I have one chance to make a first impression...
You only get to be new once.
I found out about this site through the Drupal community, as an example of a site that upgraded from VBulletin to Drupal.
I am currently consulting on moving a VBulletin site with 15000 members to Drupal. And expanding the member base from mainly NYC to worldwide. I'll keep you posted.
I've been coding web sites for over ten years, I remember when we had to sniff out Netscape 2 if we wanted to use the Jscript features of IE3. Lately I develop a lot of Drupal sites and other php/mysql but occasionally I stray into Lassoscript territory.
I spent ten years with GeoCities Free Hosting (when I joined, you actually went to a page with a subdivision laid out and you picked a virtual homestead by it's street address - I picked http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6131/ which still works as well as the much later buyout Yahoo-added address http://www.geocities.com/rgoya/
These days I have my own domain I'm building in Drupal - netsperience 2.x with an improved portfolio created with Gallery2. I'm a sucker for free widgets I have a Meebo Me IM widget, a Jango JukeBox, and a Pond5 Flash array. So far.
I've developed (I think) some interesting and unusual JavaScript apps and I posted a few in the projects section under the name "netsperience"
Well, I know this is a lot more long-winded than a lot of the other introductions, but I've been around for a while and this is only the beginning - and it's my only chance to be the "new kid."
(Oh yeah, Megan, this is one cool site!)
Megan posted this at 13:35 — 6th June 2008.
She has: 11,282 posts
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I'm glad you're enjoying it! I started out on Geocities too. One of my first sites was at http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Bench/7083/ . I also had one on tripod but I can't remember what the URL was now.... oh, wait, there's a forum thread about that.
Megan
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decibel.places posted this at 02:59 — 15th June 2008.
He has: 1,497 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
oh yeah, remember xoom? (I don't mean the payment gateway that currently has that domain) It was like tripod.
I posted a lot of images there to get around the GeoCities bandwidth limits (way before PhotoBucket etc.)
Well, I didn't check on stuff for a few months and when I logged in, I found out that xoom had closed all accounts and my files were gone.
The trials and tribulations of free hosting...
silverwing posted this at 18:39 — 19th June 2008.
He has: 79 posts
Joined: May 2008
You're stalking me, aren't you?
~silverwing
ms2134 posted this at 22:45 — 19th June 2008.
He has: 393 posts
Joined: May 2008
I have been trying to get to grips with drupal but i am finding it hard. I am sure that i will get used to it sooner or later...
Damm module installs. LOL
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decibel.places posted this at 22:59 — 19th June 2008.
He has: 1,497 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
modules are your best friends - but I always install way too many and some are redundant
- then I prune - also developing both v 5.7 and 6.2 sites, which each come with complete set of different version modules - and some modules not yet in v6 like Ubercart and Workflow-ng --
silverwing posted this at 01:52 — 20th June 2008.
He has: 79 posts
Joined: May 2008
One of my biggest gripes with Drupal is module overload. Multiple modules to do one thing. Sometimes you just want to install podcast.module but you end up installing four modules to get it to podcast.
(I know, it's the Drupal way, but still...)
~silverwing
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decibel.places posted this at 03:15 — 20th June 2008.
He has: 1,497 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
well, it's like standing on the shoulders of giants
also on a more technical note, it is done that way so each module does not have to handle everything, some tasks can be handled by modules that already exist and when it works properly reduces code and db loads
And the Drupal community is awesome
I moved 4 dev sites from StartLogic (gimme some garlic!) to Bluehost which has been mostly ok - that's all I expect
the 3 Drupal 6.2 sites worked fine but the 5.7 one (with Ubercart and quite a few modules, Workflow-ng eg) caused a memory error.
I changed the memory setting in php.ini but that didn't work.
Bluehost support was useless, tried to get me to hire a "developer" and could not grok that the exact same code works over at SrartLogic (when it works) and they finally told me go look for help on Drupal (even though I told them it was their problem not Drupal's)
Within 15 minutes of posting to the Drupal forum someone suggested I use phpinfo() files to check the actual memory settings. Sure enough, the main directory had 50MB of memory but the directory with the problem site was still reading 32MB. Added its own php.ini file and the site is up.
Drupal rocks.
silverwing posted this at 03:24 — 20th June 2008.
He has: 79 posts
Joined: May 2008
ah, web hosting. You're damned if you do, and damned if you do.
(I'm vowing to never host with any company that uses stock images of people wearing phone headsets.)
~silverwing - still, I'd love a plug-n-play podcast.module or gallery.module or just a forum with pretty buttons...
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decibel.places posted this at 03:39 — 20th June 2008.
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Joined: Jun 2008
whaddabout making your own forum theme - I know there's lots of threads about that over at Drupal
some images some css...
It's a canvas, not one of those books you color with a wet paintbrush...
There is Gallery2 support (I admit I have not quite got it hooked up yet)
I use the native Image Gallery just to show off Drupal logos (got the full set of Drupalcon Szeged logos there - hooray for chilis!) I collect or a poor man's version of my Gallery2 Portfolio (I just link to my Gallery2 app from Drupal, the hell with embedding it!)
silverwing posted this at 03:46 — 20th June 2008.
He has: 79 posts
Joined: May 2008
I'm working at hacking the advanced_forum module. What I really want is the "Mark All Read" function that module has. No real rush, though.
And I don't want Gallery2. (That would definitely be bloatware for me. And I much prefer the simplicity of zenphoto. I'm testing the image gallery on my localhost setup - I just have to remember what modules I used to set it up with.
~silverwing - who does believe the drupal forums are extremely dated. Useful, but dated.
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Michelle posted this at 21:51 — 22nd June 2008.
She has: 70 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
That bit is fairly standalone and actually used to be a submodule. Shouldn't be too hard to pull that into your site module if that's all you want.
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silverwing posted this at 23:09 — 22nd June 2008.
He has: 79 posts
Joined: May 2008
That bit is fairly standalone and actually used to be a submodule. Shouldn't be too hard to pull that into your site module if that's all you want.
Michelle
Geez, I feel guilty about writing that bit now... (And Michelle, you one of my faves at d.o. If they had a buddylist there, you'd be on mine!)
I have an older copy of advanced forum that I'll take a look at. (I'm fluctuating between advanced_forum or the core templating ability in Drupal 6 - if I ever bring my sites up to it...
~silvewing
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