Posted by mansoor.k on January 4, 2009 at 2:01pm
Hi All,
I am a newbie in Drupal. Which drupal version 5 or 6 will be idle to go for a newspaper site. Are there enough stable modules in 6 that will leverage a newspaper site and also themes that I can start on. From the basic reading I did on drupal site, I find ZEN is the best theme to start on developing new themes but I dont find a stable version of ZEN in 6.
Any ideas, input highly appreciated.
Thanks a lot
Mansoor
Comments
D6
You'd be doing yourself a disservice to start a new site on D5 now. You would be much better off using D6 and helping along any modules that aren't quite there yet.
Michelle
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I am using 6 on my fairly
I am using 6 on my fairly new site, with Views and CCK. Since Panels was/is not ready and I am completely new to Drupal, I am using the newswire theme which gave me enough areas on the page to get a little creative. The layout might be redone with Panels eventually, but the customer is happy so far and the site looks much better than the FrontPage web site that they had before.
HI, Go right ahead and use
HI,
Go right ahead and use only Drupal 6!With Views and CCKs you can now build just about any site in Drupal 6 with ease. Zen is definitely the best place to start Drupal theming!
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panels
A shame Panels is still under heavy development for the D6 branch, though. But as Michelle said, if you have an it-staff you could fix any remaining problems yourself.
5 for us
We're still building on D5. When we began, Views and CCK weren't even close to ready, and we find Panels essential.
As for Zen ... well, that's not an issue for us. We create our own themes from scratch. It's not that hard.
Panels
Panels is moving along nicely. Most sites will take at least a month or two to build so I wouldn't let panels hold you back. Panels 2 is quite usable and there will be an upgrade path to panels 3.
Michelle
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If the time is the question - 5 is good choice
I think it depends on your situation of course. I was forced to start to learn drupal (after Joomla) because this system is really good for newspaper, that is my current project.
But after 1,5 month I understood that 5 is more stable and developed than 6.
In my situation 5 is better because I have only 3 month to start project.
D6 or D5
We used D5 only because key modules weren't available to us when we started. If you are starting from scratch I'd say go with D6. As others have noted, CCK, Panels, and Views are essential. I'd also recommend ImageCache and ImageField.
Good luck!
impact of D7?
If your a worker bee, like me, you know that people seem to want to hold off on "risky" upgrades, unless absolutely necessary. So if you have a live D5 site, do you think that development on D7(which I've read will be considerably different) will discourage people from moving to D6?
Not really
D7 won't be out for quite some time, end of this year or maybe the start of the next. It won't be any different from D6 than D6 was from D5 and D5 from D4.7. Some people get all worked up because there's work being done on D7 but that's how it's always been with Drupal, one version on maintainance, one current, and one in development. There's always going to be people who choose to skip a major version to get more life out of their current site. And there's always going to be others who want to stay current. Nothing special about D7 in that regard. Really the only difference is that the unusual contrib lag has had people holding off on D6 for far longer than normal so that could influence more to wait for D7 to upgrade. But that was the fault of the D6 cycle, not D7.
Michelle
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