Welcome Drupal 7

In honor of Drupal 7 RC 1's release, Ingram Innovation has just been relaunched in Drupal 7. So, how is it? Great! Will I be building all sites in Drupal 7 yet? Well, maybe not quite yet. However, I'm definitely looking forward to doing so. The new admin interface is great, and the changes for developers are also superb. The debate can now begin about when is the right time to start building all sites in Drupal 7, but thanks to the hard work of Drupal's community, the transition phase should be quite a bit shorter than the Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 transition was. As a general rule, if a client came to me today and wants a site up within the next month, I would probably still stick with Drupal 6. However, if a site has a little more time for development, then Drupal 7 is here and it's great, so the time would then be right.

What about the state of module's? Well, with Views being quite stable already and fields built into core, a lot of functionality can be accomplished with very few modules. On top of that hundreds of modules already have release candidates out for Drupal 7, which means we're just about ready to go!