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When it comes to choosing a theme for Drupal what is it that you look for in a theme?

Over the past three weeks I wanted to give one of my sites a new look. I looked at all the Drupal themes for version 6, there are quite a few that I found intriguing.

I had used a previous theme that had been converted from the wordpress theme Revolution Music by RoopleTheme. Since I had one of the developer packages for the Revolution theme I put the theme into use.

{ Read more LiteJazz Plus RootCandy Theme For Drupal 6 }

This past weekend I was searching for a way to take the recent posts block and have it display offset posts and limit it to 5 posts.

I found information on creating it by using php code inserted into a block, I was looking for something simpler.

The solution was to start leaning more about the Drupal Views module. So when in doubt it always pays to read the manual. In the Views tutorial there is a section titled "Create a block of author’s recent blog posts."

{ Read more Using Drupal 6 Views To Create Offset Recent Posts. }

For a little more than a year now, I’ve been running Drupal on two of my websites, this site and my solar power site. Two of my other sites run Wordpress, along with my wife’s site.

What brought me to write this post was just a few of the observations I’ve made over the past year between the two platforms for delivering content. It really is an unfair comparison between them.

{ Read more One Year Observation Between Drupal And WordPress. }

I’ve had a few questions come in over the past few weeks, maybe it’s time I got around to responding. The latest question came in the form of what module do I use to have my graphics open in its own window.

I actually learned about it while doing research and training on web video. So it was nice to see that Drupal 5 and 6 had a module Lightbox2 that was ready to go. I use it in a very simple form, and from what I gather it will do a lot more.

{ Read more Using Lightbox2 with Drupal 6-x }