I went into Home >> User Account -> Edit, and noticed that I could Upload a picture of myself. The only difficulty was "Maximum dimensions are 85x85 and the maximum size is 200 kB."

So, I went into Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. I opened the photo I wanted to use. As the photo had to be pretty small to upload I started by using the crop tool to select a smaller area of the photo. Once I selected an area I used edit>>cut, and then file>>new from clipboard. With that new image I went into file>>save for web, set the height to 85 and the file type to png-24 and saved.

This one is pretty simple. I was reading about Blocks, and so went to Home » Administer » Site building » Blocks. On that page you have a list of Blocks you are currently showing in a region, and below that a list that you can add to a Region. If you want to add a Block that has a region of <none>, just use the drop down list to select a region to add it to.

To put the "Latest image" in my left side nav I simply went to Home » Administer » Site building » Blocks, found where "Latest image" had an image of <none>, selected "Left sidebar", and pressed "Save blocks".

First I uploaded the image module to allow me to upload images. Then I uploaded the image assist module to allow me to add an image to a blog post.

Now, it is time to add images to galleries. This wasn't too hard, as I already had the modules I needed installed. I just went into
Home » Administer » Content management » Image galleries and added two galeries. I added "Drupal Photos" and then "Cat Photos". I added the cat photos gallery because I wanted to see what using two photo galleries was like and I have so darn many cat photos on my hard drive.

In my last post I talked about adding the Image module. I added the Image module because I wanted to add a photo to a blog post. While adding Image allowed me to upload images to the DrupNewb site, it did not allow me to add them to my blog posts. I looked out on the Drupal.org forums, and found this post (http://drupal.org/node/193156) which said that I need the Image Assist module and why. Essentially, using the Image module allows me to upload images as "Nodes" on their own. Image Assist makes it possible to add images as supporting content for other Nodes. Makes sense.

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.

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.