I am building a social networking site for a particular sport. I'm using Drupal 6. I've read lots of documentation, a few books and have become quite dangerous. I'm hoping to find someone who would be able to sit down for a couple of 2-3 hr sessions to review what has been done and provide a few pointers. And correct my misunderstanding of how Drupal works. Need some particular help in the Organic Groups area to ensure this is being setup as expected and to understand the features I'm missing. Plus how to handle uploads of images (mainly pictures) and perhaps links to Video hosted by other sites.
Experience with other social networks or concepts would be very beneficial.
We are prepared to pay for the consulting.
I wasn't sure if the best place to post is a job? I would only expect at most 2 days worth of consulting. Although maybe it would grow.
If you are interested please email me. I can meet in either the Santa Cruz or Bay Area.
Thanks,
Comments
similar project
Hi Squashnut,
I'm running an ad similar to yours, also looking for a Drupal ace assistant.
Care to chat by phone, compare notes etc?
Steve
(408)410-3857 cell#
Be glad to chat
Steve,
Let me know a good time to call and we can chat. I live over in the Santa Cruz area but am generally over the hill most days if you want to grab a coffee.
Have a great weekend.
Ciao,
Richard
Over the hill
Richard, is there a way to send PM's on this forum? I went to "contact" but it's sort of "out of the box drupal-like", you can't
tell if it's sending another post, a PM, or an email. Anyway, you have my cell#; call any time; and I am game for coffee either in LG or SC.
fyi I have several Drupal sites in early phases of development, and will be immersing in the Drupalcon next weekend in LA.
So far, it has been rather difficult to find a Drupal specialist developer for my project who's willing to actually
work with me, versus "take it away and come back with a black box solution". That won't work. Joomla, it was easy
to find good co-development help; but after using both to build and run busy sites, I am squarely in the Drupal camp.
However, there is the learning curve issue. I am also not afraid of PHP CSS XHTML, bring it on :)
-sb
Santa Cruz/Bay Area Drupal help
Hi Richard and Steve,
I'm sorry you've had problems finding Drupal help in the south bay area. I'll be in LA for DrupalCampLA next weekend as well. If you want to chat about your projects, let me know. I live in Santa Cruz, and we will be getting a Drupal Users Group up and running here in the next month. Hopefully we'll expose and bring together more Drupal resources for you both when that group gets together. In the meantime, let me know if you'd like to chat about your respective projects.
Cheers,
Rob Knight
robdotknight@gmail.com
Drupal help
I have been trying to find someone local to work with me on Drupal for 3 weeks. A couple of web guys
convinced me; but they turned out to be just PHP intermediate level guys, who immediately wanted to
start hacking the Drupal PHP core source code, hack the CSS from Firebug, etc. I am really amazed
that there is no response to my high profile ads on Craigslist, Groups.Drupal, etc - except for from html, flash,
sometimes php developers - but not yet, a single person who really seems to know drupal theming, modules,
etc. who wants to train and work along side me. This is not a "take it away and do it" project, so i
attributed it to that; however I'm a fun guy to work with:) And on the Joomla side, i can get help
all day.
I worked with Joomla for 6 months, and have an integrated blog+website that runs it.
But I slowly came to appreciate Drupal's intrinsic, architectural advantages, and decided to
switch my learning curve investment onto it. I've run a blog on Drupal before so I'm not a complete newbie.
Yes, I am interested in talking about my drupal project -- I am heavy into it with my 2nd
developer from Asia, and they are a disappointment. But I do not want to just "turn this
over" to someone - it is more of a training thing.
I appreciate your response!
steve
high level skills - high-level training
Hi Steve -
I can imagine it's frustrating - the Drupal world is growing so fast, and the people with skills are all solidly booked (I know, I'm looking for Drupal developers all the time). What you're looking for are some pretty key - and high-level - skills. Theming requires all the regular design implementation background plus a good grasp of PHP. Developing custom modules is also a pretty high-level developer thing. These are pretty time and skill-intensive, and to make side-by-side mentoring work well, the mentor also has to be patient and good at explaining things (ever had a techie whip through a demo that made no sense?)...
I wonder if - between you, squash and some others - we couldn't put together a high-level Drupal theming / training session? I've been wanting to do this for a few months. We've got the space at PariSoMa and there are several people who could do the training - but it would be great to get a commitment from about 4-5 people to make it worthwhile.
??
The Smoking Goat aka Greg Beuthin
http://www.parisoma.com
http://consultinggoat.wordpress.com
The Smoking Goat aka Greg Beuthin
http://www.commerceguys.com
I'd commit to this session.
I'd commit to this session. Let me know what I can do to help get it off the ground.
Interested
Hi,
I would be interested in such a session. Please keep me informed.
Thanks,
Sadie
I'm in drupal every day for
I'm in drupal every day for 18 hours a day now, attending drupalcamps, getting training reading books watching videos etc, and taking php/css classes at local univ... so maybe i can teach some aspects by the time a session like this is held:) or at least share my experience ramping up on drupal. i've run drupal and joomla sites+blogs of my own in the past, that were designed to my specs - but now i am learning to build much more complex drupal applications.
craigslist??
hello.my husband and i started a new service&posted it to craigslist..have had several responses,but we need to know how may hit our page has recieved...does anyone know how to check?thanksm.m.
@seanzwife: If it's a drupal
@seanzwife:
If it's a drupal site and you have the statistics module enabled, you can get some info at
admin/reports(Administer -> Reports).Otherwise, check with your hosting provider for information on accessing your account's web stats.
google
There is a google analytics module you can install and it adds the google tracker code to your pages. Takes only barely more effort than going through logs but provides very good information