Drupal website overhaul

Summer holidays is an excellent time to do some major work on my pet project. Sitting in the shade with cool drinks at hand I started to read a book on Drupal I came across some time ago. This book, Leveraging Drupal: Getting your site done right, turned out to be amazing. It not only explained best practices on how to configure your Drupal site, but, more importantly, how to setup a development environment. Been there, done that and already suffered from bad decisions such as not putting everything in SVN. It's not feasible right now to do it 'right' with a flaky wireless internet connection, but I'll definitely look into it as soon as I get home.

That didn't stop me from working on a new theme, which is almost done by now. So with a few days to spare, I decided to look into some other issues, such as the best way to provide private content on the website.

The book talked about Organic Groups, which I've come across before, so I decided that this was the right time to look into it. After all, I do want to create more social networking functionality on the website and be able to hand off some of the content management work to others. I'll write up my experiences in subsequent posts. They won't be literary pieces of prose, merely my sentiments as I try to achieve my goals.