Bill, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for the link to drupal-education group. Now, I am also a member of it. I found it very informative and some of the group posts instantly solved my confusions. Also, here I am more concerned about a public facing website using drupal with the facilities I listed in my first mail. For the collaborative/learning environment I find moodle to be a good out-of-the-box solution. I was searching for the ways so that moodle and drupal could be integrated in some way. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Shyamala, </div><div><br></div><div>I visited your blog page, a very useful post over there. Well, I am not from Chennai, but still keeping in touch with local drupal communities could be a great idea. Just to mention on the theming part, I am thinking about keeping Zen or something else as my base theme or modifying it according to my needs. I just gone through the theming guide for drupal 6 (though I got confused at some points, but still it gave me an initial pace to build up a theme! What else did I want... :) )</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Jai<br></div>