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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think Drupal 6 is great, but I also think it’s rather lacking in the usability department. For the past few months, I’ve been evaluating Drupal 7, and I am extremely impressed by the new interface, which is an immense improvement both visually and in usability. I also think it’s a great move to bring CCK into core. Other than that, many of the more interesting improvements are taking place underneath the hood, such as moving over to PDO for the database. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In the short term, I think we’ll see Drupal 7 fall way behind D6 in available modules, but over time, I’m guessing that the usability improvements will bring in more users (perhaps even peel off some WordPress folks) and the API improvements will bring in more developers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you were about to start a new major web project, I think it would be worthwhile to evaluate Drupal 7, but I wouldn’t blame you for picking Drupal 6 just for the contributed modules.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>prothero<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 06, 2010 11:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> support@drupal.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [support] Drupal 7 not ready yet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm wondering what the compelling improvement is for Drupal 7? I see feature lists, but for me, a newbie, I can't find that list of why Drupal 7 is so much better.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>William A. Prothero</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://earthednet.org/">http://earthednet.org/</a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Dec 5, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Roger wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><snip><br>FYI, I tried Drupal 7 (also as a new user) and found it not ready for <br>newbies to use. Many of the themes and modules have not been updated yet,<br></snip><br><br>I'm saddened by this also.<br>I want to start building a Drupal 7 site but even basic well known and <br>desperately needed modules and themes have the famous "I pledge that <br>this or that will be ready when Drupal 7 is released".<br>Surely, now that the code is locked (Drupalcon June 2010) we can have <br>some of the more well known modules.<br>My basic Drupal 7 was killed by a D7 beta update last week after getting <br>views almost working, had to reinstall the pre update release.<br>I'd love to be working with D7.<br>Roger<br>-- <br>[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>