Very nice roundup! Thanks!

Yayy ! First ! :P

Great Article ! Keep it coming guys!

EDIT:- OH SHIT! This Beer guy came first!

anyhow I saw it FIRST !! yayyy! :P

Great resource as always. I am looking for some more “original” resources like you did about google pagerank. That was a blast!

Dugg the story. Link [digg.com]

thanks for the very thorough roundup! i’ll be sure to read it when i decide i need drupal :)

Fantastic post, I have been a long time fan of drupal and this backs that up.

definitely bookmarking it…

Really a great article. Thanks for all these great ressources !

Wow, there goes my afternoon…

It’s remarkable that the Views module is not listed in the Modules section, since it’s one of the most popular, powerful and widely used Drupal modules.

I digg the Drupal love and great roundup of important Drupal resources.

I’d like to see a follow up post put together by a Drupal expert that points to the best of Drupal 6 theming resources. Also, a post on how to blog, or multi-author blog with Drupal.

Great stuff. Thx Smashing and Steven.

Great post. Thanks

this now comes very handy, I’ve to say .. :)

This is so great , thx for this

Thanks for this post, it could not have come at a better time for me as I am about to use drupal for a new community site.

Amazing… this is the kind of roll up I am looking for.

Thanks for featuring Drupal! Should’ve thrown this at a Drupaller though, I’m sure it could’ve been prettied up some. Right now its a massive, overwhelming-ness of Drupal (bit like Drupal itself).

Thanks heaps guys!
I’ve just been begged by a friend to update her website which was originally made with Drupal, and knowing absolutely nothing about it this is awesome :)

Drupal is horrible! Long live Ruby on Rails!!!

very nice… thank you!

Developer’s Toolbox for Joomla???

Cool! And now for the Joomla Developer’s Toolbox…

Great Drupal resource/round-up!!

there is a new but nice drupal sites gallery here Link [drupalbased.com]

kool, been waiting for a drupal related post. Keep it coming. Thanks much :)

Great… All About Drupal At One Place..
Thanks,

Here is one another website that we made in Drupal:-

Link [www.lacare.org]

This website pushed Drupal capabilities to the max.

Gaurav

nice, but, what is drupal?
you miss this

Great list. There is lot of appreciation of Drupal as much as there is lot of rant about its founder and his company Acquia trying to create a fork of Drupal. Drupal Community may split if Carbon doesn’t merge with Drupal. Differences are widening between core group and contributors.

thanks i am very much in drupal GREAT HELP

THANKS A LOT!
best article ever for me on SM ;)

Wordpress is very present on the site, that’s a pity you talk about it so much.

Great great, amazing compilation of links and resources.
I blog about Drupal Link [geshan.blogspot.com]. Have a look. Link [geshan.blogspot.com] is a beginners Drupal How to written by Link [www.yipl.com.np] grab it as well.

Woooooow….. This post is making my day !
Drupal, my favorite CMS fully dedicated on my favourite blog…

You guys rocks !

ERROR!
Home page news post links WordPress developers toolkit to Drupal one. :)
Great post on Drupal - cheers!

Whoa! Perfect timing article! I’m about to start a project to a client and it will use Drupal.. You guys must install a script to read your readers mind… (frantically press Ctrl + U)

Stunning article, thanks! Next article is Joomla Developer’s Toolbox… ;)

I’m a Drupal developer for 4 years now. Drupal is more than recommended WEB CMS system to use for web communities.

I’m happy that smashingmagazine published this roundup.

Thank you Steven Snell.

Alleged FOSSLover, cite some source for your claims and identify yourself, or please keep your FUD in certain of your body cavities where it belongs.

Those of us in the Drupal community gladly disagree and argue about everything, but you have made the first mention of a fork that I’ve heard about since Drupy (Drupal on Python instead of PHP, heh).

Drupal is fairly unique in open source projects in being far, far larger than any one group or company – Drupal’s founder Dries Buyteart did not co-found the company Acquia until eight years after starting the project – and that isn’t changing.

Oh, and thanks SmashingMagazine for the nice roundup!

benjamin, Link [AgaricDesign.com]

Great roundup, but some important modules are not listed:

Views - 90% of all sites definitely need this great piece of code.
Panels - helps you to easily layout your content area.
Pathauto - or type every url alias by hand

BTW: Clean URL is a core feature, not a module…

Maybe I should give it a try. You don’t always have to use wordpress.

very usefull and in very proper time for me - I’m starting my first project on Drupal.
So great! Thank you very much!!!!

FOSSLover said: “There is lot of appreciation of Drupal as much as there is lot of rant about its founder and his company Acquia trying to create a fork of Drupal.”

Acquia does not fork Drupal. I’d describe their product as the standard unmodified Drupal core with some added modules and themes. Oh and it’s GPL’ed.
They also keep on working and contributing to Drupal core in the traditional way with the community.

Wow, this is quite the resource! I’m just getting into Drupal and while it was really easy to install it’s very feature rich and extendable. Thankfully there is a large community around to help out.

Pretty much sums up why I gave up on Drupal. Two of the first three links relate to Drupal 5 even though Drupal 6 was released in February. Finding modules that are compatible with the latest version is a nightmare and up to date documentation is sketchy to say the least!

no Joomla!-toolbox, please!

This monster has enough hype, maybe an article “why Joomla is stupid, standard-messy, a deep deep security hole with a lot of amateur-module-developers, without quality standards and without logic for the users and especially for the developers…” could be helpful (at least for our minds…)

this article could as well try to find out why Joomla has such hype at all… brain wash? Is it Microsoft???

I tried to work with Drupal, but the mess of versions made it dfficult and also a certain lack of documentation for beginners..

the listed tutorials and how-tows might help ;=)

Great article. Drupal is fantastic to work with, and heavily customisable. We used it to power one of our projects, a free business listing site called Bizwiki (Link [www.bizwiki.co.uk]) that anyone can register for and edit. Most of the functionality we needed already existed, either in the core or in plugins, but for the rest of it, it was really easy to build what we needed, and customise everything. Two thumbs up for Drupal, use it!

Wonderful! Great! I will point all beginners of Drupal to this page - it’s great!

+1 for ATGP’s comment, particularly regarding the excellent views module.

ATGP said:

Great roundup, but some important modules are not listed:

Views - 90% of all sites definitely need this great piece of code.
Panels - helps you to easily layout your content area.
Pathauto - or type every url alias by hand

BTW: Clean URL is a core feature, not a module…

First I’d like to thank the for a very good roundup of usefull Drupal resources - definetely a must have.

Second I’d like to ask for similar article regarding Joomla! and other popular CMS systems (ExpresionEngine, etc.).

@Connie - I disagree with your opinion. After a year of working with Joomla I’m pretty satisfied with the results, I get what I want pretty quick without problems, the community is big and there plenty of quality modules. I can also say that ALL CMS systems I know ARE NOT beginner firendly (all of them require the user to have some php, mysql, html, css savvyness) and not everybody can deal with them. So theres still place for something new that even my mom will be able to use.

Great article…thumbs up for this post!

great collection on my favorite cms. thank you sm!

Hey Thanks a bunch Smashing! Ive been waiting for some decent Drupal coverage!

A gallery not just of Drupal sites, but nice Drupal sites: Link [www.drupalmuseum.com]

love the article

Great post for someone looking to get handle on Drupal.

mike : Beauty of Open Source is that you can always upgrade modules and contribute them back or even better is to become co-maintainer or write new modules for new features and keep them up to date.

FOSSLover : Carbon is much awaited and I’m sure its release will take Drupal to new heights and Dries has time and again stated that he would see Drupal’s interest first. So you don’t need to worry about it.

Roshan
Link [www.gloscon.com]

awesome…

nice to see Drupal getting some recognition here!

I’d love to see some Smashing Drupal themes like the WP ones that’ve been released next!

WOW! Thanks for the resource. This is outstanding. I’m a Drupal fanatic and had no idea all of this was out there.

I will now be utilizing much more of this in my future development.

Link [www.YourGeekGuy.com]

Great! Drupal is a excellent CMS… but, the next article must be JOOMLA DEVELOPER`S TOOLBOX, my favorite CMS

hey this post is truly a gr8 one!! I m a drupal user. And i jus love using Drupal while building wbsites. Its more than just a CMS!! Thanx a lot for this post!

Hey, that’s my theme “A3 Atlantis” in the first screenshot for #4 :)

The download is available from here: Link [drupal.org]

Here’s one to add to the toolbox; Link [drupal.org]. With Pathologic, all those bajillion images in this post won’t appear as broken when viewed at Link [drupal.org] (or in feed readers).

With regards to Übercart, it doesn’t integrate a pre-existing cart solution with Drupal; it is a cart solution, just like Drupal e-commerce. There’s some back and forth on which is better; popular opinion seems to side with Übercart at the moment.

I do really prefer drupal to wordpress in fact it is more safe and I have an access to more themes than WP. Link [www.mapownia.pl]

Thanks! Loved this article!

Thanks for the resources.
I like few of examples though.

Link [www.instantshift.com]

Smashing Magazine is defintively the best graphics and tools for excellent web sources. And one more time you prove it by this excellent compilation of links about the excellent Drupal Open source framework (yes that makes a lot of excellent). I hope that a lot of designers here will take a look on Drupal as - even it’s a wonderful development tool -, there still remains a lot to do in term of graphics image and usability (global look and feel, back office design, templates design, and so on…)
If you want to join the redesign bandwagon there is a special group on Drupal.org (this is an non official call - I’m not member of the lead team)
Link [groups.drupal.org]

Once again thank you Smashing Magazine to give us such very good overall links !!

It would be nice to write some of Joomla! develepor toolbox??

Great Resources!
Just to add to the hype - I’d love to see a Joomla! Developer’s Toolbox!

Thank you so much for doing this. I’m just starting out in Drupal, I this is an excellent resource all in itself.

Great list of resources. Thank you. :)
I would also like to see a Joomla! Developer’s Toolbox. :)

Nice article! like this article!
Thank you so much for doing tihs article.

Very interesting article. Good introduction for beginners.

I’m surprised there’s no mention of any videos or podcasts for developers? It’s mostly all articles.

What about the Lullabots? They rock! They’ve got a tone of developer related podcasts, articles and videos Link [www.lullabot.com]. The Web site Link [gotdrupal.com] is turning out to be helpful too.

And you can’t forget the listing of videos on drupal.org
Link [drupal.org]

The videos on these sites have helped me more than I can remember

Thanks everyone for the feedback and especially for those who have mentioned modules and other items that could have been included. I apologize if something was unfairly left out.

Great article, lots of good stuff here, thanks.

Good stuff. I used to use drupal all the time. But have since gone strictly wordpress.

Link [www.pulsr.com]

Very useful… article added to bookmarks for quick reference.

Link [www.askewedmachine.com]

Sugar Inc. just came out with a new blogging platform powered by Drupal. Definitely worth a look.
Link [www.onsugar.com]

Link [www.iwasp.net]

Looking forward to the Joomla Developer’s Toolbox !

Thanks

This is great guys - about time you started getting on the Drupal bandwagon again!

Jonathan Lambert
Link [www.workhabit.com]
Managed Drupal Cloud Hosting

great article! very useful indeed
next: joomla developer’s toolbox :)

Amazing!!!
Is there a way where I could vote you for president?!
I almost cried even on the first part 1. The basics
Thank you very much for these.

Link [teknodergi.org] for the other locale drupal community sites in turkish.

Great resource, I’ve been looking into adding Drupal to my arsenal, I need to find a site to test it out on first.

Nice can we have some joomla stuff too?

RJ
Link [www.2gbhosting.com]

Nice collection, thanks.

For theming, one may also found helpful Link [themegarden.org] - live preview of contributed drupal themes.

Thanks for informing me about the various ecommerce shopping carts out there.It has been very helpful to my research and here is what,I came up with over the past few days.

There are different types of ecommerce shopping cart available in the market for small as well as large businesses. Whatever business you are running, you must pick a top slot ecommerce shopping cart to boost up your online sale transactions.

The top ecommerce shopping cart for your online shop should be such that it is easily customized with your website. It must incorporate attractive design and shape to your webpages displaying the product range.

Ecommerce shopping cart provides complete business solution to all your online business websites. The main features of the top shopping carts include complete user control.

When a web designer or developer starts working on a website, he requires complete control over the whole process. So the whole process has to be user friendly. The software must be such that it is able to manage your site completely. The software must not give unnecessary problems to the user.

The software must be designed to be compatible to the changes. The designer must be able to include new innovations to his web pages. The layout design must be compatible to the site and the software must provide for these provisions. There should be a provision for products’ image uploads, change in prices, and inclusion of descriptive texts and many other things.

The most vital element that all top ecommerce shopping cart software should take note of is the security. When an online buyer wants to buy a product, he enters all his financial details in to the website. The softwares should be so designed that they provide complete protection to the buyers. The customer’s personal details should remain a secret at all times.

No third party should be able to access it.In this age and time of advanced technology, many changes are being incorporated into these ecommerce shopping carts. This helps in attracting more and more buyers to your website. Many sites are coming up with the well designed schemes to sell their shopping cart software.

Thank you. I really like the way u guys work on each posts, its absolutely amazing. You guys ROCK! Keep up the good work.