Drupal administration interview 6
I interviewed a friend who has been using Drupal since 4.6 and recently upgrade to 4.7.
He has a single user blog and recently setup second site for wife to use for science class. ....
How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator?
Beginner
How frequently do you administer your Drupal site?
once a month.
How long do you administer your Drupal site in a single sitting approximately?
checking backups, applying any updates. checking logs/traffic. about 30 minutes to an hour once a month.
Neil has requested more information about what users use Drupal for. Try out some of the questions below to help us come up with the right question.
--How does Drupal help you accomplish your goals as a Drupal Administrator
Easy to admin, web interface. Very little technical knowledge required.
--Why do you use Drupal?
I use Drupal because it has a nice looking presentation and doesn't require any effort on my part to maintain and manage. Ease of implementation. Deploy a new website in a few minutes instead of an all day thing.
--Could you expand on a few minutes?
The frameworks there aleady and with multi-site I just add the site in sites and on the webserver, turn on a few modules and download a theme.
--How does Drupal help the users of your Drupal site?
Web based content update.... Low technical requirement to add content.
Can you get to your Drupal administration pages? -- Validating question
yes.
What are some common Drupal administration tasks that you do?
check logs.
it runs itself....
single user, technical site....
What are some infrequent Drupal administration tasks that you do?
change theme. add new modules.
When I administrate my Drupal site, I find it is easy to? When I administer my Drupal site, I find it hard to?
It's easy to do what I need to do for the most part.
It's more difficult to add new modules.... they don't always work well together.
(i.e. TinyMCE, required JSTools and some additional download. Not all in one place.)
What are some other important Drupal administration tasks that we did not cover above?
nothing I can think of....
Once I setup my site it doesn't need much administration.
Only seriously work on the site admin when I need to enable/add a content type I don't currently have or use, grow bored with the theme, etc....

