• Content Management Systems
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• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

How do I get started?
Before you start installing stuff and typing in content, you should consider what purpose your site will have, how should it look and what types of content should it contain? Will you deliver all the content or will the users contribute it? How will the user navigate the content?
Pre-install
Be sure to consider all the questions and define every element of the site with a lot of very specific details, the more precise you are when defining what the site should be the better. It’s not hard to create the design for a site, it’s the content of the site that will take the time to do right.
While you keep thinking of the above, you might as well find the right host for your Drupal installation, not all hosting companies support the specific requirements for hosting Drupal, take a look at Drupal’s System Requirements and make sure it complies with your hosting solution.
One of the points to really notice is “PHP memory of 16MB or higher for a default Drupal 6 installation”, when you really gets going with drupal it shouldn’t be hard to exceed this limit. I usual run around 32MB PHP memory. You will exceed this limit rather quickly when you start working with the Devel Module, which is a module I can’t live without when creating themes or modifying them.

When you have all of this under control you can start by going over to Drupal’s homepage and download the Latest none Dev version of it, which is currently 6.4 (released 2008-aug-14).

At this point I expect you to have the following ready.

• A strong definition of how your site should be.
• A copy of drupal on the Hosting solution of your choice

I will not get into detail of how you should upload the files to the host nor how you install the basic steps of Drupal, you can find tons of articals about this on the net, Drupal’s official installation guide might be a good one to start with.

After you are done installing and pondering around inside your newly installed Drupal site, you should start setting up the installation so that it meets your needs. You are most proberly going to need a few of the most used Modules such as CCK, Views, Backup and Migrate, Pathauto and XML Sitemap. All of which is modules I would use on almost any site, of course this again depends on what requirements you have for the site.

This is just meant as a minor teaser and introduction into Drupal and help you make the right choices when preparing to start out with it.

The new design will match the new Wordpress back end in functionality (which is very up to date, in regards to usability and offers a greatly improved work flow with its use of JavaScript).

The Goal of the new design is quite simple, make the content of the site easy accessible, quick to navigate and just look good! One of the key elements of the design will be to guide the eyes of the viewer on to the content and not distract it by noise, which sounds quite easy right? And another thing, keep the colors basic and unobtrusive!

Its quite simple actually, lets say you got the following folder structure on your big harddrive.

c:\documents
c:\games
c:\pictures
c:\movies
c:\programs


this looks kinda like a good structure, but we can do better by typing this command:

Subst w: c:\documents

in your command prompt (”start” -> “run” -> type “cmd” -> press enter).

now you have a “virtual” hard drive (w:\) which is mapped to c:\documents this means that every time you put some data in w:\ it actually ends up in c:\documents.
notice that this is not a real partition and is not a new hard drive in your computer just a folder mapped to look like it.

If you regret creating the virtual hard drive you can delete it by typing this in your command prompt:

Subst w: /d

notice this does not delete your data it simply removes the virtual mapping to the folder, so you can still find your documents in c:\documents.

note: I was unable to change the name of the virtual drive after creating the mapping, but it kept the old name of the original drive, even when i changed the name of the original drive. So changing the name before you create the virtual drive will allow you to give the drive a name in windows.
Update: When rebooting or returning from a hibernation the names of the virtual drive will reset to the current name of the original drive.

I managed to complete the work part, and started a little on the new looks and feel of this page nothing too see yet just created a few ideas, but it will come forward along the week.

So now i’m off for work! See you around