Moved to WordPress!
Fri, August 7th 2009 at 11:54pm
If you have been reading recently then you know that I have been having a few problems configuring Drupal 6 after upgrading from version 4.7. After looking through many configuration settings, and all the modules needed to do what I wanted I could see that Drupal was too much for what I needed.
more »
Comments Off
Upgraded to Drupal 6.0
Sun, August 2nd 2009 at 08:57pm
As you can see from the default theme I decided to upgrade the site to Drupal 6.0. I know that I have said in the past to never develop on your main site, but I thought what the hell. 
It’s not like this is a mission critical site or anything.
Anyway, I got a few database warnings when upgrading and the site is acting a little funky. I just cleared the site cache information and it seems to be working a little better. So hopefully that was it.
However I am considering clearing out all the info in the database and starting from scratch. I have over 1000 users and when I was looking at them 90% are spam users who must have got in before I disabled user accounts.
I will continue to post as I go so we can experience it together.
Comments Off
Drupal or SquareSpace
Thu, June 18th 2009 at 10:08pm
As you have probably noticed I have been more active in the past week on the site. Maybe it’s the sunny weather?, maybe it’s the fact I have stopped playing WoW every night? Who knows. But either way I am working on the site again and after coming back after an extended time this older version of Drupal seems inadequate. It’s time again to upgrade, but to what. There are a few new options around so I have been looking into a couple of them.
Revision3 and Twit.tv are two of my favorite sites to visit, and as any fan of those site will know they bombard you with SquareSpace ads. So know that I am looking into options I decided the give them a look first. After signing up for their free trial I was quite impressed with the WYSIWYG editing features. I quickly had a decent looking blog site up and running in a few hours.
The thing I like the most is just that they take care of all the little things for you, like layout CSS, blockquote formatting, and story entry. These little details always seem to end up taking the most time.
The post entry system is also nice.
Comments Off
Drupal 5.0 Announced
Sat, September 2nd 2006 at 03:40pm
Well just as I finally upgrade to Drupal 4.73 Dries goes and does a Code Freeze for Drupal 5.0. There quite a few major changes going into the next release of Drupal, hence the new major version number. So I am going to briefly go over some of the things I think are really cool, and how they improve the system.
When browsing over the change log a few changes jumped out at me immediately. Admin page retool, web installer, JQuery, block system, PHP Template, and removal of Drupal.css all are significant changes.
Comments Off
Drupal 4.7 Overview and Review
Sat, August 26th 2006 at 08:14pm
As is customary here at cmx.net with every major overhaul I start with a quick overview and review of the CMS I am using to run the site. Actually cmx.net skipped version 4.6 and went straight to 4.7 so there are a few things that I consider new and cool that are actually from the previous release. In any case it will not hurt to go over some of the main features of the new releases from 4.5.
Unfortunately some of the changes to the site are so fundamental that I have decided to start fresh with 4.7.3. This means that all the previous content is gone (which is no real big loss), but I also lost the user accounts which I am more annoyed about. I apologize to the users that already had accounts created, and hope that you will consider signing up again, and posting comments.
Comments Off
Comments
Sun, July 8th 2007 at 11:47pm
Today I was going to re-enable comments on the site. It’s not like this is a heavy traffic site or anything, but I did always enjoy getting feedback from the people who visit the site.
But that was before I looked at my user list. My user list is packed with obvious bot names. And it seems like some of the users have visited a couple of times recently. So I know that if I enable comments again I will just be flooded with comment spam.
Seems like a new version of Drupal is coming out soon, so maybe I will upgrade to that and try some of the anti spam modules out there. Probably just one of those anti-bot images when user register will work out.
Another option would be to start a forum up again, but sometimes I find it depressing when I only get 1 post a week and it’s mine.
So I will see what happens.