I've been recently hired by a Public High School in downtown Boston and after displaying some level of technical proficiency, the school has decided to make me their official Drupal person with the first project being to overhaul the existing Alumni Website. I have never worked with a CMS and have made it clear to them that this is something I will have to learn...
I am very new to this sort of thing, but it seems to me the site I am taking over is an incredible mess with so many aspects far more cumbersome and confusing to the users than it could be. The site is also very feature-lite. I created a new subdomain and installed Drupal on it so I could get my feet wet tinkering and learning the basics of Drupal and progress on that front has been slow-going.
And for the wonderful people here I have a few questions: There is much documentation for Drupal, what beginner's documentation have you found most helpful to getting started? And have any of you been placed in a situation of taking over someone else's Drupal work, and if so how did you go about doing it?
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Alumni site
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Did you have luck using Drupal to make an Alumni sIte?
The keeper of my school's alumni site died this week, so I want to preserve his legacy and add functions - like upload user photos and bios, guest book, reunion date keeper, reunion memories, e-mailers, personal messaging...