I am somewhat proud to announce that a Drupal article written by me has been published by the German Linux journal Linux-Magazin. It's available in their Linux-Magazin Sonderheft 2/2005: Web Edition (a special issue about web publishing). Unfortunately the article is not available online, so you'll have to buy the magazine to read it.

My article gives a broad introduction to Drupal, covering the installation (and some troubleshooting) as well as the basic concepts like nodes, users, roles, permissions, themes, modules etc. I briefly introduce some important contributed modules, explain how one usually installs modules and give a short overview of what will be new in the next release, Drupal 4.6. There's also a tiny section about the history of Drupal, and I provided links to some interesting Drupal-stuff like Dries' homepage, the custom blocks repository (which has recently moved, so the URL in the article is wrong), the Drupal Theme Garden and the Drupal API documentation.

If you happen to have read the article, I'd be happy to get some feedback.

Update: The international Linux Magazine has published an English version of my article yesterday (May 6, 2005) in Issue 55 of their magazine (the translation was not done by me, btw). It doesn't appear to be available online, unfortunately.

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