Obviously I have a lot to learn about Drupal7, and today I tried something new, which I haven't yet done in D6: adding a feed aggregator to my site.

First, a word about how I learn. Generally I'm pretty good at self-paced study, and my provider of choice is Lynda.com. I've been using this company's training videos to learn all sorts of computer skills for several years. I subscribe to the basic service, so I don't go through the exercises using the files provided with a premium membership. Instead, I try to make up similar exercises on my own site.

You'll see evidence of my most recent learning experience on this website - or, I should say, you won't easily find it there! I'm not sure why, or what I've done wrong. I've aggregated two blogs - one by my Lynda.com instructor for D7 Essential Training, Tom Geller, who blogs about Drupal at www.tomgeller.com, and the other from the Drupal website. Tom's blog hasn't been updated since January, so I didn't get any results there - but even so, he deserves a plug here for all he's taught me about Drupal!

I succeeded in bringing the Drupal Planet blog in from drupal.org/planet. I tried to configure it in the Bartik theme by placing it in the "Sidebar Second" region - in other words, the right-hand side of the page - but it doesn't show up there. Then, I tried to put it in the Tryptich region at the bottom of the page. No luck.

Tomorrow is another day ... and I'll spend some time figuring out why my "blogroll" won't show up where I tell it to. No promises - but in the meantime, if you want to follow this exercise as I add more Drupal blogs (if I can find any), go to http://www.hazelbecker.com/?q=aggregator/categories/1. I hope I'll be able to make it show up on the Home page soon.