Comments on: Don’t Dump Drupal – It is Powerful http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/01/dont-dump-drupal-it-is-powerful/ A Christian technology chaos wrangler and his thoughts Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:13:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/01/dont-dump-drupal-it-is-powerful/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Tom Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:32:22 +0000 http://blog.tech4him.com/?p=178#comment-18 Thanks for the comments and welcome to the Tech4Him blog. Definitely understand your thought process. I think this was a great example of how we, as part of the Drupal community, have failed to provide easily accessed, packaged and descriptive documentation. Perhaps the outcome could have been different and perhaps Drupal was not the right choice. Sounds like you did get a solution that works for you. Blessings to you. Thanks for the comments and welcome to the Tech4Him blog. Definitely understand your thought process. I think this was a great example of how we, as part of the Drupal community, have failed to provide easily accessed, packaged and descriptive documentation. Perhaps the outcome could have been different and perhaps Drupal was not the right choice. Sounds like you did get a solution that works for you.

Blessings to you.

]]> By: DirtMind http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/01/dont-dump-drupal-it-is-powerful/comment-page-1/#comment-17 DirtMind Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:24:28 +0000 http://blog.tech4him.com/?p=178#comment-17 Hi, I'm the author of the mentioned blog dumping Drupal. Just to clarify I did say in my post I was sure these things could be done and I can see why it would be useful for people with no programming/html skills. However from what I looked at it was more complex to learn Drupal than php, then I could do everything I wanted on my site with html/css etc. So I'm not saying Drupal isn't powerful, and it's great for people that want something up and running quickly but it appeared to me, with my skillset, to be an over-engineered solution. If you look at my homepage you'll see it is deeply integrated into my forum software, and after dumping Drupal it only took me about 2 solid daya to setup. Sorry but I'm glad I dropped Drupal in favour of extending the phpBB architecture. In another post I describe the techniques I used: http://dirtmind.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/extending-phpbb3/ Hi, I’m the author of the mentioned blog dumping Drupal. Just to clarify I did say in my post I was sure these things could be done and I can see why it would be useful for people with no programming/html skills. However from what I looked at it was more complex to learn Drupal than php, then I could do everything I wanted on my site with html/css etc.

So I’m not saying Drupal isn’t powerful, and it’s great for people that want something up and running quickly but it appeared to me, with my skillset, to be an over-engineered solution. If you look at my homepage you’ll see it is deeply integrated into my forum software, and after dumping Drupal it only took me about 2 solid daya to setup. Sorry but I’m glad I dropped Drupal in favour of extending the phpBB architecture. In another post I describe the techniques I used: http://dirtmind.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/extending-phpbb3/

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