Smashing Magazine has posted a couple articles to help web developers and designers with their Wordpress and Drupal sites.  Some great suggestions and resources are listed in these articles.

1. WordPress Developer’s Toolbox
2. Drupal Developer's Toolbox

The articles don't include everything, but it's a wonderful start for those just beginning to learn about Drupal or Wordpress.  Link found via Nick Lewis' blog.

Acquia: Drupal’s ambitious search module provides a framework for building searches of all kinds. By isolating the tasks involved in searching, and allowing the actual search implementations to be handled by other modules, the search framework sets the stage for all sorts of creative search applications. This article, which applies to Drupal 6, explores the structure of the search framework by following the steps needed to execute a search.

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Confession: I never knew how much there was to Photoshop until my wife, the photographer, decided to move over to the digital age. During the course of our marriage, while she has excelled in the art of digital photography, as well as Photoshop, I have remained the amateur.

Luckily, Corrie Haffly at Sitepoint has started a series of articles for geeks like us who still think all we need on our Websites is any of the eight colors we learned when we were five. (By the way, I got a star on my paper in kindergarten...red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, and black!)

The visual style that has come to be associated with the term
Web 2.0 has exploded in popularity; everywhere you look, corporate
sites, web service sites, ecommerce sites, and even personal blogs are
making use of clean, minimalist design coupled with fancy graphic
effects. If you'd like to jump on the bandwagon, this is the article
for you!

"Get innovative with the well-known Really Simple Syndication format's
associative properties and emulate the functions of a simple relational
database. Use RSS elements and attributes such as items and guids to
create a neural-network-like mesh of related data, and use RSS channels
to store contact information and meeting information, much like a
personal address book and calendar."

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"While it certainly makes no attempt to constitute a complete guide to the Ruby language, this tutorial will introduce you to some of the basics of Ruby. We'll power through a crash-course in object oriented programming, covering the more common features of the language along the way, and leaving the more obscure aspects of Ruby for a dedicated reference guide. I'll also point out some of the advantages that Ruby has over other languages when it comes to developing applications for the Web."

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"Packt Publishing is offering an exclusive offer to all Mamboserver.com users. Purchase the newly released book (Dec 2006) 'Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website' and receive a 20% discount off the full price of the book (this offer is also applicable to multi-buys)."

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"Packt Publishing has published their third Mambo Book, Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website."

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