Drupal

After nearly two years of development, we are proud to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Drupal 7.x family. This alpha includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers.

Gardening is my new theme contribution to the Drupal community.

Drupal Gardening is a XHTML & CSS based nice Drupal Theme. Valid XHTML and CSS. It was originally designed for Wordpress by EZwpthemes and ported to Drupal by Azri Design (my individual company).

"Let these butterflies dancing first in your Drupal peach garden, then in your heart, for the beauty of spring!"

Features:

Drupal has won best open source PHP Content Management System for the second year in a row in the Packt Publishing 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Drupal won by popular vote and a critical selection by a panel of judges. This award reflects the strong support of the Drupal community and our focus on quality which leads to critical acclaim and rapid adoption for large, high quality projects. Drupal won best overall open source CMS in 2007 and 2008.
From the award announcement,

Drupal Travel is my first contribution to the Drupal community.
Drupal Travel is a XHTML & CSS based clean Drupal Theme with five regions (content top, sidebar, content, content top and footer). Valid XHTML and CSS. It is blue like Drupal.

Features:

* Logo
* Site name
* Site slogan
* Primary links
* Comment user pictures
* Sidebar, Content Top, Content Bottom, Footer

See it in action:
http://demo.azridesign.com/

Drupal is a Webware 100 winner for the third year in a row. This year Drupal was in the Social & Publishing category with well known services including MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress.com. Drupal was one of 10 winners in the category.

This post covers essential resources related to Drupal — the basics, modules, Drupal design inspiration, Drupal themes, tutorials, starter themes, blog editors and Drupal-projects.

1. The Basics

Just getting started with Drupal? Looking for some general resources to have bookmarked for when you need them? These resources will help you cover the basics of Drupal and provide documentation for much of your future work with the platform.

Drupal.org
The Drupal home page and location for downloading the latest version.

The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards this week - the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS. This marks the second consecutive year that Drupal has won Packt Publishing’s Overall Open Source CMS award. In addition, on Monday, Packt Publishing recognized leading Drupal contributor Earl Miles as a 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued Person (MVP).