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Goodbye uSite, Hello Drupal!

Kurt on Sun, 2006-10-15 17:53.
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I am decommissioning my CMS system uSite. It was supposed to be a small CMS; it started out as less than 400 lines of Perl code. Eventually, it grew and I grew tired of adding new functionality, so I am migrating to Drupal.

Why Drupal? I have a client who is planning to migrate to Drupal, and my shared hosting provider does not support Plone because Zope’s object database requires too much resources.

I had migrated my wife’s site to Drupal a couple weeks ago and it took only two hours, but she only has a few pages.

Next, I used Drupal to host my coach’s triathlon team: Dyna Racing.

So, I’m going to give this a try again on my personal website. Then, UMLETA is next!


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Making progress...

Submitted by Kurt on Tue, 2006-10-17 22:38.

I’ve started with textile, img_assist as basic modules for input formats.

I’ve installed theme_editor and used the wireframe theme as a starting point. I created a softlink named "themes/editing" into "../files/theme_editor/wireframe_customized" so I can see my changes in real-time.

So far, all content submission forms seem to be pushed down below the "leftnav" div. Need to figure out how to fix that.

— Kurt

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Drupal conversion almost complete

Submitted by Kurt on Tue, 2006-10-17 22:39.

kurtstephens.com is now running on Drupal . I’ve almost got all my content converted over to Drupal.

I’m still having problems with the content div in the CSS with my mods to the wireframe theme.

At some point, I’d like to create a “Quote of the Day” module for Drupal similar to what I had in uSite.

— Kurt

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CSS .vs. tables

Submitted by Kurt on Tue, 2006-10-17 22:40.
I couldn’t get the pure CSS layout to work with out too much effort, so I just when back to using tables. Still need a “Quote of the Day” module. — Kurt
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