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There is always confusion for selecting the theme according to requirements while creating any drupal site. Obviously, the theme selection depends on the region and blocks present in the sample html or psd which we have available. But not only these are the important aspects. There are lot more things nowadays which we have to consider while creating any Drupal theme. Even if its from scratch or if we take any theme directly from Drupal.org.

Following are few suggestions for different puroposes of themes :

Installation :

Special part of installation of the Drupal commons involves increasing the following parameters in the PHP.

Maximum Execution time : 300

Maximum Input time : 240

Drupal commons won't install if above changes are not done.

Features :

Drupal commons is drupal with all the community features added in one single package.
It has lot of featured modules present for community website and community application.

Features tab : contains group of collective modules which we can use for different purposes

Debian (Ubuntu)

1. Configure Apache2 for Sites :

Before you jump to configure your virtual hosts do not forget to add host names in /etc/hosts file.

your.ip.add.res vritualhost_1.name
your.2.ip.add.res virtualhost_2.name

2. Apache2 needs to be configured to support vhost access to your new sites.

Create vhost site configuration files in /etc/apache2/sites-available/

#
# Virtual hosting configuration for Drupal
#

ServerAdmin [your email address]

DocumentRoot /usr/share/drupal6/
ServerName [your vhost#1 name]

1. Download and install Drupal.
2. Enable the Locale module
3. Download the module i18 ie. internationalization module and enable all its sub modules for translation.
4. Download the Translations from the http://drupal.org/project/Translations link and extract those in the drupal home folder. You can use following video for the reference link ie. http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/installing-drupal-translation.
5. Go to content type that you want to translate and select
Enabled, with translation the workflow settings. Also