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While I have spare time I write a magazine about drupal

The following is a
Contents:

1. Introduction to Drupal

2. System Requirements for using Drupal

3. Installing Drupal

4. Install Module

5. Set the Category News

6. Create content

7. Install Theme

8. Tutorial Displays a list of news according to categories using the Module Views

9. Menu settings

The language I use is Indonesian. Maybe next time I'll translate in English.

Our-Hometown, Inc. has entered the 2009 Knight News Challenge for its work on bringing our customers new and improved newspaper website features using the Drupal Content Management System.

The Knight News Challenge is a contest run by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds projects and ideas that advance quality journalism in this digital age.

ST Conch, another new free theme from us is now available at

http://www.symphonythemes.com/node/85

I have made some changes to reflect comments from users at Drupal.org on this latest theme, ST Conch. Like Alphorn, it is also free.

Hope to get more feedback from you :)

Update: Conch is ported to Drupal 7 responsive theme, please check it at the project page: http://drupal.org/project/conch.

The new wiki Drupal local groups directory has been recently opened, with local groups classified by world region (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America) and country.

Thanks to some spiffy and concise coding by codelust, we've managed to implement voting nodes to the front page in Drupal 6.x at our test site.

You will need the following modules installed:

votingapi
rules
token
token custom
vote up/down
vote up/down nodes (or any voting method that increments votingapi_select_votes)