Introduction to Drupal

Hello,

I've had some experience using Joomla CMS and creating content for it. I'd like to learn more about Drupal and its uses.

Hi folks, I've been a graphic designer for more years than i like to admit, and designed my first websites in the late 90s for the Intl. Trade Centre and some small subsites for WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. Never found the time/patience to learn to code, so normally work with developers. MarilynsView on Drupal Gardens and Twitter.

I've designed sites that use good-old HTML, Cold Fusion, Python/Django, Wordpress, before Drupal. Felt right at home when I found the Drupal community. Just got back from the DC Drupal meetup this evening. Looking forward to meeting you all and learning together.

Goals? There's always lots to learn. I'd like to learn a little about using command-line, Drush/Aegir if that's possible. Love learning, so it should all work for me.

Many thanks to Heather and to Web Enabled for putting this together.

Hi everyone,
My background is in accounting and finance systems consulting. My IT skills are self taught over the years. I've worked with HTML a bit, and to a minor degree with CSS. I guess I will be learning more CSS shortly.

I like to understand why things work the way they do. I am not a developer or a themer, but I need to learn more about those two areas to make my Drupal sites work the way I need them to. Once you understand how it works, Drupal appears to be highly configurable. I look forward to understanding views/panels and theming better.

Hello to all,

I'm Portuguese and start playing with drupal some months ago (i used it for developing a small site), and i'm impressed with it, the community is growing and is amazing.

My background is in web development and support, currently i work with one commercial big cms (vignette), that fact, gives me the understanding of dificulties with commercial software (closed apis, bad documentation, legal restrictions, etc.), in opposition of that, Drupal is a big step, it means freedom for the developer, and no restrictions for the designer.

My contact with Drupal was mostly self-learning, so with this course, i hope to re-learn some basic and core aspects.

@ Julia: Privyet! Your English is better than my Russian. Ya uchil russki yazik kogda ya buil student, 1984-1985. (Also, my pronunciation is better than my transliteration.)

@ Heather: Looking at the syllabus, I see several things that look familiar, but several that should be very helpful. I hope to contribute to documentation or in other ways, but have not done so yet. The first time I went to a meetup was last week, at MIT. I got some useful advice, and you may recall that I bristled at being called a "complete newbie." (I think of myself as an advanced newbie. ;)

Hi,

My background includes developing php/mysql web applications from scratch without any CMS/frameworks but now want to learn and use Drupal and some frameworks to get web apps developed quicker and with better security. I have been using Drupal for a number of months (using drush too). But feel I missing bits to make it all "click" together. I am lacking on the design side, I do understand html/css well but lack the experience of best practice page structure so I would like to learn how to build themes properly and how they work with views. Other areas I would like to learn about: know more aegir, jQuery. Based on Dublin, Ireland.

John

Hey crew, my name is Mason Stewart.

I'm a web dev/designer living and working in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. I'm also a full time student in the Philosophy program at Belhaven University.

I'm very strong in ExpressionEngine, but know little of Drupal and other CMS's. I'd like to broaden my expertise in Drupal especially.

In addition to EE, I'm a very competent xHTML/CSS guy, love jQuery and just plain ol' JS, and learning how to get stuff done in Rails.

I'm fluent in Japanese, too, although that doesn't often come in handy in Jackson, MS! HA!

Peace.

What's your background with web development or CMSs?

Web development part time community college instructor from 1996-2006. I have personally tested and used phpWebSite, PostNuke, Xoops, WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, as well as a few less popular scripts over the years. Trying to get focused on just using Drupal.

Currently my "day job" is in systems administration not doing anything with Web Development.

What are your personal goals for this course?

Clean up a few of the sites I have been working on, find a few new tips and resources along the way.

Hi,

I'm a danish frontend dev. / Multimedia Integrator trainee(Student) I work in a advertising company for about a half year then in school about 10 weeks and then work .. school ... work and after 3 years i'm educated.

I have done backend stuff before but now i primarily focus on fronted stuff and iphone apps build with titanium / JavaScript.

I have actually done fronted stuff for drupal for quite some time and have attended drupalcon, but i really need some experience in best practice for building drupal sites and structure them.

My goals for the course
Is a better knowledge of how to structure sites and best practices.

Heather,
I run my own website languagereef.com which is used to teach Indian languages and in the future for other foreign languages too..
I want to learn drupal to see if I can use drupal for my website for course management. Had worked with joomla at the basic level but have not tried drupal yet.. So it would be a wonderful oppurtunity to learn drupal. Thanks again.

Hi everybody, I'm starting a little bit late.

I don't have any experience at all with Drupal. But, I hope to get up to speed quickly. I do have experience in HTML CSS, and a little bit of javascript and PHP. I've worked with Wordpress and vBulletin before as well as far as CMS type software goes.

I simply hope to become familiar enough with all open source CMSs that I can comfortably pick the right one for whatever particular project and customize it accordingly. And, Drupal is on that list of course.

Hi. I'm web developer. I have experience in PHP, joomla, Drupal, postgresql, mysql, oracle. But, I want to strengthen my drupal foundation. I'm member of groups.drupal.org, and I am currently organizing the first Drupal After Dark in Costa Rica (http://groups.drupal.org/node/88559)

Pablo Aviles

Hi! I'm an engineering manager at a control system integrator company. My only real experience with CMS is as a joomla user but I've just started messing about with Drupal and it looks like a nice platform. I'm always trying to learn new skills and this looks like a great environment to do that in - really looking forward to it!

Hi, we're using Drupal a lot and are always looking for ways to help our staff become better acquainted with the framework.

Hi,

I am web developer working on Ruby on Rails. I have working knowledge of HTML, CSS and javascript. I work for a small startup and which does not have a UI team. So web design or choosing icons is always intimidating factor for me. I have heard about drupal but never really got a chance to play with it. I wish I could learn some interesting thins here.

I have seen that I missed the orientation session. Please let me know from where I can access this session.

I am not able to sign up as I am getting the following error.

"It looks like the form "Sign up for a free online Intro to Drupal course" is turned off.
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* What's your background with web development or CMSs?
I have coded a few websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from scratch and consider myself an advanced beginner on these topics. Drupal was used in many of my classes at school to manage assignments. I run my blog on Wordpress and have a portfolio site that runs on the Cargo Collective's system.

* What are your personal goals for this course?
In my classes at school, Drupal always seemed a little clunky and difficult for the administrators to bend to their will. The Drupal community is huge though, so this tool must be powerful and worthwhile. I'm eager for guidance on what Drupal is good for and how to upgrade my skills past level of end user of a CMS someone else set up.

Hi, Sorry for late reply.
I am vaibhavsk working as a php programmer.
I know some CMS like php fusion, pligg.
Curious to know about drupal.

Hi There. I am a designer and web developer and have developed drupal sites however I have been teaching myself Drupal (5) but you never know what you don't know. So glad to join this course. I own a small website development company in South Africa.
Happy learning with you all :)

Hello everyone!

I have no experience with web development or CMSs. However, I did work at Liberty Mutual in the past as a Business Analyst and did work with developers on a daily basis. I learned enough about that particular system to be dangerous.

My goal for this course is to understand the basics of Drupal. I am currently in training as a project manager for a friend's web development company. Knowing as much as possible about Drupal will benefit me while working with our clients and developers.

Erin

Hi, I'm Topher. I've been a php coder for about 12 years now, and need to get up to speed with Drupal. I signed up for this class about a week ago, but never got any confirmation or instructions. Then the other day I got about 25 emails from people talking about a webinar, things they'd done for the class etc.

I take it the class has started? I've sent some emails to admin@p2pu.org but there's no response. Is someone leading the class? What should be my next step?

Thanks Heather for the opportunity to be a part of your teaching/sharing experience! I really support the learning experiences that are cropping up in the Drupal community; there is a lot of knowledge that remains relatively untapped if you are a "newbie" or an extremely shy person. It is really helping me cement some minor gaps in my self-learning process. This was also the first podcast I have listened to from Doug Vann and I thought it was very information packed, clear and easy to follow.

Hello World!

I'm FLOSS fanboy although I still use OS X and run Win in Virtualbox.

I came across CMS after being limited in propriety e-commerce site.

I have a lot of Joomla! experience, and some Wordpress and have been active in the Toronto meetup groups.

Looked at a lot of apps/platforms that where best in breed but more recently "drank the Drupal kook-aid".

I love the modular approach that lets you do so much with the same backend and "eat your own dog food".

This year I will explore CiviCRM and Open Atrium for two non-profits I'm involved with, network with folks like yourselves and mind map the hell out of Drupal.

Hello.!

I am also familiar with Wordpress, and a novice in Joomla as well.

My personal goals:

My goals for this participating in this course is Configure Drupal to develop Web Sites.

Hi I am harinee kind of joining late for the course. But quite happy to be accepted. I have done web development in Java and PHP but have been out of both for sometime as I am into management. But I am interested in building my own site hence the need to learn Drupal.Thanks again

Hey all,
I'm zander. I know a bit of php and css
worked with it for a while now....
I wanted to know other languages also.....
so I would like to learn drupal.
Thanks,
zander...