[support] Do you *really* have to be a programmer - was Re: Newbie question on concept

[Victor Kane]

You are right, Earnie, but we really mustn't forget to make it clear that
there are tons of customizable features in Drupal where no programming is
necessary at all. And you can learn it all in the Drupal built-in help and
in the drupal.org handbooks.

On 4/25/07, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Krister Ekstrom <krister at kristersplace.ws>:
>
> > Hi,
> > In the message quoted below you talked a lot of having to make ones own
> > code to get around in Drupal. I know i'm a newbie to all this CMS stuff
> > and i consider myself an idiot when it comes to programming in any shape
> > or form even though i know a tiny little bit about Javascript but not
> > enough by far to get around, partly because i have a terrible memory for
> > syntax, so my question is do i really need to know about programming to
> > be able to manage Drupal?
> > I chose to go with a CMS because as a blind person it can be quite
> > tricky to do layout and contents that looks desent and more atractive
> > than working in a standard html editor, but if you have to learn how to
> > hack in order to manage this, maybe it's time to think again.
> > /Krister
> >
>
> The programming parts would have to do with customizing beyond what is
> already available.  If you don't want the default available then you
> need to be able to program around it or ask someone else to do it.
>
> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com
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