Acquia: Drupal’s ambitious search module provides a framework for building searches of all kinds. By isolating the tasks involved in searching, and allowing the actual search implementations to be handled by other modules, the search framework sets the stage for all sorts of creative search applications. This article, which applies to Drupal 6, explores the structure of the search framework by following the steps needed to execute a search.

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Confession: I never knew how much there was to Photoshop until my wife, the photographer, decided to move over to the digital age. During the course of our marriage, while she has excelled in the art of digital photography, as well as Photoshop, I have remained the amateur.

Luckily, Corrie Haffly at Sitepoint has started a series of articles for geeks like us who still think all we need on our Websites is any of the eight colors we learned when we were five. (By the way, I got a star on my paper in kindergarten...red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, and black!)

The visual style that has come to be associated with the term Web 2.0 has exploded in popularity; everywhere you look, corporate sites, web service sites, ecommerce sites, and even personal blogs are making use of clean, minimalist design coupled with fancy graphic effects. If you'd like to jump on the bandwagon, this is the article for you!

"Get innovative with the well-known Really Simple Syndication format's associative properties and emulate the functions of a simple relational database. Use RSS elements and attributes such as items and guids to create a neural-network-like mesh of related data, and use RSS channels to store contact information and meeting information, much like a personal address book and calendar."

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"Packt Publishing is offering an exclusive offer to all Mamboserver.com users. Purchase the newly released book (Dec 2006) 'Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website' and receive a 20% discount off the full price of the book (this offer is also applicable to multi-buys)."

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"Packt Publishing has published their third Mambo Book, Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website."

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Don't have time to read the documentation for the upcoming Drupal 5? Then check out the video by the folks at Lullabot which includes the new features in Drupal 5.

This video gives a quick overview some of the new features available in Drupal 5. Covered items include the installer, the new theme, the new administration interface, the new status page, module page and installation improvements, improvements to user, content, and comment pages, administrator created content types, JQuery features, url filter, performance improvements, and a brief look at some prominent Drupal sites. More...

Kudos to Jeff Robbins and company!

Updated: I can't believe I missed this the first time around.  Lullabot also has a video on Installing Drupal 5.  One of the new feature for Drupal 5 is it now has an auto-installer script for both mySQL and postGres databases!

Sean Cribbs writes in his post:

"John Long has invited me to author a “How To” column for the Radiant weblog. The purpose of this column is to collect and distill useful solutions to common tasks that one might want to accomplish with Radiant. These “How To” entries will supplement an already growing section of the wiki called HowTos. For our first installment, we’ll discuss how to create your own “global tags”, or Radius tags that are available to every page, and encapsulate those in a plugin."

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"Here is a 35 minute video tutorial by TreasureCoastDesigns.com on how to install DragonflyCMS. The tutorial begins at downloading the correct stable core version from the DragonflyCMS website and takes you step by step through setting up a database, installation of DragonflyCMS, and then some basic tips on administration once you are up and running."

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