By noiseordinance on

As a intermediate web designer interested in picking up Drupal, would you guys recommend learning and implementing the new version 6, or a prior version?

Also, if I'm interested in finding a theme similar to a layout that I want, and then slightly modifying it's dimensions, what skills will I need beyond CSS and HTML?

Thank you. :)

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laceiba’s picture

laceiba commented

Drupal 6 is pretty new. Many modules are not yet available, whereas there's a lot of stuff out there for 5 that works. Theming in Drupal 6 is probably better than 5, however. If you can learn some PHP, it probably would not hurt you.

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noiseordinance commented

Well that makes it a little more difficult in deciding. :P

I'd like to have something with a WYSIWYG editor for content submission as well. Should I go with 5.7, even though template modification is more difficult?

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srodriguez commented

I would learn both 5.7 and 6. Just because there are a decent amount of people who are not upgrading to 6 just yet. 6 is very nice to use but it doesn't have some modules that many find essential upgraded just yet. So that is why I would suggest learning 5.7 as well.

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nels commented

I'm very excited about 6., but I use modules that haven't been upgrade to 6 yet so I'm sticking with 5.7 until they are.

Depending on what your plans and needs are, you may be able to use 6 and not miss any functionality.

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noiseordinance commented

Can you do WYSIWYG in Drupal 6 yet?

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laceiba commented

It's still in beta and I haven't tried it, but FCKeditor will work with 6:

http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor