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.

To get Drupal set up the way I wanted for DrupNewb I did need to change a few settings.

admin->site configuration->clean URLS
I enabled clean urls

admin->site configuration->site information
I set the Name to "DrupNewb"
I set the Slogan, Mission Statement, and Footer messages.
I set anonymous user to "Visitor"

admin->site building->themes
I set the default theme to bluemarine
In bluemarine->configure I set it to display logo, site name, and site slogan.
I also set up a new site logo, which I talk about in my last blog.

admin->site building->modules

One of the first things I wanted for my newbie site was a newbie logo. I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 to create my logo, using the shape tool to create the iconic kitten logo. I got a ton of shapes from the Adobe Exchange for Custom Shapes (www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/). I originally wanted to use a baby for the logo, but I couldn't find a baby shape and I could find a kitten. So, A kitten it was.

Welcome to www.DrupNewb.com, a site where I learn about building a Drupal site and tell all.

I started out by downloading the latest stable version of Drupal, which was 5.3, from www.Drupal.org to my laptop. Drupal comes in one big compressed file, which was named "drupal-5.3.tar.zip" when I downloaded it.

I used Winzip to uncompress the zip file into all the directories and files I would need to install Drupal. I uploaded the uncompressed files under the drupal-5.3 to the root directory for www.DrupNewb.com on my Lunarpages server.