1. Placing blocks for the first time

Disabled blocks do not appear in the disabled blocks section of the blocks admin page.
This took me a couple of hours to find.

There is a great article on Drupal Selling Points here: http://www.digett.com/2009/01/22/drupal-selling-points

Top Notch Themes have posted twelve designs by Vancouver-based IMAGEX MEDIA.

http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/081008/12-knockout-drupal-designs

Not only are these superb designs, but they reflect current web trends and so are worthwile examining for anyone interested in web design.

A great article can be found here: CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites which lists (as you may guess) 31 excellent sites.
It is great that an image of the home page of each site is posted, but it would have been even better if a few words were said about each site, particularly what makes them "remarkable".

The article Selecting an Open Source Content Management Solution Using Web 2.0 to Drive Online Sales compares four systems: Drupal, Alfresco, Joomla, and Liferay. There is a chart that evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. The choice was made to go with Drupal, and the article describes how this led to a successful implementation.

seo-expert-blog.com has just published The Most Incomplete List of Drupal Sites
http://www.seo-expert-blog.com/list/the-most-incomplete-list-of-drupal-s...
It is a great list!
Two other great listings are: http://www.drupalsites.net/
and: http://unspun.amazon.com/Top-Drupal-Sites/list/show/4583

MTV have recently revamped their UK site using Drupal. Also worth seeing are:

• The Peter Droge Online presence, done in a Drupal / Flash hybrid
• Project Opus, the Indie music bands support site
• Sony BMG Musicbox Video download site
• The Official Site of the Grateful Dead
• Lifetime Television is one of the most popular cable networks in the United States. When the television network decided to relaunch LifetimeTV.com, they did it entirely on the Drupal platform
• Featured in Newsweek, Dabble.com is a web start-up focused on social-video-sharing. It allows users to easily share with one another interesting videos found all over the net.

Ledalite has a very attractive new website using Drupal. It is a table-less theme with some javascript effects and subtle shading that makes the site pleasant to look at and to use. The "product quick links" is an interesting feature. There are also some very nice image galleries on the site.

SavannahNOW, the online arm of the Savannah (GA, US) Morning News has been awarded the 2007 Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative Visitor Participation.
The Digital Edge Awards are the U.S. Newspaper industry's highest honors for online publication. Visit the site at: http://savannahnow.com/

http://adsoftheworld.com/ is a simply and attractively designed Drupal site featuring photos of unusual or striking advertisements.