Who Does Drupal?
Drupal is at an exciting point as it moves more and more into common use. But, as has been the case with other technologies, this move comes with a major change. Until now, most people putting up Drupal Web sites have had the skills to customize Drupal. If there isn't a module that does what you want, just write some PHP code. Want a theme just for you, no problem. There are suggestions for improvements and bug fixes on the Drupal site and other places that you can apply yourself to the code (not Core, please!).
The amazing benefits of Drupal in terms of reducing site development costs won't be truly apparent until we realize that the people doing Drupal don't have to be jacks-of-all-trades. Drupal is mature enough (or close enough to being mature enough), that you don't need a PHP editor to create or modify your own modules. There's enough out there for many purposes.
I'm not suggesting by any means that Drupal is complete or that you never need to hack the code or develop your own modules and themes. What I am suggesting is that the array of plugins in general is so vast and varied that without customization you can build an awful lot of fantastic sites.
I hope and trust that the lively Drupal developer community will continue to develop, but I think the next phase is a roll-out to what Apple used to call "the rest of us."
Will there be?
Will there be any 'bonus' downloads for the book owners?
Drupal Extras
We're working on one now--this weekend is the goal
wysiwyg images not displaying; Source code button missing
To learn Drupal, I am building my new Drupal site on my localhost. I have been working my way through the book and encountered a roadblock in Hour 11. On page 179 you state "...you do not need a bridge to use IMCE with FCKeditor." This does not appear to be correct. The IMCE checkbox did not appear in the Wysiwyg configuration page until I installed the IMCE Wysiwyg Bridge module. I set the default editing format to full HTML. (I also added the necessary tags for the Filtered HTML setting as described on pages 177-178.) I am able to insert an image into the editor, but as soon as I preview or save the page, the image disappears. If I view the source for the page, the image tags are simply not there. I searched the Drupal forums and found other users with the same problem, but I have not yet found a solution.
Also, the Source button does not appear in the editor toolbar. I know it exists because I have seen another Drupal site that uses FCKeditor and the Source button is quite handy for switching back and forth between plain text and HTML. I tried searching the Drupal forums, but was not able to narrow the search enough to produce a manageable number of posts. After an hour of paging through search results, I gave up. Wait...it appears that I may have solved the last problem by following the instructions on page 82 of Using Drupal by O'Reilly Press. The problem may possibly be that the instructions in Wysiwyg for installing FCKeditor indicates the wrong folder. Anyway, the FCKeditor now shows the Source button on the toolbar. Now I just have to integrate it with IMCE....