In June, I said I was “holding up” on moving to the new Drupal 7.0 because: a) Drupal 6 update method was broken and b) website maintenance was becoming expensive and cumbersome for Drupal 6. See blog post – http://www.comptoncoms.com/wordpress/2011/06/holding-at-drupal-6-20/ Truth is while I was waiting for 6 months – nothing happened. It seems that [...]
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Where is Drupal 7 design going?
Posted by David Compton on February 23rd, 2011
There are a lot of changes / improvements in Drupal 7 themes and already there are 110 available.
Tags: Welcome to the Drupal ‘Hotel California’
Posted by David Compton on July 21st, 2010
You can update Drupal 6 and the contributed modules, but you are never finished. Just like the song version by the Eagles, the next time you check status, there will be a version or contributed module that is already in need of an update. If the site uses a large number of contributed modules, the [...]
E-newsletter best practices – 2010
Posted by David Compton on April 8th, 2010
When I wrote my first article on e-newsletters in 2003, I had just completed two email newsletter projects that were as different as night and day. One was an online newsletter that indexed about a dozen articles each day and the other was a bi-weekly email newsletter that carried mainly product information. The technology in [...]
Evaluating WordPress & Drupal for Web sites.
Posted by David Compton on February 3rd, 2010
A practical look at two impressive Web systems for Content Management, Drupal and Wordpress and the strengths of each.
Forget Drupal Install Profiles for now – most do not work
Posted by David Compton on January 30th, 2010
Notes on trying to use Drupal 6 install profiles
Drupal 6 Distributions
Posted by David Compton on January 20th, 2010
A look at some shortcomings and renewed hope for Drupal 6 Distribution
Drupal 6 documentation is complex and confusing
Posted by David Compton on January 7th, 2010
Just completed a three month project working on a Drupal 6 Web site.
On a cloud with MobileMe
Posted by David Compton on July 13th, 2009
I just added the iPhone to my iMac. Since I raved about the iMac in an earlier post, you might expect some ranting on the iPhone from me. Well, This post is not about the iPhone. I am saving that for a later more detailed post on iPhone apps. This is about a service offered [...]
Changing my spots – iMac and Leopard OS X 1.5
Posted by David Compton on July 11th, 2008
I was not going to do IT. I was not going to brag about my new iMac. That is until Wednesday this week when Microsoft put me and thousands of other users of XP that have ZoneAlarm Security Suite out of action with their weekly update. Read all about it in Information Week. I lost [...]
