So I joined the Drupal-dojo group and I'm trying to keep up, but they move fast! I started watching the lesson #1 video (screencast):
http://www.webavant.com/drupaldojo/2007_01_04_swf/
I finally installed the Devel module and all I can say is this is soooo coool! Never have I seen a framework provide such a tool for the developers to use.
If you are a developer like me, you may have your web server set up to show all errors. Well this does not work so well with Devel since it starts to show tons of Notice errors. I changed the error reporting in index.php:
So far implementing my new site in Drupal is going well. Each time I think Drupal is too restrictive I find that I just didn't know how to use it. So far I'm using the following core modules and contrib modules:
contact
help
image
image_gallery
img_assist
menu
page
path
profile
search
story
taxonomy
tracker
upload
views
views_rss
views_theme_wizard
views_ui
I'm runinng Drupal 4.7.3 so it's hard to tell what's core and what's not. I know I downloaded and installed the following contrib modules:
image
img_assist
views
Very impressed with img_assist and the flexibility to use it with all different input formats. I had trouble at first because I'm using Full HTML input format for several key pages. At first, images uploaded using img_assist would display only with input format Filtered HTML. Finally I took the time to search drupal.org which solved my problem.