About freakin' time too!
Yes I've finally joined the modern world and got myself a blog. It's been on my 'to do' list for over two years so apologies for the delay. Free coffee or tea will be provided from the refreshment trolley.
Rather than just bolt on another script I've replaced the humble static HTML pages with a content management system. Of course there was only one choice of CMS for me and I've been waiting for Drupal 4.7 to finally come out of beta/release candidate status before deploying it for real.
I've been running beta version on my test server successfully but not all the modules I wanted to use had been updated to the new form API. For those interested in how the site is pieced together I've put together a little recipe. I made a few notes as I was doing it but it's easy to see why a lot people are put of Drupal when you have to do a lot of tweaking to get it to do what you want. A proper install script is in development and I believe that will make a huge difference to the success of Drupal.
Well this is kind of weird, I feel like I should end on something special for my maiden post. How about one of my favourite lyrics?
It's always funny until someone gets hurt...
And then it's just hilarious!
Mike Patton, 'Ricochet'
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Hey Will,
Like the big shiny buttons (Web 2.0 hehe)! But shocked you have used an off-the-shelf CMS. Come on, be a man and get down and dirty with the PHP! :-)
Chris
Yeah, guilty as charged
I'm afraid if I wrote one from scratch it would:
I plan to get more involved with Drupal as a contributor in the long run, particularly on the ecommerce side. The way I see it, Drupal is more of a framework than a CMS. Excluding enterprise apps, is there anything web based that you couldn't do in Drupal?
P.S. Yeah I'm a sucker for big shinny things ;) In case you're wondering, the cog is a nod to the w3Factory design.