Drupal - not as easy as it should be

Submitted by paul on
I am using Drupal to manage the content in this site, and so far, I find myself stumbling at nearly every turn. My main difficulty is in getting the presentation the way I want it. There are many sites out there built on Drupal, including http://twit.tv, and of course, http://drupal.org. They managed to get Drupal to work for them. So I know it is possible to get it to work for me. So why I am even using Drupal? Because I want to learn about it. I also want to learn about Joomla!, but I found Joomla! overwhelming to start with, so I decided to start with Drupal. However, digging deeper into Drupal, I'm having lots of trouble. Take this blog as an example: I want to get a blog banner to appear at the top of the page, with the blog title, some artwork, and maybe even a slogan. However, I can't manage to do that. I even uploaded the optional "bloginfo" module, which is supposed to let me at least have a blog title, but I can't even get it to appear. I also had trouble getting the default title, "paul's blog," to go away. I finally found a post that describes how to edit the php code to get rid of the title. Even that post wasn't quite accurate (the php code was much more complicated than the post showed), but it was enough to allow me to edit the php and succeed. However, what do we do for less-sophisticated users who are not savvy with php? Maybe I'll find the time to do something about this. There's an opportunity to make this easier--maybe I should join the drupal project and help out. Maybe somebody already has something to help--I just can't find it.
Tags:  Drupal