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 * About Drupal
 * Use and configure your Drupal site
 * Change the look and feel of your Drupal site
 * Write code for your Drupal site

ABOUT DRUPAL
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Drupal is an open source content management platform supporting a variety of
websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. For
more information, see the Drupal website at http://drupal.org/, and join the
Drupal community at http://drupal.org/contribute.

USE AND CONFIGURE YOUR DRUPAL SITE
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Drupal core (drupal-x.xx.tar.gz) includes what you need to get started with your
website. Drupal includes several "modules" for common functionality such as
managing content and user accounts. Additional features are added to Drupal by
adding modules. Drupal ships with several modules to provide additional
functionality such as image uploading, search, and content translation. More
contributed modules (not included with Drupal core) are available from the
drupal.org website to enable additional functionality.

 * Install, upgrade, and maintain Drupal:
   See INSTALL.txt and UPGRADE.txt in the same directory as this document. 
 * Learn about Drupal to create and improve your site:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started
 * Enable additional modules included with core. 
   http://drupal.org/handbook/modules
 * Download contributed modules to extend Drupal's functionality:
   http://drupal.org/project/modules
 * Install additional modules in sites/all/modules:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install-contrib
 * Move beyond the basics of Drupal:
   http://drupal.org/handbook/customization

CHANGE THE LOOK AND FEEL OF YOUR DRUPAL SITE
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Drupal contains a theme system to separate the look and feel of a website from
its functionality and content. By default, Drupal uses the "Garland" theme for
displaying content to users, and uses the "Seven" theme for the administrative
interface. To customize Drupal's display further, see the following resources.

 * Change the default themes with those provided in core:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/admin/build/themes
 * Download contributed themes for Drupal:
   http://drupal.org/project/themes
 * Install new contributed themes:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install-contrib/themes
 * Change Drupal's appearance and output ("theme") with HTML, CSS, and PHP:
   http://drupal.org/theme-guide
 * Collaborate with other Drupal themers:
   http://drupal.org/contribute/themes
 * Install additional themes in sites/all/themes:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install-contrib

WRITE CODE FOR YOUR DRUPAL SITE
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Drupal contains an extensive API to allow the creation of new modules to extend
Drupal's core functionality. Nearly any part of Drupal's functionality can be
modified and overridden by additional modules by implementing Drupal "hooks".
There are thousands of contributed modules available on the Drupal website.
Before writing a new module, be sure to search the Drupal website for a module
which meets your requirements.

 * Don't modify core Drupal files ("hack core"):
   http://drupal.org/node/144376
 * Write modules for Drupal using PHP:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install-contrib/modules
   http://drupal.org/developing/modules
 * Use Drupal's API and hooks:
   http://api.drupal.org/
   http://drupal.org/node/326
   http://api.drupal.org/api/group/hooks/7
 * Contribute to the community by helping build Drupal itself:
   http://drupal.org/contribute/development