New site--should I go with 6 or 5
jimebob - May 21, 2008 - 04:59
I'm going to start a new site in the next few weeks, should I stick with Drupal 5 which I am familiar with or should I go with 6? Are there enough addons that are compatible with 6 available right now?
You should check if the
You should check if the modules you are going to use are available for drupal 6. If they are, you should use drupal 6. It is so much more advanced. I personally believe drupal 6 is the best drupal to date.
If you want ecommerce...
Go with 5 because there's no modules for 6. I'm having to downgrade.
D5 for complex sites
Depending on how complex your site is going to be you might be better of staying with D5 for now till the important contrib modules are upgraded for D6.
1. Upgrading from 5 to 6 in
1. Upgrading from 5 to 6 in due course shouldn't be a problem, though can take a bit of time the first time you do it, especially if you have many contributed modules.
2. Note that there may be new functionality in 6 that you want ... the question would be whether having this is a stronger requirement than the availability of all the many modules now released for 5.
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I would go for 5. Let's
I would go for 5. Let's suppose you go for 6, sooner or later your going to want to use a module to do something, only to find out that the module only has a buggy development release or no release at all. Your still new to drupal so you don't even know what it can do, so you might think 6 is fine, but unless you have a super simple site (e.g. brochureware) I think you'll regret it. On the plus side you'll improve your installation chops.
The website I will be
The website I will be putting up will have an assortment of ebooks to display and describe. It should be pretty basic.
www.topsellingaffiliate.com
Exactly. I obviously don't
Exactly. I obviously don't know your site or your vision for it, but just going off of what you said I would want to use the CCK module to create an ebook type that has information such as title, picture, date published, description, and a link to the ebook. Will you be giving these book away for free? I doubt it. You may want some e-commerce functionality. Also, you'll want to display a list of these books, how should you display that? By date? By title? By most popular? How many books per page? The views module would allow you to do that and change it on the fly or let the user select how they want to view it. The problem (but actually good) with drupal is you don't (yet) know what you can do with it.
Here's something else, it's not just fancy stuff (which the above really isn't at all either). It's common for SEO purposes to want to control the title of your pages. But drupal doesn't allow this out of the box, instead you need the page_title module. However, page title module is only available for 6 as development release (i.e. not fully tested). How's that for a simple requirement?
Clearly there will come a time when 6 is the way to go, but that time has not yet come. Just my two cents.