The first step, the source of knowledge

I made a fresh new blog here in tumblr.com blogspot.com and just use it to write my diary, the progress I've gone through while learning Drupal.

This way, I can read back all the modifications I made to Drupal, the reasons they were taken, and repeat that process someplace else.

Soo.. The story is.. the very first step I took was to join #drupal and #drupal-support (they are IRC channels on irc.freenode.net).

#drupal-support in particular was a gem if you want to learn the basics. The questions are focused, and at weekend you can participate by answering questions and getting yourself involved (not much people online on weekend, and they usually don't ask with the hope that their query get solved in the same day).

When it comes to theming, I found #drupal-themes lack the lively activity, there's not much I could learn from them. Instead, I found #css and #html to be an oasis. They are very generous when it comes to resources you could read in to.

After a week, I was able to solved css problems, and understand mostly of how it work. I helped there for weeks to pay my tribute.

I also join the Drupal forums. But they lack the interactivity one would expect from IRC. It's not the place for a newbie to track down bugs and verify his assumptions with numerous Q&A.

Labels: drupal, drupal diary