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Website Redesign

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It has been a while (almost a year) since I posted about the state of my website. I greatly enjoy my attempts to clean it up and make it work the way I want it to. Over the past couple of weeks, I gave the site a pretty major overhaul visually. If you are running your own Drupal installation or are just curious what I've done to the site you might find this a handy guide.

Progress on the Site

I've been working on my site here and there during my free time. One nice thing that I've found with Drupal (Currently in version 6.9 - I've been very good about keeping up with my security updates) is that it is fairly easy to add things to the system, play around with them and then uninstall if you don't like it. I've given a few different modules a try over the past few months and now have moved things to the front where they can be easily seen. I will admit though that site maintenance is a whole lot easier when you only have one user to worry about.

Current Modules:

Upgrade to Drupal 6.3

Upgrade has been made to version 6.3.

This one wasn't very painful and the site was down for less than an hour. While I was in there, I added a photo gallery module as well. I'm going to need to build out the menu for it still, but if you want to take a quick look, you can find it by clicking here.

Cinco de Mayo Upgrade

Yesterday, I upgraded the site.

I moved from a Drupal 6.1 to 6.2 installation. Ultimately, it wasn't a major release but