<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the comments, folks. They verify my intuition and impressions. Here's hoping for a great new release for version 7.<div><br></div><div>By the way, I installed the Administer module (for Drupal 6) and it makes access to administration functions a lot quicker.</div><div>Regards,</div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-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; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-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; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">William A. Prothero</span></span></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://earthednet.org/">http://earthednet.org/</a></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Metzler, David wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Best answered by visiting: </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://drupal.org/about/new-in-drupal-7">http://drupal.org/about/new-in-drupal-7</a></font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">But compelling is a pretty subjective thing of course. </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="239480318-06122010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">IMHO: I would generally not encourage new users to be beta users of any product, so don't feel bad about adopting drupal 6 as a newbie right now. </font></span></div><br> <div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> support-bounces@drupal.org [<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>prothero<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 06, 2010 8:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [support] Drupal 7 not ready yet<br></font><br></div> <div></div>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. <div>Bill</div> <div><br> <div apple-content-edited="true"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 14px Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto" class="Apple-style-span"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span">William A. Prothero</span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://earthednet.org/">http://earthednet.org/</a></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></div><br> <div> <div>On Dec 5, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Roger wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div><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> ]<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div> -- <br>[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a> ]</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>