Drupal 7.x

For those of us new to Drupal 7 is there a list of:

Good Books we can use to learn Drupal 7 - those which have been written using Drupal 7 and not the betas

Free Themes for building websites

Online places to get help and advice

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Shahid

I have just installed D7 and it seems sucessful but some how http://mysite.com is not the default home page?
I have to go to http://mysite.com/drupal-7.0/

I tried looking at some of the install files and don't see what I need to do

Hi Guys,

My thanks in advance for any subsequent posts, this has really got my head spinning a lot...

Ok, so I have done a sort of successful couple of drupal installations. I managed to get a copy of the latest Drupal 6 to work and using the same webserver and database managed to get a Drupal 7 install to work. This is on the latest Ubuntu Server Install (10.something)...

I really wanted to have several Drupal 6 sites going and a Drupal 7 site or two to experiment with. To be honest, I am happy just to have one D6 and one D7 site working. The problem I have is that I carn't install modules into these sites. The installs worked fine, but adding new modules (eg views) doesn't work. I get permission errors. If I change the permissions to 744 the errors go, but the module does not appear under /admin/build/modules.

According to the Ubuntu Documentation for running multisites on apache2 (https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/httpd.html) I need to configure the Virutal hosts under /etc/apache2/sites-available. I did this for each site as below:

Drupal 6 site


ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName drupal_6_test
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal_6/sites/default

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None


Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

Here the samples:

http://www.zeleza.com/aggregator?page=2
http://topnews.cn/aggregator?page=4

Looking to replace our inhouse written CMS with something else and Drupal is high on my list of possible solutions. I am struggling to find out if Drupal will work the way I need it to though. Can somebody help answer my questions?

1/ Will Drupal support integration into a inhouse built API to get stock of products and prices. I have seen Drupal E-Commerce solutions but they all seam to have the products and prices loaded into Drupal. I don't want to, and can't load the products into Drupal as the stock and prices come from 3rd parties with 3rd party API's wrapped up behind our own request system which gets multiple products from back end sysetms and packages them together. We sell shortbreaks, which might be a hotel from one API and a ticket to the theatre from another API. All this stock and pricing is available from a single API Request system we have developed in house but now we need to get these products into a CMS/Templating system. Is this possible, and if so how?

Setting up something new on Drupal 7.

If I had multiple content types that required a logo, should I set up a field for each content type or one field and reuse it?

Any advantage/disadvantage to either method?

Thanks,
JM