[support] Upgrade to Drupal 5?

[Larry Garfield]

Drupal doesn't do that out of the box, but, as is Drupal standard, "there's a module for that!" :-)  There is an increasing amount of work to do the further you want to get from the default look and workflow.  If you're willing to put in the effort, you can make Drupal look and act not a thing like Drupal.  How much effort you're able and willing to put in is up to you.

Each new version of Drupal, hopefully, lowers that curve so you can get farther with less work, but it can't be eliminated completely.

--Larry Garfield

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:45:34 -0400, Allen Stern <allen at centernetworks.com> wrote:
> There are many things that frustrated me when I started with drupal so I
> just edited them - not realizing it would mess up future upgrades.
> 
> Frankly there are still a lot of things that frustrate me - how links
> are placed after a story, size of boxes, comment flow, no ability for
> people to get emails when comments are replied to, etc. Mostly nitpicky
> stuff but it has made me disappointed that my site isn't perfect (or
> even 90%).
> 
> -- Allen
> 
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Allen Stern wrote:
>>
>>> FYI - I moved my drupal site (www.centernetworks.com) from 4.7 to 5
> last
>>> month - I was quite worried because I edited the core along with just
>>> tons of edits. I found the process to be painless and took about 3 hrs
>>> to get everything back the way I wanted it. Some tweaks to the template
>>> were the trickiest if I remember.
>>>
>>
>> You edited the *core*? Wow.
>>
>> As a matter of fact, I've tweaked the templates too and that's part of
>> what I was worried about. I use the '$user' variable in a couple of
> places.
>>
>>
>>> Just make sure you watch the upgrade video and back up everything!
>>>
>>
>> Will do. I think I'll first setup a basic Drupal 5 site (I got a new
>> order) to get a feel for the software, then I'll upgrade a less
>> important site that I also administer and then upgrade the "mission
>> critical" site.
>>
>> Question: I know that you can have multiple sites on the same Drupal
>> installation. But can each site have a different set of modules? I admin
>> more than one site, but they are all totally different.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel.
>>
> 
> --
> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]