Posted by elliotttt on June 23, 2007 at 5:36pm
I've been doing a series of videocasts at http://www.theartlab.net/podcast/drupal-school for a few months now with the goal of showing new Drupal users "how things can work".
I'd like to keep things directed at making it easy for new users to jump and and get their head around some of the terminology, how drupal.org works, and where they can get more info.
What do types of topics do you think would be most beneficial to new users? What are some of the concepts you can think of that are easy to a developer, but like flying a space ship to a new user? Any other suggestions?
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Forms
I've been using Drupal for quite a while, but, still have trouble "getting my head around" forms. Perhaps a review of the various form builder modules and a brief peak at more advanced topics would be useful to the neophytes.
More short theming!
Thanks for the wonderful screencasts!
I (and I'm pretty sure many with me) would appreciate some more screencasts on theming. I think short screencasts focusing on one single task are the most useful (at least when compared to how much effort is needed to create them) - like the clip where you show how to add a new region to a theme.
Some suggestions for short screencasts:
* how to modify how author and tags are displayed with a node
* how to add special layouts to selected parts of a site (eg site sections)
* how to add special layouts to selected node types
Thanks again for the screencasts.
//Johan Falk, Sweden