The official press release: Drupal 6.0 Released - Bringing Greater Simplicity, Performance And Style To This Open Source Social Publishing Platform and in all languages: Drupal 6.0 released | drupal.org
5 Reasons you should choose Drupal for our Website | Translation Designs
What is the future of Drupal? very important!! see here: From infinite extensibility to infinite interoperability by Dries Buytaert who is the leader of the almightay drupal project:
I want the Drupal community to stay ahead of the competition. I want to start implementing today what proprietary CMS vendors will implement in 2013. From a content management system's point of view, I believe, that means (and I really hate to use the term 'Web 3.0'):
Web 3.0 = Web 2.0 + infinite interoperability
which roughly translates to:
Web 3.0 = Web 2.0 + data portability + web service APIs
While the short-term business opportunity might be to go after the social publishing market, I strongly believe that the long-term business opportunity lies in the infinite interoperability and that spans well beyond the social software market.
Thanks to Open Source software and companies like Google, the cost of building Web 2.0 applications will approach zero. Contrary to what one might think, this actually creates a lot of business opportunities. Opportunities that are best monetized through web services. But for that to happen, ubiquitous and seamless interoperability is key.
And here's How Drupal Will Save The World! Start here if you're confused.
Installing Drupal 6 | drupal.org - a great video introduction from Lullabot!
Drupal 6 Released and Ready to Manage your Content | Raincity Studios these guys have a pretty good summary of what is really going on with D6 and the various stuff going on around Drupal. Nice site design too. In Drupal we Trust | Raincity Studios
Another weekend with Drupal 6 | CMS Report sez it's good!
Modules: HOW ARE THE MODULES DOING for 6.0?? Contributed modules status - version 6.x | groups.drupal.org. It's gonna take a while (mid-March prolly) for key things.
Coming soon: Drupal Modules | Review, Rate, And Search Every Drupal Module
OPENID: This is actually of pivotal importance, for it changes how we think of Internet Identity! Make life easier for users with OpenID for Drupal | greenhughes.com
Tell search engines about new content on your Drupal site | greenhughes.com
Various posts trumpeting the Intro of Drupal 6:
- Drupal 6 released. Drupalistas celebrate! | TrevorTwining.com
- Drupal 6, now more than ever | GarfieldTech
- Drupal 6 Release | Idiotprogrammer
- Shiny Drupal 6 | OpenSpring
- Drupal 6 released! | Wim Leers has a good dev overview
- Drupal 6.0 Released | urlgreyhot is one of the more famed webdev blogs
How to rock theme development: if you haven't seen this, you haven't seen teh Futur of Teh Theme Developments! Theme developer module for Drupal 6 - Screencast
Zen theme 5.x-1.0 released for Drupal 5 and also is functional but Beta in D6, available here. Zen! Zen is a 'blank theme' good for developing on top of. Here's the docs for Zen.
For specific uses: Overriding contact.module, no core hacking required! | TrevorTwining.com
How to Remove Drupal System.css And Other Default CSS Files | Blamcast
Drupal Performance Agency | Tag1 Consulting, Inc. has some very helpful PDFs.
API = All new coolness:Saving Drupal code from database nonsense, Schema API is crucial for Module development and also the Batch API which handles... batching!
The nitty gritty: Drupal Hosting | Theme Garden Theme Garden is interesting but may not be cool with D6?
There will be a good Drupal 6 webcomic system which will let you make individual character pages, storylines and other badass elements. not bad! Webcomic 6.x Battle Plan | groups.drupal.org and it has its own group: Webcomics | groups.drupal.org
Lullabot is pretty sweet. They make good podcasts. For example how CCK works at the database level.
Social networking nibbles: SWiK's got stuff about Drupal. Drupal on Del.icio.us. Drupal for NonProfits is teh interesting!
Removing The Default CSS In Drupal 5 this has been an issue for me at various times, so it's quite a helpful nugget of code! This guy is also putting together something VERY cool and VERY needed: Drupal Modules | Review, Rate, And Search Every Drupal Module
Random site: this D6 supporter is getting more columns via Zen theme: brianpuccio.net | from my point of view
DrupalSites.net is cool but not working right at the moment.
For bored developers looking for useful projects: DROPDrupal Really Open Participation, is a project designed for organizing short-term tasks. which was a spinoff of google-highly-open-participation-drupal - Google Code project.
the google project created the very interesting Safe filter gizmo, lets you users make their own input filters : Flexifilter for D6. comes with a 'wiki' filter as example.
Looks like the News.infoshop.org is rocking Drupal. See their bits on Net War and cyber war.
CSS imagemaps: insane! A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death
Speed up your Drupal site: YSlow | Dries Buytaert. In the grand roster of 'really key things to read about Drupal' this particular article has achieved extreme fame! Apparently! Improving Drupal's page loading performance | Wim Leers
Yahoo shares their own more general tips: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
I thought that yelvington.com had some interesting bits, from a guy who appears to be an old school journalist & drupal 6 supporter.