Uwe Hermann has written a comprehensive article in the current issue of PHP Solutions, German edition Ausgabe 1 2006 (13). Uwe walks his readers through installing Drupal, and considers topics like multisite setups from the very beginning. He pays careful attention to describing how one would create a portal site (music portal in his article), where the site would be accessed using different subdomains, such as rock.example.com, blues.example.com and classical.example.com. This includes using database prefixing, and Uwe provides assistance on using the database prefixing scripts which ship with Drupal.

After laying the groundwork for a multi-domain portal, Uwe takes us through configuring Drupal, concepts like themes, modules, user privileges and roles, and creating content.

As the article covers the Drupal 4.7 branch, care is taken to point out some of the cool features like auto-completion on the "Authored by" field. Uwe knows how to present Drupal's strengths.

More than a whole page is spent explaining how to write international sites in Drupal, covering both the use of the locale.module and the i18n.module.

WYSIWYG editing is covered (the portal chooses FCKeditor). Categories and tagging are demonstrated.

The final section covers a multi-pronged approach to search engine optimisation, starting with Drupal's built-in path.module, then discussing pathauto, google sitemaps and the node keywords modules.

Good job Uwe! This is a great article, and in combination with Hagen Graf's upcoming book, I expect the number of German-speaking Drupal users to skyrocket in the coming months.

Drupal version: Drupal 4.7.x