Drupal 4.7.x

I'd like to set up a small site from scratch with Drupal. I've managed to install drupal properly and play around with it somewhat. I've also taken a peek at the site recipes section and gotten a bunch of helpful pointers in what to do (such as http://drupal.org/node/31896). However, I thought that I could post the full list of what I am trying to achieve here and hopefully get feedback and comments from people on how to best achieve my goals. If something very much like this has already been discussed to death here, I would also appreciate pointers to such.

The short overview is that I want a simple static website with static pages and some news items. In addition to that I want a members area, where members can make new pages, post pictures and the like. But, on with the full feature list.

I've been using 4.6.5 for over a year, after converting my userbase from a phpBB/drupal pair to drupal's forums, and they've take the converstion pretty well and they've been pleased with what we've been able to do as a result of the integration. I can't wait to roll 4.7 out for the site-- the forms API is so clean and pretty and things just work a lot more intuitively.

Hello
this is sanjeev.We generally create nodes for accomplishing any type of task.For example we create story module to create story node.So in order to create stories node we need to write story module.Now what i want is to create a module and within that module i want to develop various types of node module.
I need suggestion & help on this activity.Reference is project module.

With Regards
sanjeev
sanjeevpro@gmail.com

What is the best way to add an image field to a new node type module I am making? Should I use img_assist.module? Or just a form input field of
'#type' => 'file'
? Or what? Thanks!
dado

I thought it would be good to have a "steps to convert your design into a drupal theme" page in the drupal handbook.
Im working on documenting the process from start to finish the steps required to fully integrate a design into drupal from scratch.
To start with I have created a simple interface design mockup that will be the main page template for a stock drupal setup.
my original post is on my site here including screenshots:
http://isaachorton.liquidratio.com/2006/01/drupal_theme_customization_doc/

My goal is to fully document (with screenshots) all steps in the process along with any code snippets and tips for converting that come up along the way. I noticed in working on my own theme development that is very cumbersome and time consuming just searching for code snippets to do common functions/enhancements(ie style $links or something like that), so i think this will be beneficial to anyone just getting started theming for drupal to find this info in one nicely organized location!

If anyone has any pertinent advice that they would like to offer, I will be going through any and all suggestions and including appropriate ones in a final list of "recommended" reading/resources for themers.

Ill also be covering hot topics relating to theme development and other UI concerns, like use of AJAX, Flash, Javascript, CSS, coding standards and all that fun stuff!...

next steps include:

I've been using google's adsense on my site by simply adding the adsense code into a block. But I see there is an adsense module. Why would I do that if the code works in a standard block?