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What are the pros and cons for using Drupal Advanced forum or phpBB?
demo of Drupal Advanced forum is here: http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com/forum
this demo used Blue Lagoon Stacked styling
how to style your advanced forum is here: http://drupal.org/node/234042

For a good example of using phpBB with Drupal 6, see here:
http://www.teenrc.ca/phpbbforum
you can download phpbb skins from the internet
Drupal has module for phpbb. drupal.org forums has a drupal 6 version

I like the style of phpbb for the posts with the author pane on the right hand side.

My Top 6 FREE Drupal 6 Themes:

1. Acquia Marina

2. Marinelli

3. Pixture

4. Tapestry

5. Foliage

6. NewsFlash

I found this good tutorial on How to convert a .psd to a Drupal Theme. The author is Vancouver's Alexa Booth. An experienced Drupal themer, Alexa takes one through the basics of theming. So far I have worked through Part I and II and I learned a lot. Hope you will too. Note: This tutorial uses Drupal 5.x.

• PSD to Drupal Theme Tutorial Part I

• PSD to Drupal Theme Tutorial Part II

My very own Wish List includes two new Drupal Training books that are
coming out soon: Using Drupal and Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting

Release Date: Dec. 16, 2008
Title: Using Drupal
Author: Lullabot team

A friend recently recommended www.nettuts.com. That's where I found this Web Developers Christmas Wish List and enjoyed reading it. I'm sure you will, too.

http://nettuts.com/articles/web-roundups/20-perfect-things-to-buy-a-web-developer-for-christmas/

I recently purchased Drupal Multimedia by Aaron Winborn. It's all about incorporating images, audio, video and more into your Drupal websites. This book focuses on using Drupal 6 and is exactly what I was looking for.

Event: Christmas Party Date: Dec. 11, 2008 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Andrew's house, 7742 Garfield Drive, North Delta, BC Bring your friends and spouses! Have fun celebrating the holiday season. Please bring appetizers, munchies, drinks and desserts to share with everyone. Looking forward to seeing you there! Map to Andrew's house

Here's an excellent presentation by Angus Pratt of Vancouver, BC. An experienced Drupal developer and presenter, Angus gave this presentation at LinuxFest in April 2008. Using Drupal 5.7, Angus goes through the planning steps, installation and creation of a 5 page corporate brochure site. This presentation is good for newbies and explains the basics of getting a small brochure site up and running. Angus tells us what image modules to install but does not say how to set them up or how to handle images. Here is the link to the online video of his presentation.

After deleting pages and pages of nonsense entries in the comments section, I started investigating anti-spam modules for Drupal. Akismet is one choice but I went with Mollom Free. Created by Dries Buytart, Drupal's creator and founder, Mollom provides robust spam filtering for blog comments, forms and forums. Here's the official description:

1. Informative Content. Write clearly and accurately describe your topic. Provide high quality content on your pages especially your home page. Include keywords that visitors would use to find your website.

2. Build Links. Place links to your website on other websites with related content. These links help Google to find your site and helps give you greater visibility in Google search results.

3. Clear Navigation. Use logical menu structure to provide easy navigation to the content on your website. Every page should be accessible from at least one static text link.