<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am working on some recommendations for a client and I noticed something : Nowhere on the front page of Drupal is there a link to the minimum requirements needed for running it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Neither of the following pages state it either :</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupal.org/about">http://drupal.org/about</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupal.org/handbook/is-drupal-right-for-you">http://drupal.org/handbook/is-drupal-right-for-you</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupal.org/handbook/version-info">http://drupal.org/handbook/version-info</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have to go 8 pages deep to find in this page a link : </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupal.org/node/43438">http://drupal.org/node/43438</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The page does not address users but "professional consultants". </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So from there I get to here:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupal.org/node/270">http://drupal.org/node/270</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I may be missing something but could not find in the top half of the front page any links to this information. Nor is there any link available in the downloads page for the Drupal Project.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://drupal.org/project/Drupal+project">http://drupal.org/project/Drupal+project</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As you noticed, I did not go to the handbook directly. It's the last place for me to check. My instinct is to look in "About Drupal" or the Downloads page. Not the handbooks. I search for information on web page like most people : Not by reading but scanning for information. And reading a handbook is the last thing I want to do when looking for quick answers. No wonder my client was flumoxed when scanning for information around the Drupal site. They said they couldn't find anything they were looking for : a quick checklist of requirements with maybe a list of hosts that could potentially run the system. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Comments?</DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Liza Sabater, Publisher</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">www.culturekitchen.com</P></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><BR></BODY></HTML>