal.org/mn
Thank you guys.
After try out, i have decided to use navigation menus. But i have re-scratch sitemaps. Gotto learn a lot.
Primary and secondary links behavior is slightly changed compared to Drupal 5.
Primary and secondary links are now independent menus and more meant to be one level deep. It is certainly possible to have deeper primary links, but this does not make much sense any more. Use navigation menu instead.
So, Drupal themes that do not show sub menus in primary links are not too wrong.
Some themes support all Drupal functions, others not. :o(
The quickest way to solve your problem is what you did: choose an other theme.
You can find other solutions and can get more answers at drupal.org. (I think that is the right place for questions like this...)
Hi,
I really appreciate this content and effort if I could only watch it that is.
I am running PCBSD and cannot view Flash 9 content because there is no native support for that quite yet (soon). Seeing as we all strive to live in a open-source compatible world, perhaps you could see fit to offer these videos in a standard format as well, or just back up to Flash 7 for the BSDers out there.
Tnx, Jeff
Hi Jeff - sadly this format has a lot of benefits like having chapters that can be selected to better navigate the movies.
I'll see about getting another format online but the rendering and uploading process is quite time consuming.
Thanks for the feedback.
Greg
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Many thanks for the screencast!
It is said creating themes became really easy in Drupal 6. Could you create a video about it next time? Thanks!
Yes, that is next on the list along with some other more in depth tutorials!
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cool!
thanks for sharing it :)
Great work here !!
I am interested in enabling screencast for my site also. Can you point me to what tools you are using for your screencast?
Thanks,
Linda
Hi Linda. I'm glad you're enjoying it.
Here is an article which describes three options I've used: http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/howto-create-screencasts
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Thanks for the screencast! I was really looking forward to the new Drupal 6.
However, having watched your screencast about the internationalization features, my enthusiasm has decreased :( The problem with the navigation menu per language made me stop developing my site in Drupal 5, but it looks as if it's not better with 6. This would be a real drawback.
Birgit
Hi Birgit - I'm glad you like them.
I believe that the contributed i18n module has some solutions for that. http://drupal.org/project/i18n You may also want to discuss it with the experts in the i18n group http://groups.drupal.org/i18n because I was just discussing Drupal core but much more is possible with contributed modules.
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I appreciated learning about all of the usability improvements.
This should be in the drupal handbook.
Hi Makea - that was the plan all along and (especially now that I re-organized some of that section) it is easy to find them.
All the Drupal6.x videos: http://drupal.org/node/128752
This "what's new" video: http://drupal.org/videocasts/whats-new-in-6
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Greg,
Nicely put up for those seeking quick into on D6. D6 rocks!
Roshan
Nice presentation.
Some of these new features are really nice. I hope they keep up the good work.
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.
Thanks for the screencast. It might be useful for future screencast's to include agendas? e.g.:
minutes 0 - 10: installing
minutes 10 - 20: usability improvements
minutes 20 - 30: caching
Thanks for movie preview.
Criação de sites
great job
Thank you.
Nice summary and nicely put together screencast.
Great screencast! One question on the performance page. How can page compression be enabled if caching is disabled?
I believe that was added in Cache with zlib results in double compression.
I think you are right that if you do not have caching enabled then the compression toggle has no impact on the site. Perhaps the widget should be disabled in that case.
How can I use your affiliate sollution in Hungary?
We don't have affiliate solution -- what solution do you asking about?
Nice overview! Thanks!
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