Pat:
I'm a Drupal newbie too. I decided that version 7 wasn't ready yet for newbies. This is based on the many modules that aren't updated and the dearth of books. Drupal 7 promises a better administration interface and more speed. However, those improvements aren't enough to warrant struggling with a very new, not quite released version.
Good luck,
Bill

William A. Prothero

http://earthednet.org/




On Dec 27, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Pat Newberry wrote:

I don't actually have any question, but wanted to get my feet wet and at
least say hello.

I'll be working on a Drupal site for a none profit organization and
figure at some point I might have a question or at the very least might
want to read what others are asking.

I've got a local drupal test environment set up on my windows laptop
using xammp.

the organization I work for has a linux site where I have second semi
production drupal site (both are 6.x site right now)

I've been debating on going with 7.x ... but figured I hold off for a
bit on that.  I'm pretty much in the learning stage now, working thru
the Pro-Drupal  book that uses version 6.x so that is why I'm going to
stick with that for the moment.

My first proof of concept will be a survey form. I've installed the
webform module and it seems pretty easy to use.

The results page is not too exciting, so I plan on doing something else
to display parts of the results in a more graphic form (pie chart, bar
graphs etc) Will need to research more on the options available to me in
that area.

Pat Newberry

www.gypsyfarm.com



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