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Before we can begin any work on Drupal, we must first prepare and install Drupal either on your web host server or locally on your own machine for testing.

Below is video clips to guide you through on how to install Drupal 6 (the process is pretty the same for Drupal 5):

Installing Drupal 6

Thanks to Addison (Add1sun) Berry of Lullabot.

Resources:

• Download Drupal 6
• Filezilla, a free FTP program
• phpmyadmin, most web hosting provider will provide this on your hosting package