Drupal 6.x

Any one plz tell me difference between drupal 6.1 and 5.2.

Just now only iam start the drupal

We are looking for a skilled Drupal Developer who also has Ajax & Java mashup experience. We are developing a Niche 'Leisure & Tourism' industry Social Membership Portal and we're very much in a 'bootstrapping' stage, so cost is especially important and i would expect to here from India and china based individuals.

Please No Sweat Shop gigs charging $90 an hour and paying their slaves five bucks! You're just wasting time and bandwidth applying.

No Time Wasters Please and A Staight $/hour Pitch - without baloney- will lead to a swift arrangement.

I am looking for the right technology to build an ecommerce website for custom invitation cards website. The site needs to provide personalization options to allow the buyer to customize the card attributes (ink colors, fonts, wordings, motifs, monograms, etc) prior to placing an order.

I'm sure any shopping cart/technology s/w I select will still require customization, however I'm hoping that using CMS (Drupal) + shopping cart (Ubercart or ecommerce) + moderate customization might help do this faster/cheaper. Alternatively wondering if I am better off building this completely from scratch using .NET, PHP, RoR etc.

Currently my thought process is to break down the work into phases:
Phase I: Core website (including screens up to product selection and product detail). Potentially no shopping cart but maybe just an online Order Form.
Phase II: Product personalization but w/ manual order processing
Phase III: Automated order process using ShoppingCart/Checkout engine
Phase IV: Real-time image rendering (NOT IN SCOPE AT THIS TIME)

Hence main questions I have are:
1) Can Drupal (or any CMS in general) help with my requirements?

Place various modules on a page. I am trying to put together a forum page with a picture gallery above it. How can I do this?
Thanks

I have six sites currently hosted by GoDaddy. Once I started using Drupal, I noticed that my sites load MUCH more slowly than they did when I just used static HTML pages. My hosting expires in July, and I want to move my sites over to a new host. I originally had Dreamhost in mind, but after doing further research I am leaning towards ANHosting. I want to know what the Drupal Community thinks about ANHosting.

Is ANHosting a good Drupal host? Please, can someone OTHER than John Forsythe give me a review. Thanks!

I just finished installation on a virtual server with a LAMP appliance. Everything went smoothly.

Drupal invited me to "visit your site" - and even sent me a nice email with a one-time url, etc. (to change my password).

Nothing works. Every effort to view anything other than phpMyAdmin or install.php brings up the Appliance admin page.

Help!