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I’m so excited- our first site using Drupal is ready to be reviewed. We don’t have the domain name yet, which is why it lives under a different one.
Take a sneak peek and compare the old site and the new site side by side, while the test link is still alive.

I’m working with Drupal right now. I am taking Drupal 6.1 out for a test drive. So far it looks pretty good. Skinning 6.1 looks like it will be easier than 5.5.
Since Monday, I have had a crash course in:

PHP5 and why it’s better than PHP4;

Reading PHP and knowing what the functions do

mySQL5 and [...]

The recent update to Gardiner’s web site was mostly pain-free. Along with the update I attempted to use the IE conditional comments I’ve observed so many other sites use. Inside it contains a IE6 style sheet, which switches out the use of .png files for .gifs and takes out the negative margins on the top [...]

Deciding among the myriad of options available is no easy task. The choices range from premium paid CMS packages to open source, from blog-flavored to roll-your-own. I looked at Content Management Systems recommended by developers, designers, do-it-yourself hobbyists, and non-profit professionals. What follows is a not entirely coherent record of my thoughts and the testing [...]

A discovered caveat to laissez-faire style managing: our white board projects have fallen by the wayside. Freedom can be a hard responsibility. In an effort to balance the site updates with projects that can have a real impact on what we do every day, I am attempting an experiment.
As of Wednesday, January 2, my days [...]