Posted by Ben Finklea on September 3, 2012 at 1:55pm
Capturing the idea from this comment:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/251648#comment-811263
What are the best practices for delivering a website in Drupal that is easy and elegant for content creators? How would we give users a happy WordPress editor feeling? What is the best method for showing only the things they need on the admin screens? On the node edit form?
Please post your suggestions in the comments and we'll work on a proposal.
Comments
Spark
There's a lot of work going on over here on making it easier for people to manage content. There's lots of issues to be worked on and other ways of helping, someone could perhaps reach out to them and find out exactly what is needed to help:
http://drupal.org/project/spark
That's awesome! I've seen
That's awesome! I've seen demos but they've come a long way. This addresses one aspect of Drupal's perceived difficulty gap. What about admin screens for content creators? Updating core? Modules? Not being a developer, I could dig around and try to find some things but you probably know a bunch of stuff off the top of your head. Let's get it all into one place and make an instructional white paper, "Making Drupal Easy for Users".
Just ideating. People keep saying Drupal is not harder if you configure it properly. Fine. Let's tell people how to do that.
Ben Finklea
Chair, Drupal Branding and Marketing* Committee
*BAM!
Making Drupal Easy
See my comment on mindset competitors:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/251653#comment-812123
There's efforts like Apps who's goal it is to make things easier for end users to add functionality easily and maintainable. Apps are like features but with more stuff, like demo content, etc.