So far my Drupal site consists of a Gallery module (using the open source Gallery2 software) and a Glossary (a module that uses Drupal's Taxonomy to provide mouse-over definitions of key words). They are both potentially very useful for teachers. I have also managed to quite successfully manage to fiddle with the CSS and image files from one of the download-able themes to create something that fits the school 'branding'. I'm going to spend some time now looking at podcasts and embedded video ... excitement!
What I haven't seen yet in the book is how to create a new home page ... or in fact any page that isn't module driven. Sometimes when you create a site you just want a plain old page that doesn't do anything fancy, just a bit of text and a few images. If the rest of the project is any indication, it can't be too difficult ... once I got over the whole mySQL database fiasco at the start of the project things have been pretty plain sailing.
At the moment it's just taking me a long time to do anything with Drupal, which I suppose is to be expected when learning a new workflow ... although not as long as it would have taken to build that image gallery or glossary from scratch I suspect!
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