General discussion

Hello /.*/
drupal.org loads very slow and I have DSL. Is there an DDOS against drupal or is this the normal load of this site?
I must make a decision between drupal or mambo for a high traffic site. Everywhere I can read drupal is the better solution for this, but now I sit and wait approx. 10 seconds for every page when I browse the Handbook on drupal.org.

Is there a bug in the new version?

Can anyone show me a bigger site with drupal and perhaps tell me more about the server where it be hosted

sorry about my "funny" english.....

Hello,

I´m looking for a directory soft to integrate in my drupal system, but I have no idea of this type of scripts. Anyone could recomend me a good choice?

Thank you, Simon.

Hi!

This is my first visit to this site and the CMS looks very impressive. Unfortunately, I think the coolest theme is this site's theme, which does not appear to be included for download. Can I get it somehow?

Thanks

My admin logs report system events of the type "page not found 15/08/2005 - 13:31 403.shtml not found". Several are produced with each click, although the target page is found. Further details are given:

e.g. 1

details
Type page not found
Date Monday, 15 August, 2005 - 13:27
User chueewowee
Location /modules/fontsize/styleswitcher.js
Message 403.shtml not found.
Severity warning
Hostname 81.7.33.165

e.g. 2

Hello,

I'm completely a newbie here and I'm totally losted.

I just installed Drupal and now it can be seen at

http://freshnemo.limingxu.com/index.php?q=

The problem is I tried to follow the documenation and I clicked into the adminstrative section, all I see is a recent acitivy log list. There are no links inside Adminstratrive section that leads me into other sections.

Right now, the only way I was able to get in module section and enable modules is because on the homepage, there is a link to it. The same thing with themes. But I'm missing out a lot of things it seems? Like i'm reading bryght.com, for "How To Enable, Order and Place Blocks", it says

1 Login
2 Click on administer
3 Click on blocks

I did clicked on "adminstrater" (in my case, i renamed it to "admin"), once I'm in there, where is "blocks"??? where is the link to "modules" or any other sections for taht matter? Did I do something worng? Do i need to enable somethign or what? or am I expected to type in the links in the browser manually?

FYI, when I used MySQL admin client tool to create the tables in the database, I got these warnings, I'm not sure if it's related?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Warning: Do not know how to handle this statement at line 760:
REPLACE variable SET name='update_start', value='s:10:"2004-12-20";';

Can any of you gurus tell me how I need to proceed if I want to learn how to work with and design websites based on Drupal?

I have no problem with graphics, html, CSS, Flash and have been designing webistes using these basics, plus some javascripts. But I'd
like to know if I need to work with Drupal, what do I have to learn, and the best ways and steps to go about it.

I learn pretty quickly, mostly by reading and doing things hands on, but currently have no real programming background. I
know the basics of databases, but not very in-depth.