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By zionn on
Hi,
I am new to CMS develoment, but I have solid skills on xhtml, css, jquery/prototype/scriptaculous and Flash. I also know the basics of PHP and am intersted to learn more. I would like to be able to build ecommerce webstores with product lists, shopping carts and payment systems. Also social sites with discussion forums such as this. But most of all I would really like to be able to produce the frontend xhtml, css, flash elements and javascript interactions by writing the codemy self instead of something generated. This way I would get the exact appearence for the site which I am looking for. I hate the way Joomla generates everyhing with tables, because I am more of a div developer.
So is Drupal right for me? Should I wait for D7 or start learning right away with 6? Where are the best resources for learning? Best Books (perhaps something about D7..)
Thanks for all answers!
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Drupal can do this no problem-- you'll want to look at the http://drupal.org/project/ubercart series of modules for ecommerce. As for front end code, that's all handled by the theming system which is incredibly flexible. See http://drupal.org/theme-guide/6 for more info.
I would go ahead and start with d6.