Well, it's been quite a while since I've posted on Drupnewb.

I started working with Drupal in late 2007. A few months later I got a job working with CakePHP, which kind of derailed my Drupal work. After the CakePHP work I got a contract working with CodeIgniter, which has been ongoing. More recently I've had more even work with CakePHP. So, I've been into frameworks for the past year. The sites I worked on with Cake and CI were not CMSs or collaborative sites, so frameworks made more sense that Drupal.

As much as I love a good forum, and considering that forums come right in the base Drupal install, it is very odd that I hadn't added a forum to DrupNewb until now.

I guess you could say that with the existance of the forums on the main Drupal site (http://drupal.org/forum) the world doesn't really need another Drupal forum, and you would be correct.

Still, a good Drupal learning site does need a forum, so there you have it.

I wanted to see how easy it is to set up a new theme for Drupal, and it is indeed very easy. Mind you, all I did was to take an existing theme(bluemarine), copied it, changed a few things in the css to make the text green, and installed it. So, if I had any design skills at all I'll be at it for hours, but the basic concept here is quite simple.

Step 1 - find a base theme to work with.
I choose bluemarine

Step 2 - copy that theme's entire folder into a new folder with a new name.
I copied themes/bluemarine to sites/all/themes/greenmarine

Step 3 - change your copied theme.

You may wonder why a cutting edge Drupal site like DrupNewb is still mired at V5.x, and hasn't made the jump to V6.x.

Well, don't forget that you need to have all the supporting modules you need for a version of Drupal available if you want to bring them up to that version. Unfortunately, I added a bunch of modules to DrupNewb to test them out. Now I need to either get rid of some modules, wait until v6 versions of those modules are available, or just move them up to 6 and "see what happens".

Here is a portrait of the always charismatic Percy which we used as a Christmas card in 2005.

Percy passed away in his sleep on February 3rd, 2008.

Percy in a sun spot. Percy was getting a little older, but that didn't stop him from pursuing sunspots around the house.

A photo of Wooster enjoying a sunspot.

Wooster in the Sun: A photo of Wooster enjoying a sunspot.

Here I'm using the "add child" link at the bottom of the book to add a page.

I used the little +photo icon to add the photo, which as I recall I got by adding a few image modules.

Using the "add page" link at the bottom of my test book I'm adding another page. I'm then adding a full page photo of Percy with Image Assist.

Percy in the Sun: Percy in a sun spot. Percy in the sun about a month before he passed away. Even getting older and arthritic didn't stop Percy from pursuing sunspots around the house.

Testing out what Drupal books and pages are. I start off by using Create Content >> Submit Book Page.

Once I created the book I used the "add child" link at the bottom of the page to add a page to the book.

After that I added another page to the book using the same method.

I then added a child page to the first page, which resulted in some weird navigation, so I decied to delete the child of the first page. However, I manged instead to delete my very first page when I meant to delete it's child page.