I am now three, or is it four, weeks into learning Drupal and am starting to see the bigger picture of the software better. In the beginning I wanted to install every module and theme I heard mentioned based on a few words about the module and no other research. In the two sites I am working on I have stripped out all the modules I am not using directly at present. It really helps me to see what happens when I do add a new module.
One module I have had trouble with is jstools and specifically wforms. I couldn't get wforms to run on my sites but I have gone to the creators of wforms, FormAssembly and am using their service to create web forms. It works really well as I download the forms to my site and link to them from within drupal. I am migrating the gmslegal.com.au site to Siteground server from my own site so it should be up in the next day or so. There you will see the wforms in action. Look at "Instruct us to Act" and "Obtain a quote" links in the menus.
On to the asynchronous nature of my learning. I haven't been able to get to the web casts as yet but have listened to them up to 12/12 and think I almost got a mention in there at one point... I guess it would be nice for the presenters to address some of the comments I make and issues I mention here as it does help me to be part of the community and feel that there is interaction between us.
I would like to see the chat room transcripts for the links that are put in there. Where are they posted?
Well back to drupalling. The Certificate of Registration site is pretty much done for now - www.cor.robonline.id.au - so I now need to get it hosted by the college and start using it to see how it runs with real students.
Oh, the other thing is that I actually installed a Drupal site for another guy who I will get the job to create his site manually without fantastica the other day. Had to set up the db and download and upload the drupal files,e tc. but got it working in under an hour. Pretty good I think.