Making a web site using a Content Management System. A step-by-step web design tutorial using the worlds favorite database driven web design system, Joomla!

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Here is a fast screencast covering the Date and Calendar modules for Drupal 6. This recipe illustrates one way to let your users post their own events (like parties, appointments, meetups, etc) that include date information stored in a field. Then you can see how to display these dates on a traditional calendar layout with all the events sorted into the correct days.

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This is just a reminder to myself — and perhaps will help other Drupal webmasters — of how to remove a module from the memory of a database. I encountered this when I was trying to remove and re-install Drupal’s advertisement module. I couldn’t re-install the module properly because some of the records related to the module was still in the database.

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WordPress Theme Design by Tessa Blakeley Silver is a slim book that is packed with information. Subtitled “A coplete guide to creating professional WordPress themes”, it is amazing how much the book lives up to its billing. What makes this book so unique and valuable is that it is not a syntax guide or how-to for dummies, it is instead a step by step design tutorial.

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