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Submitted by Linea on January 12, 2011 - 8:31pm

We'll give you an overview of Drupal Gardens and show you how to use Webforms to create custom forms on your Drupal Gardens site. Read more and register for the webinar on the Acquia site. 

Submitted by Linea on October 11, 2010 - 11:45am

The Drupal Gardens sites submitted for our recent contest were fantastic and it was really hard to pick just one winner. The site designs were judged on their creativity, attractiveness, and complexity. The winner is Susan MacPhee who built Ipswich Ale Brewery, the website for a New England craft brewer. Congratulations Susan - enjoy your new iPad!

Submitted by Linea on July 22, 2010 - 11:24am

Drupal Gardens was upgraded yesterday and one of the exciting features you'll see is a Site duplication feature. You can build a site, duplicate it, and use the copy as a starting place for a new site. The duplicated site will have your theme and all your saved themes, your modules, and settings. Users who have the Site owner or Administration roles will be copied, along with the content they created.

Submitted by Linea on July 3, 2010 - 8:02am

The Drupal Gardens design contest submissions are in!  People submitted so many great themes that it was really tough to choose just one winner - so the judges decided to pick two!

Submitted by Linea on June 27, 2010 - 10:46am

I'm not a CSS expert, so I love that I can create beautiful themes for my sites without writing a line of code. Ok, a real designer wouldn't call my themes beautiful, but they look good to me. We designed the ThemeBuilder both for people who aren't fluent in CSS and for professional designers who need to create sophisticated themes for their sites. When we released the first version of the ThemeBuilder, designers told us that the ThemeBuilder was limiting. As one designer told me, using the ThemeBuilder was like "themeing with mittens". We took this feedback and went back to the drawing board to rebuild our themes and add a lot more power to the ThemeBuilder. The latest release of the ThemeBuilder gives you the option of working in a Power theming mode to take advantage of new feautures.

Submitted by Linea on June 7, 2010 - 11:57am

We've had a flood of new people joining the Drupal Gardens site over the last few weeks so we decided to extend the deadline for the Design Contest to June 30th.

The prize is an Apple iPad.

The rules are easy:

1) Design a theme for your site using the ThemeBuilder

- This can be a real site or a site that you're thinking about building

- It's ok to add custom CSS via the Advanced tab

Submitted by Linea on March 25, 2010 - 3:57pm

Get a chance to win an Apple iPad by creating a beautiful site with Drupal Gardens. To qualify for the contest, add a link to your site in the Drupal Gardens Showcase forum. Sites will be judged based on the uniqueness of their design.

Submitted by Linea on March 18, 2010 - 11:47am

The Gardens beta testers are trying out all the knobs and buttons on the ThemeBuilder to create some interesting designs. Gardens is also giving people an easy way to try out Drupal 7, and all of us at Acquia are having a great time seeing what testers are creating. We're in beta, so there is lot of experimenting going on. We created a Sampler site to show you what the testers have been up to and we'll be posting new sites regularly.

Submitted by Linea on March 5, 2010 - 3:04pm

The Gardens beta testers are giving fantastic feedback and lots of people are talking to us about the pricing model. We've had a mountain of requests for custom domains in the free tier - and almost as many people are asking for a higher number of registered users.

We talked about it and we agree. We don't want any barriers to using Drupal Gardens - even for smallest sites, so you'll be able to pay a yearly fee to use a custom domain.