I've been Drupaltized!

[errantember]

After several days of tweakage, I've finally managed to get Drupal 6 installed on the RadioMac. What is Drupal, you ask? It's a very powerful website system, and my ticket to renewed relevance on the Web. I was actually a webmaster for my department back when I co-oped in college, but "web high tech" in those days consisted of hand-edited static HTML and CGI scripts for live content.

It would seem, in the past ten years, that things have *changed*.

I'm operating on very incomplete information, but Drupal seems to have the best balance of "I want to have websites done tomorrow" and "I want to do anything with my website without having to learn PHP" and *even* "I want to customize with PHP manually" that I've seen. It's also open-source, well supported, and come pre-installed on many hosting services.

Comments

[errantember.livejournal.com]

What deployment technology do you generally use now?

[worldmegan.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if that phrase turns me on or kills me with cute, but it does something. Deployment technology!

WordPress is all I use at the moment -- been using it for a long time and have grown rather fond of it over the years. But I know it's not the best solution for all projects.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

I just meant "how you generally create websites for yourself and your clients?" Drupal seems to be the short path for me. After working hard to install Drupal 6.x, I found out that a lot of critical modules I'll probably use aren't working for 6.x yet, so I went back and co-installed 5.x. It seems mostly to be working, though there are a few tweaks the need to be done, and I haven't made any actual *content* yet, just set up a development platform at home.

Thank God I have 10.5 and Time Machine now. Backups have suddenly become much more important!