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icommercepage - July 12, 2008 - 21:45
I am new here and the site is very hard to undesand, so i invite all news users for talk here abou Drupal
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Hi Icommercepage, First
Hi Icommercepage,
First Welcome to our Community. I understand that for You as a newcomer the Drupal.org looks a bit overhelming.
Please consider that this community site is managed and supported by volonteers and we all gain no economic advantage this is a no profit organization. We all work hard to organize Documentation and hard to get Hardware resources always up for hundred thousend visitors.
You are welcome to precise what are you looking for and there will be always some of us that will give you hints, suggestions etc.
Cheers
Share your experience with the Open Source Community it's not only a choice but a Life Philosophy !!!
Some interesting Old & New, Issues & posting on Drupal.org
What I Want
Hi Everyone,
I guess this is the "newbie thread," so let me jump in with how things stand for me at this time.
Here's what I'm looking to use Drupal for:
I'm looking to create a website that is an informational resource for personal fitness, with a particular emphasis on "aggressive" but injury-free exercise. It will have blogs and forums and audio-visual materials, both "original to the site" and visitor-contributed.
That's the big idea in a couple of sentences.
Now how do I go from here -- where I'm looking through a list of Drupal-friendly webhosts -- to there, where the technological backbone is in place for me to just go and start posting articles, blogs, and video?
I've just purchased the new Drupal 6 book by David Mercer and it will arrive in a few days...but though I am 100% comfortable with XHTML and CSS and am a reasonably competent JavaScript "skript kiddie," I'm totally new to the CMS/CMF world, having only heard about it a few months ago and having only started reading on Drupal *yesterday!*
So my plan right now is to sign up with a Drupal-friendly webhost and start tinkering...but I really don't see any Drupal tutorials around (then again, I just have no luck with search engines, even though I understand the whole concept of keywords)...part of my problem as a newbie is that I'm still trying to wrap my mind around just how Drupal will help me do what I need.
I mean, okay, so I want a website...now I know how to write up the XHTML and style it with CSS, and throw in some JavaScript to do this little thing and that...but I don't know how to add blogs and forums and video to it...I had thought to integrate Wordpress and pHpForum onto such a Web 1.0 site, but then I came across Drupal and I'm hearing talk about how this "Drupal system" could somehow do a lot of all that for me...and that's all I know at this point.
Now how to get from this point to my aforementioned goals of a real Web 2.0-capable site?
Many thanks for all your time and help, folks!
Whoa, Hey, Wait A Minute...
Apparently Drupal's core forum module is just a clever hack of its core commenting system??
Apparently it's nothing like phpBB or any real commonly-used web forums you see around...no smileys, etc.??
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you expand the forum.module as you do with any other part of Drupal core. Using contrib modules that are available in the downloads area and themeing it as you see fit.
If its smilies you want, get the smileys.module
If you are expecting something more toward a forum centric script, keep in mind that Drupal isn't forum centric and the forum.module isn't the only focus of developers. Though work does indeed continue in this area.
You can choose to bridge a full forum script into drupal but this has far more drawbacks then advantages. including but not limited to, two seperate searches.
Hmmm, Okay...
Um, good to know, thanks...not sure how things work or tie together, but it's something of a relief to know that a work-around is possible....
Thanks again...wish there was a "Drupal for Dummies" book!
Bom dia Janio!
Bom dia Janio! Bem-vindo!
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Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Lao Tzu
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Not a good idea
Whether you are new or old, you are better off starting a new forum post with a clear title than lumping your problem onto an existing thread.
Michelle
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You mean FitnessTrainer
Hi Michelle, agree with you. Just want figure out that you mean posting of FitnessTrainer
;-)
Share your experience with the Open Source Community it's not only a choice but a Life Philosophy !!!
Some interesting A New Tutorial Site
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Yes, s/he and anyone else who takes the OP's advice to post here because you're new. We don't want a monster "newbie question" thread. Individual threads are a lot easier to deal with and will get more attention.
Michelle
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See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out life in the Coulee Region.
Sure Thing
Okay, I'll do that, thanks.