Op vrijdag 20 januari 2006 17:14, schreef Earl Miles:

Drupal, as with most software, is learn-by-doing, but asking questions is ok. Sometimes you'll get a question that seems really really obvious to everyone, but each person's experience with Drupal is unique, and it's easy to miss something along the way.

I would like to add, that we, as experienced Drupal users too often oversee the obvious things. Ther is no such thing as a stupid question, taht we, the developers and writers cannot learn a lot from.

Example: I give a lot of support over IM. A user asked me how he could log into his new site. his name was rudy. "I tried everything: ?q= no ?q=/. i enabled and disabled clean urls. I asked my provider about mod_rewrite. and so on and so on." (showing he did a lot of reading!) - hmm strange. you did go to user/login? not user/register or so? "no. I tried all sorts of users, but none seem to work" - All sorts of users, what do you mean? "well, I know that before i logged out, I made some other users" - Me ah so you used them under /user/login, but non gave you acces. "I get a 404 all the time. with rudy/login, with testuser/login etcetc."

TADA! there it was. Somehow he figured he should have replaced the word user with his username. and so browsing to example.com/rudy/login

the "example.com", we could out later, was what made him think that. If you have to replace example with yourdomain, then why not user with yourusername.

Anyway, a funny thing. We had a laugh. And I learned two things: * New users, asking obvious questions are helping me a lot. I log al these on my dutch blog / helpdesk (help.sympal.nl) People give me a lot to write about. * We take a lot for granted. That is not bad, but we must, at all times consider and remember that fact.

Bèr