Seriously....
I run into people all the time who want to learn how to leverage the awesome power of Drupal. Often, they want to learn as much as they can AND as quickly as possible.
There's NO reason why any one can't get exactly what they want out of Drupal. The abundance of resources is OVERWHELMING.
There is NO SHORTAGE of free screencasts and podcasts and tutorials and online recipes, etc. Most of them are good and many are even great!
However...
If you really want to get wet, you need to jump in the deep-end!
My next few blogs are going to spotlight some of the NONFREE resources for Drupal learning.
I am on NO ONES PAYROLL so anything I say is my own opinion unencumbered by greedy capitalistic influences which have no place in my blog. :-) [note: I'm ALL about capitalism!]

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of www.DuoConsulting.com I fly out next Friday for one of the biggest [if not THE biggest] North American DrupalCamps. Visit the site and see what all the excitement is about.

It's been a whirl wind gang, so strap in and hold on tight!

In addition to doing my own amount of business with a few select partners, I have also taken a some work with a major Drupal Shop www.trellon.org
I left the project of www.apbspeakers.com when the work load wasn't enough for both Ray Stuart and me.

I have a client who absolutely insists that the ie6 layout and mouseover issues must be resolved.
I did some of the usual tricks but found that I needed to change the HTML markup in order to really get it right.
My decision? I needed to use a tpl.php template page that would only apply to ie6.
My front page at www.genesisplasticswelding.com has some background transparent png files that swap on mouseover. I could NOT get these to work in ie6.
So I went into the page-front.tpl.php and at the VERY TO I entered this lines including the opening and closing PHP tags.

<?php

Day one of DrupalCamp Wisconsin is over.
I've met some cool people. Some I knew from twitter, others I knew from groups.drupal.org.
The more I present the more I want to do it again. I love it when ppl have the AHA moment and things start clicking.
I particularly enjoy getting people up to speed so that when they hit the crazier sessions, they can get more out of them. I remember sitting through API and CCK and Views when I wasn't quite sure what a node was. I'm glad I hap people around to educate me. Now I can't wait to give back any chance I get.