I have cre­ated a Drupal 6 test site on my server. This test site is to be used to try out new mod­ules that I have dis­cov­ered and to pro­vide a demo site for anony­mous users to tin­ker in.

The test site can be accessed here or through my port­fo­lio.

More mod­ules and info to come.

Also look for­ward to a Drupal 7 test site.

As a way of show­ing my sup­port for all of the insight­ful and use­ful infor­ma­tion that Smashing Magazine pro­vides, I have decided to update my Wordpress theme and use one of their freely-distributed designs. The theme of choice is Glassical, a vibrant theme that reminds me a lot of Twitter. Of course, I did make mod­i­fi­ca­tions to the Glassical theme such as CSS changes, image mod­i­fi­ca­tions, and tem­plate cus­tomiza­tion. More infor­ma­tion about the Glassical theme (and many oth­ers) at Smashing Magazine.

The fol­low­ing is a list of upcom­ing top­ics that I am work­ing on, which is requir­ing some research on my part.

Possible top­ics include:

• Blender 3D 2.5 UI changes vs pre­vi­ous ver­sions of Blender such as 2.49
• Wordpress Theme cre­ation case study
• Comparison of open-source Content Management Systems: Drupal, Wordpress (with plu­g­ins), Alfresco, Frog CMS, Joomla, Silverstripe, Concrete5

So far, I’ve cre­ated some con­tent for the Blender 2.5 Vs. Blender 2.49, and have the above CMSs installed and run­ning. The Wordpress theme is a topic that I’ve been going back and forth on. I thor­oughly enjoy the themes that Smashing Magazine releases. But if time per­mits, I’d like to cre­ate my own.

So, I updated the theme for the site once again. I’m pleased with it so far and plan to stick with it for quite some time. Additional news include that I am set­ting up a work­ing imple­men­ta­tion of the imagecache+views+taxonomy within my Drupal instal­la­tion. This can be used for both test­ing out how the photo gallery imple­men­ta­tion works in addi­tion to stor­ing per­sonal files.

I have decided to use Wordpress for blog­ging instead of Drupal’s built-in blog mech­a­nism. Wordpress gives more flexibility.