Newest member needs help

1-I have never designed a website nor do i even understand html.Is drupal for someone like me

It all depends-- are you someone who can install software and are happy with the way it works out-of-the-box or are you particular about exactly specifying how things look and behave? Drupal is fairly easy to install and setup, but the second you want to change the look or behavior you're going to need to manipulate html, css, and/or php. It definitely helps, though, no question.

2-If Drupal is that powerful and excellent,then why is it free?

Do some googling on open source software-- this is not particular to drupal. There's loads of high quality open source software available for free (linux is free also).

3-Where is the best place to start learning the basics drupa?

You can start right here on drupal.org to get a feel for it before spending any money-- go to the documentation tab and start with "getting started". I would also see many of the videos at: http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/videocasts.

4-Do i need php technical know-how to be able to design sites with drupal?

Again, it certainly helps. For theming the php you need to know is pretty basic, but never-the-less it's php.

5-Does any member know of a RELIABLE drupal video training tutorials on the internet that is affordable and will eventually lay a better foundation for me to understand drupal?

Sorry, can't help you with for pay videos, i've not tried them. The only money i spent on drupal training resources was the Pro Drupal Development book-- and it was worth every penny.

You should be able to get an idea of whether or not drupal is something you can handle before spending any money. Install it and test it out, go through the docs and videos here on d.o. Take a look at the admin interface at the Open CMS demo for drupal.

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You could take a look at this course, I can't endorse it but its worth looking at - http://drupal.org/Drupal-essential-training-lynda-com

Ubercart imho is a great e-commerce system for Drupal 5, and I have built several sites with it - the documentation is superb and the help forum on the Ubercart site is very good.

What the hell is going on here.I am Eileen Pound from www.pound-investors.com .However many thanks to Nattreb for his unbiase endorsement that is based on the Drupal training videos he/she has purchase from us.

To start with,I am a French lady and a fiancee to Wayne Pound and we live in London.I have been with Wayne Pound for two years and we are a happy family.I am into my second year of learning English equally.

The content on Pound-Investors.com is written by a french guy with whom I collaborate as a partner though he has become very busy same as i do and we look forward to editing the site as soon as time permits.At least we have something in common and that being;we are both French speaking citizens.

I am a student and studying web design which includes open source projects,PHP,CSS and XHTML etc.

Having to learn English language as a starter within two years of being in England and to be able to communicate efficiently in English without errors is far from the reality.Maybe in three to five years time,my English will be more efficient and even proper than that of some of you whose first language is English.Some other person did also advice here http://pound-investors.com/en/node/207#comment-29 about the language typhos.But yet this said person is happy with the material.

I personally trained my fiancee to understand drupal, create training drupal tutorial screencasts using camtasia during his spare time when he is not at work.This way,the language of instruction can come out naturally and in clear and proper English language.

I see the arguement here is about English Language and the endorsement our training videos for Newbie training is receiving.I presume these negative comments found under this post are purely based on jealousy and some form of what i will call "epidemic of ignorance".

How on earth can someone endorsed a product or disagree about a product they have not used?One commentator says,he does not endorse the "products" on our site for the seek of ethics and so on.Then another one talks about "we" not being ble to offer a preview,and so on.All is bullshit and rubbish.Grammatical errors are part of a language.

What is a blog? A french lady sees it as a medium to publish your mind and thoughts.An "English speaker" says,how come a professional drupal consultant is publishing about irrelevant topics on a drupal base website.How stupid is it to find that an English speaker has no defination of a blog? Well the truth is that,we have fools and idiots in every community and fools and idiots are part of our various communities otherwise life becomes incomplete.

We have many satisfied customers around the world and if anyone here is out to investigate the accuracy of our products,why not create a topic in this forum and request for anyone using our drupal videos to share their experiences and comments.This way,you can have a partial number of people using it and what they think.There are also approximately more than 50 people that we offered our training videos to,for free.

Lastly,Eileen is becoming multi-linguistic and proud for the services I offer.If you want to challenge my language power,why not do it in FRENCH? How many of us are multi-lingual?I bet you that,my English is not bad for someone that never knew anything in English untill two years ago.

Drupal Freelancer

This is highly entertaining, but still smells like astroturf.

What I love is that they offer copywriting services!

They have more than 90 years of drupal webdesign however, so how can we doubt them?

Thankfully, every single one of their satisfied clients speaks exactly the same dialect as the pound-investor admin, so communication is clearly not a problem. People criticizing their grammar should realize that they are simply catering to their target market!

It would seem that every one of their happy customers has an idiosyncratic problem with their space key also. That's niche marketing!

Here's hoping that pound-investors continue to attract more of the same business they have been getting (since 1996) - no more and no less!

Anyone doubting the genuine nature of the assorted posts can try an IP lookup and see what that tells them. Until then, it would be rude to cast nasturtiums. ;-)

.dan.
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