So I've been playing with 7 for most of the day and so far I like it.
Almost everything you already know about Drupal still applies. But how
you get there has changed. They have done TONS of work on the
interface, and from an end user's perspective it will be much much
easier to use. You are still building web pages on the fly though, so
you still need to understand at least a little of the underlying
concepts. (i.e. images don't show if you use Plain Text (new content
type!), or Filtered HTML).
I applied the 7 version of one of the themes I've been working with
lately, and very little changes there. You still have page.tpl.php and
all the related elements. So any training you have on theming is still
pertinent. The overall file structure of the application is still very
familiar as well.
In terms of performance, I'm not really noticing any differences between
versions 6 and 7. I'm sure there are some improvements there, but my
test box is fast enough that they are a little hard to notice. I'm not
worried in any way regarding performance.
My only real concern is that 7 is too new. I'm migrating a new customer
website to 7 now, but I won't be migrating existing version 6 sites for
at least a few months. On the otherhand, Drupal is a very active
project, and I have faith that any bugs or issues that *may* crop up
will be fixed pretty quick.
All in all, I give Drupal 7 two thumbs up!
Shawn
On 11-01-06 07:59 AM, John Clarke wrote:
On 01/06/2011 12:29 AM, Shawn wrote:
The long awaited Drupal 7 is here.
http://drupal.org/
I've seen hints of things to be included, and the learning curve
should be drastically cut. I know I'll be installing it very quickly
and seeing what's new.
Shawn
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The site includes an engaging article that details how The Economist.com
migrated their website off ColdFusion and Oracle to Drupal 6.
To switch platforms, apparently they developed and open sourced tools
for incremental migration, to import new content and users over time.
John
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