drupal

for about the last six months i have been getting my feet wet with a cms that is new to me. everyone pronounces it a little differently, dependent upon where your from on this planet. to this north carolina native it’s, “druple.” in actuality, it’s drupal.

i was introduced to this open source cms about six months ago at my 9-5, s&a cherokee. the list of possibilities with this cms seemed endless. we could now build sites on a platform that they were truley meant to be built on. for awhile, we built non blog oriented sites on the wordpress platform. don’t get me wrong, i love wordpress, but it is truley meant for blogging and we were strectching it and using it in ways that left us restricted and sometimes frustrated.

back to drupal. the learning curve for drupal wasn’t terribly bad as i look back on it. i have never been a css whiz and don’t claim to be one now, but working in drupal has forced me to step up my skills in css coding, specifically for building themes. at times i would get frustrated with drupal, but now realize i was frustrated at myself for not knowing css as well as i should. i have to give much props to a great firefox extension, firebug. it has helped me so many times. if you’re a web designer/developer and you’re struggling with coding, download it and give it a shot.

i could go a lot more in depth into drupal, but right now i’m running short on time. i’ll try to make it a point to write about it more in the future for those who are interested. until then, check out the latest site we’ve built at s&a cherokee on an iteration of the drupal platform named webexpress publisher from our partners over at global media solutions. it is the site for nc magazine, the official publication of the north carolina chamber.