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Drupal 6.13 and 5.19 released
Drupal 6.13 and 5.19, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well.
Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.
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"Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data" video series from Lynda.com
Online video provider Lynda.com just released my new six-hour video series, "Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data". You can check it out with a free one-day pass; it's also available to anyone with a Lynda.com subscription, which starts at $25/month.
The course covers calendars, mapping, charting, and preparing data for tabular export, all built on a foundation of CCK and Views. Since Lynda.com's audience is mostly graphic designers, the course also includes clarification about how to plan data structures. Extra bonus: For giggles, check out the Introduction video, which includes some live-action video of the author looking goofy. :)
One wag in IRC questioned the need for such a course. "Presentation of Data?," he said. "Isn't that what Drupal does anyway?" He's right -- in the same way that a car is a tool for going shopping.
But I believe that many people who would benefit from Drupal's data-presentation features simply don't know about them, because their knowledge of it stops at Stories, Pages, users, and blocks. They need a bit more information to make the leap, and could become fierce advocates for Drupal when they see all it can do in this area.
AdaptiveThemes - Crowd Sourcing Drupal Themes
Just a quiet heads up about my new service for designers and Drupal themers. adaptivethemes.com re-launched a few day ago as a commercial theme provider - with a twist - all themes are crowd sourced from designers and ported to Drupal by professional themers. Proceeds of the sale of the themes is spit between the designer and the themer.
The site is open for registration for all, but the actual shop won't go live until August 1st. We're still in process of sorting out Ubercart and building the first round of beautiful themes. We're most certainly aiming for high quality themes (premium) but of course its up to themers and designers to come together to make the magic happen.
So far the response has been pretty solid with regular signups over the past 2 days being spit about 50/50 designers and designer/themers with a couple of hard core themers joining the fray. Really cool thing is I've chatted with most of the new members and about 1/3 have never used Drupal, so that's really good news.
Check it out http://adaptivethemes.com
/Jeff
Drupal Aggragator image
Hi i'm new to drupal, the problem that i'm having is that the core drupal aggregator displays images within the source...but it does not when you display it in a block...and what i want is that the block that displays the feed, should display both the title and description with the images on the side of the block. Please help if you can
Edited by WorldFallz - moved to appropriate forum.
