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I'm writing this page mainly as a way to not have to type it all in any more.  I do/have-done a fair number of free websites for various groups and causes.  I've done some paid sites as well.  Often I find myself walking someone thru what a theme is and how I can bust them out a simple site quick if they choose to use a free theme.  The rest of this page is that discussion. 

This page discusses a Drupal website, specifically the visual design (or template) of the site.  This is known as the "theme" in Drupal speak.

Drupal is a "Content Management System" -- a system that allows people to modify the website by using the website.  Generally, a user will log in and then add and update pages, and update the operation of the site.  Drupal makes this fairly easy.  Drupal has a modular design which is used by many community contributions that have been created for the Drupal system.  These contributions provide with enormous power to make a high-functioning website.

A Drupal website be broken down into three things: 

I liked this guy's answer a lot -- doesn't mess around w/ command line stuff and allows the creation of transparent favicons.

From: http://www.techanswerguy.com/2007/03/creating-transparent-faviconico-wit...

creating a transparent favicon.ico with Gimp
I'm always forgetting the steps to do this properly. Here you go:
1) open a favorite image that you'd like to turn into a favicon to appear in your browser's location bar
2) click Image->Mode->RGB
3) using the erase tool, erase any areas of the graphic that you'd like to be transparent

cool site using rewrite rules in an .htaccess file http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php mod_rewrite on apache http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html