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This guide provides resources for choosing a web hosting service that supports the Drupal content management system. Interesting and useful check it out.

"How to Choose Your Hosting Provider for Your Drupal Installation"

Sometimes there's more than one way to get the job done.
Here are the two options I've learned to run my drupal cron jobs.

Option 1

/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.ttamniwdoog.com/cron.php

Option 2

/usr/bin/lynx -dump http://www.ttamniwdoog.com/cron.php > /dev/null

Presented by Jeff Robbins at Design4Drupal, Boston.

Presented by Kathleen Murtagh at Design4Drupal, Boston.

Following CCK 101 is an introduction to the next most essential module for site building: Views. This session will go over the UI to create views from the same content types discussed in CCK 101.

CCK 101: Content Construction Kit: An Essential Drupal Module

Follow on: http://boston.design4drupal.org/session/views-101-video

Presented by Charles Novick at Design4Drupal, Boston.

Theming a Drupal site requires the vision to create a great interface and the ability to translate that interface into code that delivers the information you want where you want it, in the right font and color.

This session will explore the approach new designers/themers should take to prepare themselves for Drupal. We will discuss how to achieve your aesthetic objectives by understanding the basic conventions of coding and how themers can best accept the unfamiliar.

Presented by Kathleen Murtagh at Design4Drupal, Boston.

A "sustainable" theme is one that can grow seemingly effortlessly as the site grows. It saves time reducing theme work in the long term, and allows developers to change and add new sections that just "look right" right away.

Follow on: http://boston.design4drupal.org/session/theming-sustainably-while-using-zen-slides-handouts-video

Presented by Moshe Weitzman at Design4Drupal, Boston.

Demonstrate the power of the theme developer module for understanding the variables and template suggestions that Drupal provides.

Read on: http://boston.design4drupal.org/session/theme-developer-module-demo-screencast-description-video

Presented by David Moore at Design4Drupal, Boston.

New(-ish) to drupal? A developer or designer who wants to get into drupal theming? This is for you. We'll walk you through the basics of themes: how to find them, where to put them. Then we'll dissect a typical theme. Learn the what all these files do: .info, css, page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php

Please read on: http://boston.design4drupal.org/session/theme-anatomy-101-slides-video

Presented by Matt Tucker at Design4Drupal, Boston.

Studio base theme gives a whole new array (pun intended) of capabilities for themers. By re-structuring some of the key aspects of the theme system such as preprocess functions, and keeping attributes as arrays until output, Studio provides a sustainable theme, making it easier to make incremental changes without the need to create additional template files.