## Welcome to your new Acquia Drupal website!

If you are new to Drupal, follow these steps to set up your web site in minutes: **Step 1. Start at the beginning**Visit the [administration section](/admin) for a task-based or [module-based](/admin/index) overview of the options available to configure your website. **Step 2. Connect to the Acquia Network**At any time you can activate an [Acquia Network](http://network.acquia.com/) subscription to gain access to Acquia's timely, professional support, automated services such as Mollom spam blocking, Acquia Library and documentation. Acquia offers subscription levels for every size web site - from individual blogs to enterprise-scale, multi-site deployments. Once you have your Acquia Network subscription keys, enter them on the [settings page](/admin/config/system/acquia-agent). Get started with a [free trial](http://network.acquia.com/) today. **Step 3. Activate functionality**Turn on added functionality for your site - blogs, forums, polls, tags, comments, and more. Acquia Drupal comes with important [modules](/admin/modules) to power social publishing capabilities on your site. Hundreds of additional Drupal 7.x compatible modules are available on Drupal.org in the [Drupal modules download section](http://drupal.org/project/Modules), which you can install [through your modules page](/admin/modules). **Step 4. Start publishing content**Start [creating content](/node/add) for your site. Depending on which modules you have activated, you may see blogs, forums, polls and more as available content types. ---

Some optional configuration tasks are shown below. For more information, please refer to the built-in [help section](/admin/help), or the [online Drupal handbooks](http://drupal.org/handbooks).

**Choose a different design**Start by [changing the colors](/admin/appearance/settings/bartik) of the default theme. To change the fundamental "look and feel" of your website, visit the [appearance section](/admin/appearance) and choose a theme from one of the many themes available out-of-the-box. Many additional Drupal 7.x compatible themes are available on Drupal.org in the [Drupal themes download section](http://drupal.org/project/Themes), which you can install [through your themes page](/admin/appearance). **Configure the front page**The default front page is a listing of all content marked as Promoted to front page. You can manage your content from the [content administration page](/admin/content). You can also designate, for example, an item of content you have created as the front page. See the [site information settings page](/admin/config/system/site-information) to configure the default front page path. You can also edit you site name and add a slogan to make the site your own.