Current Projects
This week has been a week of mostly Drupal work and both the sites I have been working on this week are coming together very nicely. Unfortunately they are not ready for release yet so I can’t let you have a preview but hopefully they should be ready before too long.
There are lots of exciting WordPress projects coming along which I am looking forward to getting into. So look for news of those here soon. I also had a meeting yesterday about transferring a history database solution that I wrote some years ago into a web-based system which I think will be very interesting for those wanting to know more about local history around the Uttlesford area. Again, more on that in due course.
(And the really good news, the automatic updater for WordPress finally works on Firefox on the Mac! – yeah!).
Tips and Recommendations
My Drupal tip of the week: if you are using a wysiwyg editor to help create your Drupal pages and stories, while they save a lot of time, do check their resulting code as some of it can be very messy and leave you puzzling over why things look different to how you thought they were going to look. Drupal has many places and ways of doing things and you can spend a long time fiddling about with settings only to find it was just odd characters appearing in the code.
My WordPress tip of the week is already on the site and is all about how to set up your WordPress to use it more as a standard website that includes a blog rather than as just a blogging software. So look under the “Getting Organised” section for the WordPress Home Pages blog.
And speaking of getting organized, my website and book recommendations for this week are following this theme.
Awake is good: Jan Lundy is running a 30-day meditation challenge. No, she’s not meditating continuously for 30 days, but she is challenging those of us interested in meditation to see whether we can keep up our regular practice for 30 days and she is providing some lovely information and resources all with regards to meditation. Even after the 30 days are up I’m sure this is a resource I will turn to again and again. So I shall be so organized that I will have plenty of time to meditate!
Off for a cup of tea and to walk the pony now. Have a good week,
Rosemarie.
