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Those of you who have been visiting Splat regularly, might have seen a lot of changes that are happening around here in the past 24 hours. These changes have been made after quite a bit of considerations on the mission of WiseTome.com.

The mission of WiseTome is to become a continuously expanding library of articles and information on growing number of topics.

A fresh Drupal installation would be having URL (Uniform Resource Locators) of the following fashion:

http://www.wisetome.com/?q=node/1

As of Drupal 5, there are six core required modules (Block, Filter, Node, System, User, Watchdog) and around 23 supplied modules that are usually not activated.

The required core modules are - well - required. They cannot even be turned off - so we need not bother learning about them unless we are into custom module development. The other 23 modules are worth looking into, and they usually will supply most of the basic extended functionality you might need.

After setting up a handful of Drupal powered sites, it has formed a habit on setting up the different modules and themes that put the site on a 'ready to go live' or 'ready to build upon' state. This basically involves going through a set of items and options in the Drupal administration area and setting them up.

In this article, I will be assuming a Drupal 5 installation. The Drupal 6 would be having what are called 'install profiles' that will actually ask few questions and setup these basic setups for you.

Drupal, is one of the choices you may take among the other CMS. And as I said earlier, there are three things that you need to setup a Drupal powered website - a webserver, PHP and a database. If these are available, you can install a Drupal instance.

Before I go into a bit of details on how you can install Drupal, let us look at what phases a software undergoes before being actually used by the users.

Drupal is an Open Source Content Management system. It is a CMS with which you will be able to build a website.

To install Drupal, the hosting setup needs to meet certain set of requirements. The basic requirements are:

This post is just a heads up on things I will be posting about Drupal in following weeks. I have been using this content management system (CMS) for quite some time (and also Wordpress).

This site - the root - runs on Drupal. This blog though, runs on Wordpress. (Update - Splat has been migrated and consolidated into the root site and now runs on Drupal).

It has been not long back that Google made a move to acquire DoubleClick. This sent waves of different emotions through out the blogosphere and internet in general. Google has been grown to such an extent under such a short time, that it is faced with quite a varied palette of reactions for every action it takes.

Social Networking Sites, as much as they build bridges between people, also are a cause for deterioration of behavior of the community as a whole.

It is basically not just Social Networking Sites, but any site that foster interaction between people - is a place where community behavior could take the wrong turn.

Social Networking Sites have quite a few features that are quite common, even if it is a general site or a site on targeted niche.

Basically these sites have the following features.

• Profile
• Friends List
• Messaging
• Discussion