Survey Questions
Last modified: November 16, 2006 - 04:48
- How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator? (pick the best one)
- New user
- Non-technical user forced to become "accidental technologist"
- Inexperienced with Drupal but learning fast, based on other website-building experience
- Experienced administrator, comfortable with configuring site rapidly
- Module developer who understands what's going on behind the scenes
- Other (please specify)
- How many Drupal sites do you administer? (select one)
- 1
- 2-5
- 6-11
- 12-24
- 25 or more
- Which types of Drupal websites do you administer? (select all that apply)
- Personal Blog
- Community site
- Social Change site
- Brochure site
- News site
- E-Commerce site
- Other (please specify)
- How frequently do you administer your Drupal site? (pick the best one)
- Monthly
- Once every couple of weeks
- Several times a week
- Daily for 30-60 minutes of website management
- Daily for several hours in site development and deployment
- Other (please specify)
- How long do you administer your Drupal site in a single sitting approximately? (pick the best one)
- Thirty minutes to an hour
- Few hours
- Half a day
- All day long
- Other (please specify)
- How does Drupal help you accomplish your goals as a web site administrator? (select all that apply)
- Rapid deployment of features and ability to meet customer requirements
- Web based content publishing is easy and allows for end user contributions
- Easy-to-learn website that can be taught to users
- Allows website developers to leverage previous experience when building new sites
- Allows for monitoring and logging of the website
- Module configuration, extensibility with new modules, and clean code make it easy to customize the website as you need it
- Dynamic and exciting developer community allows for rapid and fun learning
- Other (please specify)
- Why do you use Drupal? (select all that apply)
- Features, extensibility, integration of modules, clean code allow you to customize your site
- Speed of deployment and re-use of existing functionality
- Community is helpful, has smart people, is very active, and is working on community solutions not just technical capabilities
- Allows users to create content, categorize content, and add navigation to the site
- Other (please specify)
- How does Drupal help your users? (select all that apply)
- Gives them the features they want quickly
- Allows users to create web based content such as forum posts, or blogs
- Drupal community innovates and provides new and improved community-building tools
- Cost effective, easy to convince non-technical decision makers
- Other (please specify)
- What are your most common Drupal administration tasks?
- Monitor site through reviewing logs, looking at user activity
- Manage spam through comments, trackbacks, forum, and user registration
- Configure modules
- Update modules, install modules, test patches, track fixes for modules
- Work on themes and edit theme templates to customize module output
- Learn about Drupal capabilities and features, understand terminology, and plan improvements
- Manage users accounts, change permissions
- Respond to user feedback during testing and make changes
- Create web pages through the creating content types
- Other (please specify)
- What are your least common Drupal tasks? (select all that apply)
- Add new features by adding modules or coding new features
- Manage spam, delete content and comment, and banning users
- Modify existing content such publishing to the front page, making content sticky, or changing titles
- Layout content in positions with blocks, views, or designing a content section
- Change site theme or theme a content section
- Modify site navigation
- Other (please specify)
- When you administer your site you find it easy to: 5 options, Not Easy - Very Easy
- Add new features and install modules
- Automate tasks using cron
- Manage user information by editing user account permissions
- Change themes or make changes to layout with theme templates
- Post, edit, and version web pages and other content types
- General settings such as changing titles, or date format
- When you administer your site you find it hard to: 5 options, Not Hard - Very Hard
- Discover where to configure site settings, or where all the different places where a site needs to be configured are
- Understanding Drupal specific concepts or understand technical language without pictures
- Upgrade modules manually, theme/customize module output, determine module dependencies
- Manage content specifically creating new content types, viewing differences in node versions, importing content, or seeing multiple previews of content on a single page
- Manage large groups or users, nodes, menu items, comments, blocks
- Get overview of new content and activities on site
- Configure user permissions with increasing granularity
- Manage menus such as changing menu block weights for all menus on a page, or ordering menu items within a menu
- What are some important administration tasks that did not fit into the categories above for you? (select all that apply)
- Analyzing logs to understand the state of your site
- Integrating modules, resolving incompatibilities, theming the output
- Setting up a testing process including creating a test role, soliciting feedback from users, configuring corrections, and working with module development process to get bugs resolved
- Work on the theme and templates to create structure and distinct looks to sections of the site
- Hide output from modules such as node links or browsing links
- Managing menus with the menu editing interface, bulk menu editing, and menu options
- Manage performance of the site
- Identify popular content
- Aggregate content from other sources into a site
- Other (please specify)
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