Hello Fellow Users....
Hello Fellow Drupal Users....
My name is Dale and I'm very new (white belt) to Drupal, Over the last three years or so I converted to Dreamweaver using pure HTML and am now moving to Drupal because it is so powerful and flexible. I'm very new to the process and am reading everything I can get my hands on and watching allot of tutorials.
I own my own (very little) web development company and work primarily for small non-profit or small business owners and plan on expanding that a little as I learn more about this great program. This is not my day job :( but it soon may be as I've spent the last 25 years of my life serving and protecting the public as a Firefighter/Paramedic/Fire Inspector/Fire Investigator/ and currently serve as Fire Marshal in a medium sized Township Government in Ohio U.S.A.
So hello to all and I look forward to learning a lot of each other....
Dale
Hi Dale
Hey there,
Good luck with Drupal. This group is a great place to learn about Drupal. Also those years you learned using Dreamweaver are not wasted, you can build Drupal themes fairly easily inside Dreamweaver.
Dave
Thanks Dave....
Learning alot and this is so powerful, looking forward to learn page layout next. I think I have most some of the mechanics drupal. Going to a users group meeting in our area to try to learn more. Going to try to take a PHP class this winter at a local community college....
Dale
Php class
Yeah that's a good idea if you don't have much programming experience. If you do however, Php is a pretty easy language to pick up by yourself (at least the basics). I just read a book called 'Php in a nutshell', which doesn't go into too much depth on object orientated Php but gets you started really nicely. Includes some of the gotchas which plague php users (like automatic type conversion - lets you right sloppy code and get away with it, and introduce REALLY hard to find bugs).
Dave