1. Download the latest stable release of Drupal-6.15 at http://drupal.org/project/drupal
   Note:
   • Drupal Version 7.0 is also available in Alpha2 release. You may wait for its stable version if you want to deploy it for production use.
2. Drupal files and its associated modules are compressed in .tar.gz format. For Unix/Linux users proceed to step 3 and for Windows users, proceed to step 5.
3. For Unix/Linux users, you can extract Drupal using the following command:
   # tar -xzvpf drupal-x.x.tar.gz

This command will create a new directory drupal-x.x/ which contains all Drupal files and directories while preserving its file and directory permissions. If you used the former path, you can access your drupal site at http://localhost/

4. Move this directory into your web server's document root or your public HTML directory.
   

Last week, I conducted a 1-day Seminar-Workshop in Web Site Development using Drupal at Misamis University, Ozamiz City. I gave a short presentation as an introduction about Drupal in the morning and then in the afternoon, I gave a series of short exercises starting from Drupal 6.15 installation up to Creating a Module in Drupal.

There were around 60+ participants in the event. The target audience were a mixed of Computer Science, Information Technology and Computer Engineering students and faculty members of the College of Computer Studies of Misamis University. Some freelance programmers and web developers in the area also showed-up to attend the seminar and they approached me after the workshop telling me that they were impressed on the features of Drupal especially in creating customized modules to extend its capabilities.

Here are the slides I used in the seminar. I will also share here the exercises I gave them in the workshop.