Hello,

I wanted to share with you something new that I learned today. I got some great ideas from a colleague of mine and I was able to put them into practice immediately.

Beginners’s Guide to Node Export Module

My client asked me to build a new form for their Drupal 6 site and to place it in the staging area. So I created a new webform from scratch and placed it on my DEV site. The site was LIVE but I still used the DEV site to tweak CSS and to test various Drupal things.

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

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.

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:

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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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