There are a lot books out there on facilitation. They all say basically the same thing. They tell you a well planned event is better than one you do off the cuff. This is true. However, the best made facilitation plans have unknown factors that can prevent the plan from being successfully executed. I started facilitating in the early 90's. I have observed some challenges that not all facilitators consider when facilitating.

Another way to customize a Drupal site is via it navigation. The menu structure that we will customize is the blocks. The primary links created using the admin/settings feature are shared by each site so they need to be common to each site. You want this to encourage a similar feel between the sites.

Using Drupal themes out-of-the-box might not be enough to make the two sites unique enough. The next step is to customize the theme into something you can call you own. Some the themes require engines to run while others do not. In either case, there are typically two parts to a theme that you can customize, the file that calls out the layout or structure of the site pages and the file the defines the styles.

The guidance provided below assumes:

• You have read "Multiple Sites, Multiple Databases, One Installation of Drupal" located on this site.
• You have read and followed the instructions in "Two Sites, One Database, One Installation of Drupal: DB Setup" located on this site.
• You are working with Drupal 4.6.x.
• You are only sharing two sites.
• The primary site is already configured.
• You have a second domain directed to your Drupal home directory.