Happy Birthday to My Blog

I was looking back at my Blog the other day and realized that I first posted to this Blog 3 years ago today. What started out as a Wordpress blog turned into a Drupal Blog and it keeps changing a little bit all the time. As I learn more about CSS or Photoshop I keep making changes trying to improve my site. I don't use it as often as I intended but I am working on that. I do tend to use it a lot when I am training for the 3 Day but I need to expand on that. I plan to keep using and developing the site for some time to come.

 

Drupal 7 Coming Soon

Drupal 7, the newest version of Drupal is coming soon. It is scheduled to release on January 5th. I have worked with the release candidates and beta releases a little bit and I am really looking forward to it's release and the associated module updates. There are some very cool enhancements in the new version I want to use. The new admin overlay and admin theme are very nice. It also seems a little snappier to me so far. If you are interested in more information you can follow the link on my page to the Drupal 7 start resources.

 

Finally Free Time to Work on Sites

I am so glad to be done with work for today so that I can have a long weekend to just spend with my family and not worry about work. I have some other things I would like to work on that I have been neglecting as well that I hope to get to this weekend. I have not spent any time working on my website or any other websites lately and I need to change that. Working on the couple websites that I do work on is something I enjoy. It can be frustrating at times because i really don't have the background for the artistic side of web design. I do enjoy spending time figuring out the CSS to make a site look like I want it to. I have to get better at being more creative in how I lay things out. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have updates made to my site as well as the Drupal414 site. That is the site that belongs to the Milwaukee Drupal Users Group and I have started attending those meetings and am starting to get involved in that group. It's fun to get together with some others that are working with the same platform and hear about some of the challenges that others are facing. Most of my issues are pretty minor. Can't wait for January for the release of Drupal 7. I really like some of the changes in the platform. I really can't wait until the modules I need are updated so I can convert my site to Drupal 7.