Based on your experience, how do you think learning materials/tutorials could be improved for people learning from scratch?
Need Drupal developer to: - do PSD/HTML to Drupal theme for one new section on the existing site. - Do additional module programming. - fix issues/error on the site - Make the entire site work
With a stated budget of $100--$300. I mean come on, that's ridiculously naive on the part of the person who posted. If you could give bid-seekers some guidelines on what to reasonably expect, e.g. some examples of what a budget of $100-$300 might buy, it would help people get qualified bids.
I think that's what gets most people. That initial learning curve takes a lot reassurance that they can do it; but if they hit a wall and it takes more than 7-8 hours to get around it, a lot just quit all together.
By far, the most thorough and best written resource I used was the Rails Tutorial from Michael Hartl.