Chris, With all due respect, I think how fast/easy you pick up Drupal depends on your prior experience. I have many years experience doing traditional programming (c, .net, etc). I was able to get rolling with Drupal fairly painlessly (set up the menu structure, start adding content). Granted, as I continue on there are some tough hurdles. Views, Content Types for instance. That was tough, but I'm getting there. I know there are a lot of hurdles yet to come. As a coder, I solved some problems with PHP code behind the scenes. But, as I got close to making it work, I started understanding how I could have done the same thing entirely within Drupal with no PHP outside. It's been a strange trip indeed. Phil
I had this experience lately from another angle. Was teaching a php programmer to develop a site in Drupal 7 but they didn't get it and kept reverting back to hacking the core, modules and themes instead of just doing the drupal thing and using the tools. Go figure! Roger