Hi Jorge,
On 30 Apr 2011, at 4:47 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
Hello all.
I am learning and studying Drupal. Actually on version 7 since my hosting company (with CPanel) only provide version 7 as option for instaltion with Fantastico. I have been playing with version 7, it works, have had some issues that are very simple and do not work (like having a menu link under a parent one, it just lost the child menu and does not appear in any place. Anyway I am not sure if it is a Drupal BUg or I am doing something wrong. Since I can install rapidly I am starting from zero again to se if maybe I damaged something in some way.
For starters. Do you think it is better to downgrade to 6 (I can install it manually). Or continue with 7?
Depends. *lol*
I have read that 7 is better and easier to learn for newbies.
From what I've seen, it's sweet. The one thing I like most about 7 is that user profiles are more tightly integrated and can be taxonomy tagged. (Haven't really got a working prototype yet, but for me that's a clincher.)
What would be your advice?
Well I cheat a little and try to find nice themes that do everything for me. Not that I can't CSS, but life is too short to push pixels around, and I'm too old. ;)
Check out Danland. It's a great theme.
There are many more out there, but you have to play with them to find the one that suits. (I really like that drupal.org lists the themes by downloads. So you get an instantaneous idea of popularity and traction.)
As far as recommended modules go, it's so hard to say, since it varies from site to site. But modules I can recommend are (in no particular order, and some I purely list as dependencies - or best guesses - as I can't claim any working knowledge whatsoever :):
CKEditor WYSIWYG Views CTools Pathauto Token Insert (or Imagepicker) Colorbox OG ACL Petition VotingAPI Flag Date Search 404 Logintoboggan Nodetype Mollom Blockanonymouslinks Notifications (OR subscriptions! I haven't worked my head around these 2 satisfactorily yet.) Google Analytics Google Adsense
Facebook / Reddit / Digg (um.. whatever), etc integration modules (Recommend/Like) are not on my priority list right now - but they may also be a good exercise for you...
Important: If you do go back to Drupal 6, be sure to standardize on filefield and imagefield, as they are included in Core 7, and will make your upgrade path approachable.
I hope you don't mind, but I've hijacked this thread slightly in the hope that others will recommend their favorite modules, too?
HTH