DNotes LLC

DNotes LLC

Drupal development, hosting, and consulting

Drupal 7.x usability

My wife just started using a freshly-installed Acquia Drupal 7.2.2 site. She's very web savvy, but not familiar with Drupal. Here are some quotes:


(reading) "'Step 1. Start at the beginning. Visit the administration section for a task-based or module-based overview of the options available to configure your website.' Which one do I want? Task-based or module based? Well, I can't do task based, because the link doesn't work! I guess I'll do module-based. Let's see... Acquia Network - do I want to do that? I don't know what any of these things are...."


Me: What do you want to do first?

Her: Change how the site looks!


"The only useful options are the last two! Who wants to start out with administration?"


"Yay!! I'm learning Drupal!"


"How do I find a good theme? Let's see... (typing) ... 'best' 'drupal' 'themes' ... (clicking) ... oh, look, Zen won the best Drupal theme, should I use that?"


"Wow! I'm totally getting the hang of this!"


"Oh my God, I'm a test subject!?!?"


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