Posted March 8th, 2008 by Some Random Nerd

OK, so the basics of Drupal 6 are up and running, and so far it's looking pretty good; all the stuff I am familiar with and liked from version 5, but with some neat additional features too…

So, so far so good! The next priority for me is to get the site looking a bit more interesting, so I'm going to start diving into the design side of things. I like the clean look, but would rather have something that looks a little less dull. Which should get interesting, as I'm breaking pretty much all the design rules- I don't really know what my audience is going to be, because I don't yet know what this site is going to be for (other than it's going to have a bit more personal stuff than my existing blog— which is probably the wrong way around to have things), whether I'm going to be creating all the content myself or have some help, or even whether it's going to have any sort of focus. But still, apparently it was John Lennon who said that Rock and Roll is all about figuring out what the rules are so that you can break them... Besides, I like doodling stuff in Photoshop.

I want somewhere that I can keep track of my photography experiences; over a year after getting a DSLR with my wife, I'm still loving that as a hobby. I want to keep going with my 'professional' blog, but I'd like to have somewhere that I can post some of the rougher ideas that I'd like to write about before I find the time to sit down and write a longhand post on the subject. I want to return to my History of Information Technology project, which has kind of slipped by the wayside. And I'd like to create a platform where I can rant about collect and post my thoughts on politics, religion and the meaning of life etc. etc. Which is quite a wide scope to give myself for a site design...

Still, it's no doubt going to be an evolving project as I find out what can or can't be done with Drupal, as well as a good reason to get more involved with learning more about PHP. So I figure as long as I bear in mind that it's going to constantly be a work in progress (or Perpetual Beta, as such projects are more fashionably called these days… or at least were a couple of months ago— I'm not sure what the post-web2.0 fashions are yet) I shouldn't hit any problems.