I'm the project manager for a large website.<br>I've been hired to take over for a contract that is 3 months overdue.<br>The programmer chose drupal and has a substantial but not-functional site designed.<br>The owner wants to use the design, but doesn't like drupal's layout which is more suited for blogs than a commercial venue.<br>I offered to copy the drupal layout into HTML pages and solve the infamous drupal screen resizing problems.<br>This also allows us to walk-around drupal on its other limitations such as custom templates not fitting standard modules.<br>The problems getting drupal to output back IN to the HTML. I've no problem submitting the data correctly, but drupal always "wants" to output a full html page when all I want it to do is give me back the SQL data and some content.<br><br>When I use a FORM action I can direct drupal to another page, but this only works haphazardly, and I'd like a more seemless interaction with drupal NOT handling the HTML!<br><br>I
really need some suggestions on this.<br><br>The drupal programmer went on VACATION with the contract still unfilled and now four months overdue. We are paying 250.00 a day in site expenses until I can solve this problem, allowing us to terminate the contract and apply for remunerations.<br><br>If it were not for the active and supportive drupal community, this programmer would have burned me forever - causing me to hate drupal. We bought the drupal book and I've been using it, and I'm slowly starting to like it, despite its limitations.<br><br>I've only been learning drupal for 45 days and have this dysfunctional site dropped in my lap so I've really got my hands full: deciding which directions to lead, reviewing whether to abandon the entire product, to continue using drupal, and so on. This is quite a headache. Has anyone else had this happen to them? What did you do?<br><br>My reaction after nearly 2 months at this, trying to squeeze more work
out of a contractor, is to ditch drupal and use straight html with a shopping cart from our host company. I don't hate it, but it stands between us and commercial success.<br><br>D<br><br><br><br><b><i>Greg Knaddison - GVS <Greg@GrowingVentureSolutions.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 8/10/06, Josh Milane <jmilane@ulem.org> wrote:<br>> Wikipage<br>><br>> I guess I am doing it wrong.<br><br>Did you enable the correct access control for the module?<br><br>><br>> I cant wrap my head around Drupal.<br><br>It can be little confusing at first (as are all CMS/CBF), but gets<br>easier and is well worth a little effort.<br><br>Regards,<br>Greg<br><br><br>-- <br>Greg Knaddison | Growing Venture Solutions<br>Denver, CO | http://growingventuresolutions.com<br>Technology Solutions for Communities, Individuals, and Small Businesses<br>-- <br>[ Drupal support list |
http://lists.drupal.org/ ]<br></jmilane@ulem.org></blockquote><br><p> 
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