Drupal: The glory days

My web site was never so popular as it were when it were Drupal. Now I'm back to the glory days. Well, maybe. I lost a lot of prestige in the months that I quite maintaining my blog very well while I was attempting to build up Contentment. It also hurts that the paths I had have changed and broke and are incorrect. However, I now have better paths due to my friend, pathauto.

I've now finished importing all the content from my previous WordPress and Drupal sites. I did the blog posts by hand because many of them needed editting and I took it as an opportunity to remember the olden days. There's still more work to be done if I'm really going to get the archives correct since some links have changed and some of the text encoding is screwed up in a few places still, but it may just stand as is.

I've been thinking of bringing in my Blosxom posts as well and even thought of going back to the stuff I built in Everything and back in the static HTML days of yore, but if that happens it probably won't be this month. ;) I'm tired of imports, but I may end up doing it.

One of the coolest new custom features I built this time around was the Categories block to the side there. The most exciting aspect of that is how I order the categories so that both quantity and how recently the tag was used. I built a corresponding Popular Tags page describing how the process works containing a complete list and shows individual scores. It's not perfect, but it's relatively nice.

I still need to tweak the design more. Comments look terrible and I'm not very fond the sidebars. They should match the curviness of the banner. I also need to tweak margins because there's not enough whitespace. However, I wanted to launch as soon as possible because it's a drag having a sucky blog...at least for me.

Cheers.