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Yayy ! First ! :P

Great Article ! Keep it coming guys!

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

anyhow I saw it FIRST !! yayyy! :P

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

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

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.

Great post. Thanks

This is so great , thx for this

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

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I’ve just been begged by a friend to update her website which was originally made with Drupal, and knowing absolutely nothing about it this is awesome :)

very nice… thank you!

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

there is a new but nice drupal sites gallery here http://drupalbased.com

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

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

Great great, amazing compilation of links and resources.
I blog about Drupal here. Have a look. Here is a beginners Drupal How to written by YIPL grab it as well.

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

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

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,

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

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.

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!

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) 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!

+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…

Great article…thumbs up for this post!

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

love the article

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!

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

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

The download is available from here: http://drupal.org/project/a3_atlantis

I do really prefer drupal to wordpress in fact it is more safe and I have an access to more themes than WP.

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

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

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

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

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 videos. The Web site GotDrupal is turning out to be helpful too.

And you can’t forget the listing of videos on drupal.org
http://drupal.org/node/63155

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

Great article, lots of good stuff here, thanks.

Looking forward to the Joomla Developer’s Toolbox !

Thanks

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

teknodergi for the other locale drupal community sites in turkish.

Nice can we have some joomla stuff too?

RJ

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.

Drupal can be overwhelming for newbies and articles like this are really helpful. I’ve linked to it on my blog about Drupal Development. Nice work, thanks.

There probably should be a link in here to using CCK/Views, it’s needed by pretty much every Drupal project so should maybe even get it’s own section!

I’m new to drupal and after I choose it I was afraid of too many details and from where to start. Drupal.org is not very user friendly, but your article is. I’m very happy that your site once again don’t disappointing me and I’m staying loyal subscriber .
Sorry for my poor english.

Drupal is still not a very good program. But thanks for the tips and resources.

Wow, i really see the advantages of Drupal. Thanks for the informative blog!

good job

very interesting,I have seen it.

Nice information, very useful thanks for the post and keep up the good work.

Keep up this great resource.

Thanks, this is article is usefull..

Thanks, this is article is usefull..

Thanks for the valuable info….I find it one of the best CMS till now.

Jenny

Grate I found everything about Drupal in one place thank you for posting nice article.

First time today that I hear about Drupal, so this valuable article will be helpful to teach me how to build a Drupal site if I decide to do so. It seems like a lot of info to absorb but worth digging into it seems.

very nice tips collection! :) tnx

When it comes to (open) source cms web applications. Drupal rocks . We currently choose drupal as main work