As a trial run of both Drupal Gardens and Drupal 7 for possible future projects, I've decided to rebuild my company website on a Drupal Gardens site. I've been working with Drupal for about 5 years and am really interested to see if these tools will become part of my Bat-Belt. I thought it might be helpful to others if I post a few quick thoughts here and there as I take this thing for a spin.
Drupal Gardnes claims "Simple content editing"
...well let's see.
I pushed 1 button to add content...1 button to select content type...then I started typing. It took a simple click of the "Add media" button to add an image. Easy.
The UI also allows you to easily select HTML input types from a dropdown on the top left. This adds more tools (like center) to the UI.
CONCLUSIONS
Everything I have been reading about Drupal 7 has been trumpeting the User Interface improvements. Adding content is an excellent place to start to see these improvements. It's quick, clean and easy and my clients would find this a nice upgrade in usability.
I've worked with a lot of content interfaces over the years. Many have been nightmares. This is Cheech & Chong...
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Have you been using Drupal Gardens or Drupal 7 yet? If so, share some of your thoughts in the comment section. In the meantime, I'll keep building and continue posting about what I see.
