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

Re: drupal

[errantember.livejournal.com]

What kind of work do you do for/with them?

Re: drupal / gaiahost

[hobgadling.livejournal.com]

everything! we're a small worker-owned coop, so we share pretty much all the duties of running the business. I spend most of my time on customer support, (new account setups, account changes, email setup) and back-end development - automation and control panel improvements, software upgrades, etc.

Re: drupal / gaiahost

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'd like to hear more about how you operate, both because I'm looking for work, but also because I really like the idea of co-ops and a programming co-op is one I haven't seen in action yet.

Re: drupal / gaiahost

[hobgadling.livejournal.com]

cool. check out the tech coop mailing list: http://npogroups.org/lists/info/tech-coop
or we could get together to chat sometime if you want.