I was trying to finish installing the Aquia Stack Installer from Drupal this morning so I could run a development server on my local machine.

THe problem was that the stack installer supplied by the fine folks over at Aquia kept hanging at the last step and kept spitting out the script "Running post install script. This may take a couple of minutes"

After a bit of searching online, I stumbled onto this forum on the Aquia site

http://acquia.com/node/1076934

Here is the problem.

I have begun using the Aquia installer to run a local version of this site on my home office PC in order to get a better handle on theme development in drupal
I've decided to take the Lynda.com course on Drupal theme development in an effort to better understand how the who thing works

My company wanted me to produce a document introducing my team to the basic concepts of Drupal.
I built the attached document as a first draft of my instructions.

I needed to make a Wordpress site private, but had a couple of issues since I have an external host and the software didn't support it, I found a great soultion here http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2008/keeping-a-wordpress-site-private/

I just discovered a cool little module today - term display

Here was my problem:

I had a taxonomy vocabulary set up to let the user decide whether to feature a story on the front page slide show of a site. The selection was either yes or no.

The problem was that the taxonomy term for yes or no would show up in the bottom of the article when it was posted At the the same time, This was bad...

U've been invited to participate in an interesting project at work - a multimedia 25th anniversery presentation for the company website.

I looked at the current history page, copy and pasted the code into a page right here ; http://stanascher.org/25years

There are referals to look at slideshows on the web, but as a temporary mock-up, I would like to see if I could get those slideshows running within a drupal page.

I have seen an interesting module here.: http://drupal.org/project/slideshare

Another website I'm building for a federal agency has presented a unique challenge.

It is built around a Drupal 5 installation, which in itself is a bit limiting since the modules are over 4 years old.

Also, due to federal restrictions on access, we have no access to the ftp site - this means that we have no ability to update modules, add functionality or configure css or file structures.

Needless to say, the interface is pretty boxy.

Now that I am beginning to understand the nuts and bolts of a Drupal Installation, I feel more confident while working with the Views and Panels modules.
Today, I changed the Panels layout on this website. I added a row in Panels and selected that row to contain columns. I made sure they were set to fixed, and then, I put separate rows in those columns.
The whole point of this endeavor is was to keep the theme fro "crushing my website" every time the window is resided. SO far, I've met with half success.

I'm building a website for USAID and I am struggling with building an interface that they want for their clients

. What they want is to have an interactive map on their front page that shows ups with pins every time they enter a "task order" into the system. So far, the solution I have come up with involves tying locations on the map to taxonomy terms within Drupal. The taxonomy terms work out well, but I have failed to find a way to tie the location module and the taxonomy terms together to make what I want.