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Drupal has some excellent translation functions but deciding which modules to use and how to configure the modules is challenging. There are many different possible configurations depending on your website needs, domain names and content. You'll find there are a lot of choices of modules for setting up a multilingual site.... then there are a lot of key configuration items to enable depending on your website.

This post focused on Drupal 6 modules and issues. We will give some example of the difficult decision making involved in translating content. There is no out-of-the-box configuration that seems to work, it all depends on the needs of your website. There are many different modules to choose from in core and contrib and a lot of their functions overlap.

The best advice is to start with the core multilingual modules and then add other modules when needed. Good Luck Bon Chance Viel Glueck 幸運 Buona fortuna 好运 Buena suerte Удача

In this blog entry I outline the process I used to develop a fully functioning web gallery for my photography with drupal5. With good old google search by my side, being the great wealth of knowledge that it is, this turned out to be a simple process of just following a few tutorials.

Find a suitable theme

First off I wanted to find a suitable theme, something simple yet stylish. I was looking for a dark grey or black minimalist background so as not to distract from the impact of the images. I settled on this theme

For many Drupal websites, taxonomy is the most important part of a website's classifications.  Need more than is offered in the basic taxonomy?  Considering installing the Category module?  Beware!

Here are the warnings on the project page itself:

The Category module is large and very complex. Installing it and migrating your existing data into it is no small task, and uninstalling it is extremely difficult, if not impossible.

Please research other options before deciding to go with Category, and only use it if you feel there really is nothing else that can achieve the outcome you seek.

This is not a simple module.  The module's issue queue on drupal.org has over 350 issues.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from module users:

For those in the theming world, Common Look and Feel for the Internet 2.0 (aka CLF) is the source of many hours of CSS tinkering and artistic compromise but necessary if you want to make a Government of Canada compliant website

The context of CLF is noble:

Canadians have the right to obtain information and services from Government of Canada Web sites regardless of the technologies they use. The key to effective implementation of universal accessibility lies in designing sites to serve the widest possible audience and the broadest possible range of hardware and software platforms, from adaptive technologies to emerging technologies.

If you've used the panels module than panels2 is a logical upgrade. It lets you create a content pages which are divided into multiple areas which can include many kinds of content (e.g., nodes, blocks, views...)