Drupal 4.7 is out
After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third party modules, and over 55,000+ Drupal powered sites later, Drupal 4.7.0 is finally here and it rocks!
As you probably know creativebits.org is running on Drupal too. It's version 4.6 and we are planning to upgrade as soon as the image.module has a 4.7 version as it is essential for the critique section.
The new Drupal CMS features many great new features including:
- Easier installation
- AJAX goodness
- Easier module installation
- Multiple block regions
- Free tagging- this is huge!!!
...and much much more!
You can digg Drupal 4.7.
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The CVS version of the image
The CVS version of the image module works with 4.7. It's running on my site now actually (see link below)...note the gallery page. The uploading is in AJAX now.
Thank you! I'll wait a bit
Thank you! I'll wait a bit more for a more stable version.
Your site looks different every time I visit. You must have at least 10 Drupal themes for it by now.
location, location, location
That's the module I am waiting for. The location_module is a big one for me.
I am excited about 4.7 the menu system seems really easy to work with.
I've got 4.7 running on a
I've got 4.7 running on a site already, and although it isn't hugely different from an administrator's point of view, it does have some really nice new features built in.
What continually impresses me about Drupal is the quality of the coding. It's still amazingly compact for all of it's functionality, and the code is exceptionally well laid out. Kudos to all of its contributors!
Arvana
arvanadesign.com
Drupal for luxury portal
Hey, this is great to hear all the excitement about Drupal. I've been asked recently to come up with a way to build a luxury portal like the Robb Report http://www.robbreport.com/ I've researched and found that it's driven by proprietary CMS software made by Crown Peak http://www.crownpeak.com/
I really like what I see in Drupal with the Creative Bits Design and wonder if this could be the ticket for my needs? At one time I had thought Mambo was the most popular CMS, but it would seem that Drupal has far more affection.
Could anyone let me know the pros and cons of using Drupal over something proprietary like Crown Peak? Obviously, Crown Peak is selling "support" and "server space". yada yada.
I suppose I'm wondering how stable Drupal 4.6 is and if a web designer with solid HTML, but beginning PHP skills could keep up with it and still get to sleep 6 hours each night?
Pro and Cons..
Hey Central 183 and thanks for the kind words on Creativebits..
I've not tested Crown Peak what so ever.. So I'm not in the position to speak about it.. But I can tell you a bit about Drupal..
Drupal can be used in very different sets of sites.. Blogs, Communitys, Website CMS etc. So really what you want it to be it probably could be if you just have the time to fix it..
I've been using Drupal over a year now and I'm not a good coder myself, but over 1 year I've become pretty good at troubleshooting php code and other codes so I feel really nice of my acheivements when it comes to Drupal..
Pros
Free and it's open source
Big and great community which can help you and have been a great help for me (http://www.drupal.org)
A lot of developed modules
Totally new version with Drupal 4.7.0 that is the best drupal version I've tested so far and they've built in support and made some neat features full with AJAX..
Styles with CSS
Cons
If the module you've got in your mind but doesn't exists, you'll need to hire a devloper or become the developer.. Although if it's special modules you want, then you might need to hire a module developer..
Take a look at Drupal and wonder if it's the best CMS for you, it don't fit all type of persons, make sure you like it before you go on build portals, community's etc.
Sounds Good
OK, Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to at least give Drupal a shot. There seem to be a lot people here at CB that are knowledgeable on the subject.
Drupal vs other CMS's
Quick question: how does Drupal compare to other CMS's? I've used Xoops and Mambo/Joomla, and (a while back) Postnuke. I'm currently thinking of converting my personal site over to a CMS, but haven't decided which. I was originally leaning towards Xoops, then Joomla, but I'm not sure yet. How does Drupal differ from the others?
One of my pet peeves with the web sites of most CMS's is that if they have a "Is _____ right for me?" page or something similar, it's nearly always focussed on "Is using a CMS right for me?" and never on whether that particular CMS would be better than others for you...
Spidersilk, here are a
Spidersilk, here are a couple of sites that you might want to check out:
http://www.opensourcecms.com
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix
In my opinion, Drupal is one of the best-coded cms's. If you're setting up a site for a non-technical person, Joomla may be easier to admin, but if it's for your own use then you could be very happy with Drupal.
The only thing that bothers me a little about Drupal is its inherent blog/forum type structure -- you can make a site look however you want, with more flexibility than many other cms's, but if it isn't a blog or forum based site then you're going against the grain a little.
Hope that helps!
Arvana
arvanadesign.com
Well, partly...
Thanks for the links!
Two of the features of said site are a blog and a forum, but it's also got a fairly large library of articles that are not "newsy" or otherwise time-based, and would need to be indexed by subject, not date.
One of the things that appeals to me about Drupal thus far is that it seems to offer more flexibility in categorizing content than other CMS's. The way I set the site up originally (when it was just straight HTML with little to no dynamic content) was based around six main topic areas, and within each one there are certain features like articles, book reviews, web site reviews, etc.
As I started moving into using more PHP &/or CGI scripts, it became harder to maintain the category structure, because most of the scripts -- including the components/modules of most CMS's -- tend to sort content functionally rather than thematically, so that the top categories would have to be articles, web links, etc. with the subject areas below that, not vice-versa. Drupal seems like it might have a little more flexibility than that...?
Yup, actually Drupal has a
Yup, actually Drupal has a great categorization system they call taxonomy -- you can create whole vocabularies of topics in a tree structure, have them cross-referenced, assign content to multiple topics, and create dynamic views by subject. There are also quite a lot of modules that extend this functionality even farther. The main challenge is figuring out how to use all of the available features as they aren't that well documented (as far as I've been able to find at least!).
The built-in forum in Drupal isn't nearly as powerful as something like phpBB, so if you're used to that you might be a little disappointed. CreativeBits does a great job of maximizing Drupal's forum capabilities (thanks guys!) so this site should give you a good idea of what's possible in that area.
Arvana
arvanadesign.com
Drupal may be ideal for you
Drupal has one of the best and most flexible categorization systems I've seen. This is why I used it to re-launch my personal site (if you follow the link, it's still VERY early in setup -- I've still got to build a theme and such). I can combine different kinds of content (blog entries, "stories", static pages, download pages, etc...) in a single organization hierarchy. Alternately, I can apply multiple hierarchies, functional hierarchies (i.e. by content type), etc...
Compared to other CMSes (I've messed with Wordpress, Nuke, and Joomla), it's a bit geekier than, say, Wordpress, and a bit friendlier (albeit geekier) than Joomla. If a blog, forum, or other sort of regularly updated content is a key feature of your site, it handles that quite well. If not, well, it seems to handle that well, too, provided that you're okay with "content goes on the front page" or some way to code around it.
The built-in modules and configuration of Drupal is incredibly powerful. I've been quite impressed. With some very modest PHP hacking you can get some amazing customization.
You guys win!
OK, I'm sold. :-)
I've just installed drupal on a subdomain and am testing it out. Lack of an install script was mildly annoying, but it didn't really take that much longer than it would have with one. And thus far seems pretty easy to configure. This just might be the solution I've been looking for!
Thanks!
Soider Silk Design
http://www.spidersilk.net