Voltage blog entries tagged with: drupal

Well, the blog has a new look and is running on some new software. I switched to drupal for this and my photo galleries. I had been running the galleries on 4images (which I created an extension for to use the Google RSS Feed AJAX code to create a slideshow viewer) and my blog on MoveableType 3.2, but I wanted more features than 4images, and at some point I'd need to update the MT software. Drupal is great, flexible, content-management software, and it has a relatively easy to work with structure. I've already created my own custom module to list the galleries, and have been hacking away at the Brilliant Gallery module to customize how my pictures are actually shown. It also has user and access management, so I can now have some of the galleries public, and others only to registered users. Sorry for the inconvenience of having to register to my friends. If it helps, I'd recommend signing up for an OpenID login, a portable login identity which you can use at an increasing number of websites so you don't have to create a separate login for each one (and of course, this site takes OpenID). Please let me know if the layout looks strange, I don't get much chance to test on Windows. UPDATE: Now you can login using your facebook login.