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From the project page...

"uBrowser is the new way to browse taxonomy for Drupal 5.x. It creates an easy to use interface for browsing vocabularies (categories) like you would browse a directory tree. Each term in the vocabulary is like a file folder, and clicking on it in the category select box will display all the nodes that have been classified with that term in the node select box. The look may be changed in the CSS, but other display options such as search forms, action buttons, and display names may be specified when the uBrowser is built for display."

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Dries has benchmarked Drupal 5 against Drupal 4.7. The results are mixed, with the end result being that most sites will be faster, some will be much faster, and some will be marginally slower. I've been eagerly awaiting these results, and they are roughly in line with what I was expecting. Not all of the details are covered, of course; these are basic benchmarks that will paint a rough picture. Some features are significantly faster in Drupal 5. For example, if you have many modules which add CSS files to the theme, Drupal 5 is good for you (due to the CSS aggregator). If you have the recent comments block turned on, Drupal 5 will also outperform 4.7 in a significant way.

Thanks to Dries for these benchmarks. Who else has done benchmarking, and what are your results?

Hi everyone,

I am please to announce that WebFaction have added Drupal to
their one-click installer.
A screencast demo showing the installation of a Drupal site in a
few clicks is available at
http://blog.webfaction.com/drupal-and-joomla-screencast

=== About WebFaction ===

WebFaction offers solid and flexible hosting for all agile tools
(Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Rails, Django, Trac, ...).
Drupal hosting is available from $7.50/month.

Really useful set of screencasts giving a gentle introduction to Drupal 5.1 for newcomers.

I learned three things that weren't immediately obvious from the Handbooks/Docs/Help. Seeing the administration screens, the configuration steps and the end result on the screen is very helpful.

1. What on earth are primary links ?
2. How to display Categories in the sidebar ?
3. Why didn't Drupal honour my <h2> tags ?

Hello Drupal Community,

This is our first communication from Open West Labs (OWL) to the Drupal community. We have come here to offer and extend our support to your project. We would like to simply say hello to everyone and introduce our group so that each of you may get a better idea of our mission and how that intersects with the Drupal project and it's stated goals.

About OWL:

We are a small group of programmers, database experts and systems administrators based in Missoula,MT. Our core mission will be to support, through development, testing, documentation, bug fixing and an array of support services, OSS projects, their stated goals and their communities. We are a self-funded, not for profit group of individuals that are giving back to the OSS community in order to help facilitate adoption of OSS with a particular interest in the Western United States (our home).

Our Mission:

• To assist OSS projects in the development, design, management, deployment, documentation and administration of their project needs. We offer an array of services from very talented individuals.
• To facilitate Open Source adoption and community building activities within institiutions of higher education in the Western, Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain West states.
• To encourage the adoption of OSS within local city, county and state governments.