Basic beginner site building

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LarryZ's picture

Where does one begin? I do see several beginner oriented topics. I created pages, stories, blocks, blogs, forums, etc., individually. I've been looking at views. Should one just go to views to create the previous items? I learn ways to accomplish things and then later discover something else. Drupal keeps moving forward and improving. What are the tools and techniques one should use today?

Can there be a Drupal only focus? I've seen and heard other such discussions but they always get compounded with PHP, CCK, CCS, Javascript...... Are there differences for Windows users?

I apologize if this is too similar to other suggestions but I do not know how many other beginners there are and if they provide input.

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Good question, but wrong tagging/location

winston's picture

@winderama, very good question. Something I think the organizers will need to give serious thought to. We've traditionally had a strong program for the truly intro folks. I'll start this conversation.

However, the correct place to post a session proposal that you want someone else to do (i.e. you're not leading it) is to post it as a comment to this thread...

http://groups.drupal.org/node/76048

Can you go over there and post this again just for the record?

With that in mind I removed the tags that were making this appear as a session proposal that you were leading.

Thanks for starting this important discussion.

Posted this in much more detail

winston's picture

Posted this in much more detail at...

http://groups.drupal.org/node/76548

Please move any discussion on this over there.

Thanks!