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DrupalCamp Victoria started off with excellent presentation on SEO & Drupal. See the excellent resource site, seodrupal.net. This site lists all the modules necessary to fine tune your website to rank highest in the search engines. it also includes step by step tutorials to set up these modules. Everything from page titles, meta tags, clean urls, user-friendly and seo page paths to google analytics to track traffic to your pages is covered here.

See www.seodrupal.net

Steps to Building a Theme for Drupal 5.x

A. Design layout in Photoshop and produce .psd file
B. Convert .psd to css/xhtml
C. Choose a starting theme to modify or code a new theme from scratch.
D. Katy's notes

A. Design layout in Photoshop and produce .psd file
1. If your design skills are limited, there are many open source templates you can choose from. http://www.oswd.org

B. Convert .psd to css/xhtml
1. Convert .psd to .jpg and slice up using Imageready (available in Adobe Photoshop).

You are invited to join the Surrey Drupal Users Group for our next meetup on Sept. 11, 2008. To RSVP, go to: http://drupal.meetup.com/18/calendar/8548361/

We will be meeting at our regular meeting place at ABC Country Restaurant in Fleetwood. 15373 Fraser Highway, Surrey at 7 - 9 pm. Free WiFi is available. Food and non-alcoholic beverages are available to order.

Drupal Camp Victoria 2008 is happening Sept. 5 - 6, 2008

September 5th (~8:30AM to ~4:00PM)

September 6th (~9:00AM to ~5:00PM)

Location: Gateway Village 301 - 771 Vernon Ave. Victoria BC.

Website: http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com/

Go to the website to register for FREE!

This 2 day seminar is being organized by volunteers. Thank you to NorthStudio staff and others! It's a great way to network and meet others who work with Drupal. Share some tips, learn some new tricks and meet new people.

Thanks, Glenn and ImageXMedia.com for hosting the BBQ and DVD night on August 14th. The Surrey Drupal Users Group met at Glenn's house for excellent food and to view the new DVD called Implementing Drupal. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend but I checked out the photos and it looks like the group had fun. Good to see some new faces. Hope you all come out again to our next meetings.

If you want to get a copy of the DVD yourself directly from Lullabot, check out this link:

http://www.lullabot.com/news/20080630/understanding-drupal-dvd

This was posted by Dale McGladdery on July 11, 2008 at http://www.group42.ca/topics/surrey_drupal_users_group

Last night at the Surrey Drupal Users Group Rick Vugteveen from ImageX Media gave a great presentation on creating a blog site in Drupal 6 using CCK, Views and a number of support modules. He lugged his 20 odd inch monitor for the presentation and it worked rather well at the restaurant table. Not sure if he's going to post his slides. I haven't asked him yet, but hoping we can get a repeat performance for the Vancouver group.

Meet with others in your local area interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. Come out for monthly Drupal training sessions, discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news, or just socialize with like-minded people from the Fraser Valley!

The focus of our group is Drupal 101 topics. We are looking for presenters to give a short talk to our group. Here are some topics we are interested in learning about:

- Theming with Drupal
- Calendars and Events module
- Integrating video on your front page
- Installing a photo gallery

myDrupal.ca NEWSflash!

We have added a new section to our website. See the Resources page for many different ways to learn Drupal.

Implementing Drupal is a great screencast featuring Angie Byron of Lullabot (Drupal Training) and Geoff Butterfield of George Lucas Educational Foundation. Their talk is a great introduction to What is Drupal? Also covers Drupal implementation and development.

View Implementing Drupal Video

A new Drupal training book is currently being written by the folks at Lullabot. It is due out in Fall 2008. Formerly named Practical Drupal, it is now titled Drupal Jumpstart. It is geared towards Drupal 6. Angie Byron writes, "This how-to/recipe-style book will focus on several common types of Drupal sites and offer step-by-step instructions on how to build them from scratch."

Here is the initial description:
http://www.lullabot.com/blog/were_writing_oreilly_drupal_book

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