Drupal 6.x

I'm a designer, comfortable in XHTML and CSS. I've been building websites for a long...long time. I've got a few clients that want to move from hard coded designs to a database driven, CMS style format. In fact, I recommended this. Having gone through reviews for literally hundreds of competing CMS products I decided that Drupal may be the one for me. I should mention that my first choice was WordPress - I know, it's not a 'real' CMS - but more on that in a minute.

I am by no means here to start a flame war or to denigrate the hard work done by the Drupal community. Instead, I can hopefully cast some fresh light on who the user community is/will be, and perhaps make some suggestions as to how to make the product more useful to noobs like me.

My main goal with Drupal is to take an existing site, and Drupalize it - giving me the look I've already chosen, with all the backend functionality I need. So I Installed the software (installer was a breeze, nicely done!) and started reading about theming in the new 6.x themers handbook.

I just more or less randomly stumbled upon this assembly summary from the UN's General Assembly, declaring 2008 International Year of Languages. They explain how multilingualism in the United Nations [serve] to enrich the work of the Organization. And continued with a statement that linguistic diversity [is] the foundation of cultural diversity. And without working towards preserving this diversity, the harmonious integration of a growing number of countries in the practical work of the Organization would hardly be possible. The declaration itself (A/61/L.56) also mentions specific problems with regards to how the UN website works, notably problems with non-Latin and BiDi texts. Now, why do I post all of this? Well, D6 is going to be released Any Time Now(tm) and is going to be the first Drupal release with BiDi support, content translation and some other i18n improvements. It's still not all the way there, but it's definitely a huge step compared to D5 and earlier (as well as the UN's website, it would seem ;))!

Hohum. Well. The point I wanted to get across really is as simple as: The first (pseudo-)multilingual Drupal is going to be released in the UN International Year of Languages! Is that not cool, eh?

I have used tinyMCE with imce for Drupal 5 and it worked great.

In drupal 6 neither of those modules has been released (yet)

what do you guys use for INLINE images in posts ?
I downloaded the image module
http://drupal.org/project/image
where it says

Images could be posted individually to the front page, included in stories or grouped in galleries.

I thought it actually meant inline images, does it mean that ?

I'm returning to Drupal after a 3 year hiatus and installed the new 6.0 RC2 on my development computer yesterday. Thanks to useful documentation and links on drupal.org, plus improvements installation procedures for the suite of supporting products (Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Drupal) I was able to complete the entire installation in about 3.5 hours.

Hi,

I was wondering if HostMonster if fast and reliable enough for a Drupal based site?

I am looking into making a website and I want to make it with Drupal, I am just having a hard time picking the host. I really like HostMonster's prices. And they have some nice features.

Here is the Recommended Core Security Improvements report I have completed at the request of the security team. It contains advice on how to maintain a secure Drupal core and a system that fosters secure third party modules.

MS Word: http://ses.ce-int.net/drupal/RCSI.doc
OpenDocument: http://ses.ce-int.net/drupal/RCSI.odt