Think about the seasons for a moment. Summers have lots of sunshine and warm weather, but they can also enable you to bake cookies on your dashboard, which only sounds like an upside. Winters are darker, colder, and in some places snowy, but they also enable you to bake cookies in your house without giving yourself heatstroke, instead of in your car, where you definitely would make yourself pass out. Both have their advantages, and often it seems like the world has almost acted like a cartoon and changed summer to winter with nary a pause in between for fall. And sometimes, technology is just like that.

Technology changes very quickly, as anyone with a five-year-old computer will tell you in a particularly whiny tone. This is especially true in the open source world, the world in which resides Drupal, which is now on version 7. But rather than the difference between a brand new computer and the one that’s been sitting in Grandma’s basement for the last ten years (but she doesn’t know how to use anyway), sometimes technological developments are a little bit more like summer and winter. Different versions simply work better for slightly different things.
 

Progress is good, but function and efficiency are best. Drupal 7 is still changing; you need a developer who keeps up with that, who can utilize it to greatest effect for your site.  That’s why we at ClikFocus stay up to date on changing technology and how it applies to different sites. If Drupal 6 would work better for your purposes, we’ll know, because we’ve built with both. You don’t have to wait half a year to enjoy the version that suits your needs best.

Feel free to experiment with dashboard baking, though.