I’ve been working on finishing up a personal drupal project at Poodle Breeder Source.com, and have been working with Drupal on this project. This will be one of many Drupal projects I’ve done over the past 6 months, and I really love the flexibility of Drupal, and the large amount of modules that are already up and running.
However, I’ve been Extremely Disappointed in the capabilities for e-commerce with the system. Continue reading ‘Drupal 5 & E-Commerce Setup Woes’
Well, as I get ready to head back home in the next few days hopefully, I’ve been looking over some things that will need to be done and trying to prioritize what I have left to do on a few projects, and how to tackle those when I get back to get back in the routine.
First, the most important item I have on the table is the completion of the Drupal project Poodle Breeder Source. It’s a great site, and almost ready to go, I just need to finalize the ecommerce installation again, and work on some of the copy for generic pages, along with touching up the admin panel that advertising/posting users will have the ability to access for usability purposes.
Second, I need to upgrade this site to the latest version of wordpress… should be easy money there.
Third, I need to complete the copy and such for the Himerus Inc. The layout is done, and except for a few issues in IE7 with the jQuery scrollbars, it really just needs the appropriate information incorporated into the pages that have been created so far. This will be the first implementation of my own custom CMS that will greatly speed up putting out quality, easy to manage sites.
Fourth, It’ll be time to rework the Himpressive theme, and get that set up to work with Wordpress 2.3 and have it installed on the site. I’m really excited about that one, the way it’s going to be set up, It could definitely be a popular theme that gets used quite a bit, and will be my first release of a fully functional Wordpress theme. Included with that will be a few plugins that help some of the functionality that will be implied on the theme. There will be a very slick jQuery calendar that should be eaten up by the community even without using the theme.
So, putting it lightly, I have a lot of work to accomplish, and want to be able to get most of this lined out as quickly as possible once I get back home. Once I get in the swing of these projects, I will probably be able to start posting up some jQuery tutorials and different modifications to Drupal and Wordpress that I can’t live without.
Look for more to come soon!!
After doing a little more thinking on the theme I’m going to slap together, I realized that although I really like the K2 interface, it isn’t what I want to base the code on that I use for this theme… After running into lots of problems integrating some jQuery elements after using the K2 theme which is using the prototype library & scriptaculous.
Since I’m currently so busy with the 9-5, I’m going to send a couple of my personal projects to some worthy developer that I can hopefully build a relationship with, and get working on finishing up a project or two, and since one of the projects in question is the launching pad for several other sites of a very similar nature, I will be looking for a Drupal expert that can get several projects ready to launch after a design is applied.
I currently have the project posted at GetAFreelancer, and ScriptLance…
Just a quick link to a current project I’m working on… should be an artful execution of Drupal…
I will be following up more on Drupal in the near future once I’ve been able to use it and customize it on a couple of projects, but so far, this is by far the best, most extensible CMS I have ever found. With it’s huge commnuity developing major module functionality to further extend the functionality of Drupal, it is sure to be a project that can take a lead in PHP CMS development, and give us developers/designers a good product to work with, and allow us to concentrate on what we do best… something other than re-inventing the wheel…
I only recently built the current version of my web development company, well if you’d call recent about 6 months ago, so It’s well past time that I gave it an upgrade. I’ve found that I’m still quite pleased with the overall idea of the design and layout, however, the site was created as about 90% static content when it was put up. At the time, I had no real options I considered for a CMS, and had not yet ran across the delightfully written code of the Drupal open source package.
Continue reading ‘Upcoming project: Moving corporate site to Drupal.’
