Back again -- about Drupal
Seems like a long time, but I'm back working on my computer careers site.

I just put up my new article in a year (or maybe two) -- Drupal for Not Yet Techies.

Drupal's a content management system/web site design software program that is primarily for allowing groups of people to communicate with each other. But I first heard of it on a discussion forum for webmasters and Internet marketers.

Hey, it's free! Unfortunately, that also means that all documentation is written by techies for techies and so it's rough going for the rest of us.

Last night I realized why such documentation is so hard for everybody else.

It's like chefs writing recipes for other chefs.

If you're told to boil an egg for two minutes, but you don't know what "boil" means -- you can't cook that egg.

Most people know how to boil an egg, but chefs must learn many esoteric cooking techniques and recipes. So if you were to read a high class recipe, you'd be scratching your head.

So when a techie writes instructions telling you to configure the "mod" file, that's fine if you know how to configure the mod file. If you don't, you need help deciphering the instructions.

If you don't know how to configure files, I suggest you stay away from Drupal or have an expert on hand to call on when you need it.

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- posted by RickStooker @ 8:43 AM (0) comments