Verbosity 2.0 ~ Talking about life on Drupal

Really enjoying the "content soup" analogy. Impressed with the built-in support of URL Aliasing but was having trouble figuring out to do with the raw "nodes" that each content piece generates. Then I learned how Drupal Pathauto takes care of the URL customization. Modules are as easy to install as themes, go figure. I used to have nightmares about this process with Plone and Xoops... I'm sure they are no harder to use but as a new user this was all too easy with Drupal.

The theming engine is remarkably simple and supports a few different formats for the templates. I've installed a few stock templates but I'm looking for some better code. The current theme I am using has an HTML table for block level content, not really something appropriate for a true Web 2.0 site. It will be easy to roll my own templates though so I'm satisfied with how things are going.

Well folks, it's that time of year again when I make a blog posting about how I'm going into business on my own.

This year it's totally happening! At least that's the plan so far. I'm trying to refocus my energies on online marketing with a bit of writing and photography. That rounds out my offerings to be a "full service" web shop to businesses large and small.

From time to time I have taken on technical documentation projects and enjoyed one particular stint where I had to use a Wiki to do so. It has been far too long. Recently I installed a wiki on my server as a makeshift document sharing system.

The setup was relatively easy, I checked out a few websites, figured out the easiest, most debian of ways to do this. Kwiki was my answer. I checked the features: minimal. This is software zen. Add what you want, or take nothing more.

What's less is more