Thought I’d kick off a Drupal thread here. I’ve been doing web dev/design under Drupal for over a decade, and over the past year or so have been doing some very cool things, largely related to advanced content management dealing with general-interest, media-intensive content and (largely) data-driven, university-specific content for faculty, staff and students. My most-used tools are CCK (now part of core) Views and Feeds, as well as a sizable collection of supporting modules, and on the design side I’m a big fan of Zen sub-themes. I’d like to start documenting my workflows and how I use them. Plus a ton of gotcha and general tech/design learnings/best practices. Plus a fair amount of Excel learnings (a tool that is immensely helpful in staging all this stuff during all phases of a project).
Documentation, as is usually the case, a step behind but I’m doing my best to do it as I go, and I’m very committed to getting everything documented in full, and want to expose all of it so that other developers/designers/content-admins can take advantage of this stuff and save time on R&D. Disclaimer: I try, whenever possible, to rely exclusively on publicly-available stuff, i.e. core and contrib modules, vs. custom module development which, while very cool, often pose problems for new/less-skilled/more-busy devs/admins and for people who later inherit systems that rely on them but don’t have access to the minds that created them.
I thought this thread might possibly be of interest to a few other folks here, because at a recent web dev meeting on my campus some of my recent projects and approaches and ideas seemed to garner a lot of interest amongst my peers and colleagues. But I have no idea how many Qt3 people use Drupal.
Anyway, this thread is mostly (for me) a place-holder, and an effort to ascertain interest. If there is much, I’ll start share how-to links and such some time in the next couple of months. And until that happens, I’ll be more than happy to field questions about anything anyone wants to ask.