I've been away from Drupal and Drupnewb for about a week as we moved from an apartment here in San Diego to a house. I hope my legions of fans haven't been too disappointed...

Anyway, last Tuesday, November 20th I attended the local San Diego Drupal Group meeting (groups.drupal.org/node%252F4038) held at the Cream Coffee Bar (www.newtosandiego.com/Cream-Coffee-Bar/). It was great to meet some other local Drupers, and Harry Slaughter (www.devbee.com) did a very nice presentation on what to expect from Drupal 6.

I took a photo of the group for my blog, and so it seems I need to add the image module to do that. Yay, the first module addon for DrupNewb.com!

I started by downloading the Image files from drupal.org/project/image. For me this was image-5.x-1.6.tar.gz. I then used winzip to uncompress these files into a folder called "image". I uploaded the whole folder to my server under sites/all/modules.

To activate the modules in Drupal I went into
Administer -> Site Building -> Modules and checked the enabled box next to each of the 5 things that image added. I'm not exactly sure that I need all 5, but for now they are checked. So how easy was that? I simply added the modules to the correct spot and Drupal knew what to do.

Now I was ready to add an image to my site. I went into Create Content -> Image added a title and chose the image from my hard drive to upload. Alas, the default max file size is 800KB, and my file was like 850KB. I went into Administer -> Site Configuration -> Image and changed the Maximum Upload size to 2000KB. After that my file easily uploaded.

While this does have the group photo now on the DrupNewb home page, I don't see how to add it to my blog. Hmm, have to tackle that next!