Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site

Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site, 9780137041299 (0137041292), Prentice Hall, 2011

In the late 1990s I began my career in Web development by making simple Web pages while studying at college. My degree in science and the environment combined with my summer jobs of Web site building landed me a job as a project manager at a firm making Web sites for environmental organizations. The in-house programmer would sometimes tell me that things “couldn’t be done,” and being the stubborn sort of person that I am, I began to learn programming. We were always working on a shoestring budget, and free software was absolutely essential to our toolkit.

A few years later I branched out and created my own content management system— mine was going to feature a multilingual discussion board for college students learning a second language. (To this day, this is probably one of the hardest problems to solve.) Before writing a line of code, I downloaded all the different free content management systems that were available at the time. Drupal had the most sophisticated translation interface for multilingual Web sites. I ripped out the parts I thought were useful and spent two years working on my own little project. I thought I was doing a splendid job. And then I went back to check on Drupal. The work I’d done in two years was an embarrassment compared to how Drupal had grown. With only a slight hesitation I threw out my work and started building Web sites with Drupal.

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