As you can doubtless tell, this site is a work in progress. Really little more than a place to put a few bookmarks and for us to blog.
Well, it would be if we had time to blog.
ES Advances
– Simple, intuitive and compelling web sites
Urban Renewal, Drupal Style
Old Al’s Cards was my first full-blown Drupal project. I had fiddled with Drupal in the past, as far back as early 4.x versions, but had always moved on fairly quickly in search of a simpler solution.
Old Al’s Cards is the first site where I made an attempt to harness some of the power that the Drupal framework offers to a web guy with less than stellar PHP skills. I wanted custom content types, a slew of fields, some nice AJAXY Javascript for user interaction, social network integration and intuitive asset (image) management with dynamically generated versions (at least four) of selected images.
For the most part I accomplished these goals and learned how Drupal works. At least enough to be dangerous and the site does what it needs to. However, my inexperience has taken it’s toll and the overhead on the site is quite frightening considering how little it is used. I made a lot of mistakes and, unfortunately, looked over the Drupal best practices a little late in the process.
So, I’m going to do it again.
Who knows, this stuff might actually help someone some day.