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Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Posted from flickr, so that's working again. This is a personal blog post which has been removed from promotion on the front page.

There's a topic  in the questions and answers forum about "blogs or forums"  and we are  wondering about personalisation in the setup and if maybe new blog posts don't necessarily get published to the front page. 

John Smith gave me an opportunity to try out fantastico, and I had a quick experiment. By using fantastico, you can skip over the need to follow the intallation intructions which come with the drupal download. File transfer, making the directory, creating the database, running the script to make the tables, and setting up the first user (admin) are all done for you.

But you will still need to be able to ftp and grant directory permissions in order install additional modules, themes, and allow file uploads.

So a basic install up and running in seconds, and there's no reason why starting out this way should inhibit further progress so long as the ISP also allows FTP access as well as via control panel, which they almost certainly will unless it's an educational institution or something like that rather than a commercial ISP, and even then it's probably just a question of asking for the ftp account details for your domain.

A new vocabulary has been created called 'folksonomy' which should enable free tagging on all kinds of content.

It was in the theme configuration: user images in posts, user images in comments

Learning path

From the display of rendered rss in the wiki, I looked at 'Popular items tagged 'drupal'

from deli.cio.us and noticed '10 Drupal Modules You Can't Live Without | Nick Lewis: The Blog '

Number 1 is TinyMCE WYSIWYG EDITOR so I followed the instructions and installed it.

The only hitch was when the option to administer settings for tinymce didn't appear in the settings menu. I had to arrive there by contructing the url myself

I've tracked down what I think is causing problems with logged in users being regarded as unauthenticated sometimes, and it's to do with a blanket filter which my hosting company seems to have deployed. See Wordpress blog or Wiki for further details.

The 'create content" menu disappeared for a little while there, when I attached it to the top menu. It should be back in your personal side bar menu now, as well working from the Create/Write button at the top.

How else can the navigation be improved?

theden

Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Blogged to drupal direct from Flickr