My new blog

Submitted by timmillwood on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 11:25

As you can see my blog looks a little different than normal. In fact it's very different than normal.

My old blog was running an out dated version of Drupal with many out dated modules. It also had a dodgy database where I had enabled and disabled modules without uninstalling them properly. This was causing 5 or 6 PHP errors on every page load. So I set to correct this and transfered all my blog posts to a new installation of Drupal using FeedAPI.

This new version of my blog may look a little ugly at the moment, but it is all up to date, with no errors. It is only using 7 contributed modules, which are Adsense, CCK, CVS Deply, Disqus, Pathauto, Token and Google Analytics.

The new theme I have called 'Five' and plan to contribute on Drupal.org. It is no where near finished, but is valid HTML5. I hope to first release 'Five' as a very clean HTML5 theme, and then another theme as a sub theme to 'five' which I will use for this blog.

Another new thing about this blog is that it's hosted on a server from VPS.NET using a Turnkey Linux LAMP image. In previous post I have discussed VPS.NET and I have even created a VPS.NET Drupal module that uses their API to manage your server.