I host better than a dozen Drupal sites, and while I am planning to switch my dev site to D7 in about 6 mos, if that goes well, I’ll begin to move my client sites when I discover the support for D7 (newer and better modules) is better than D6.  I don’t want to expose my clients to “The Bleeding Edge”.

 

Warren Vail


From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of prothero
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 1:01 PM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Which one is preferable - Drupal 6 OR Drupal 7

 

Austin:

I'm not meaning to recommend that you start with Drupal 6. Eventually, we will all want to change to version 7. I just wanted to warn of some potential difficulties for 6 mo or so, and it is hard enough to get up to speed with Drupal, without having to deal with bugs and limited documentation.

Bill

 

William A. Prothero

http://earthednet.org/



 

On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:43 PM, prothero wrote:



Re Drupal 7 books, when I went to Amazon, I read some of the reviews of 

"Pro Drupal Development 3rd edition for D7 by John K. VanDyk & Todd Tomlinson"

 

 and the book was written before Drupal 7 was released. That gave me pause. BUT, there was a suppor web site for updates, so that may have solved the problems. It will take awhile for the incredibly rich module library to be updated to D7, but maybe only the best supported will be updated early and that will make it easier to select the most robust ones for the very huge selection of modules.

Good luck,

 

Bill

William A. Prothero



 

On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Neil Adair wrote:



There are also some basic Drupal 7 screencasts at http://drupaltherapy.com/date_d7

D7 is much simpler to install and maintain with many features in built into core such as CCK and Image.

Neil

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Cory Gilliam <imaaxa@gmail.com> wrote:

Check out www.lynda.com. They have training videos on both D6 and D7. Also www.lullabot.com has a lot of information on both.

Pro Drupal Development 2nd edition for D6 by John K. VanDyk, ISBN 978-1-4302-0989-8. Pro Drupal Development 3rd edition for D7 by John K. VanDyk & Todd Tomlinson, ISBN 978-1-432-2838-7

Cory

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