So.. ive been off making websites for sometime.. mebbe 15 yrs or so due to family commitments etc.. and the highest ever skill's I had was with phpnuke and a big contributer at the time to nukecops with my baby nuke100.com which inevetibly was hacked over and over because I was no good at protectin my lil self against mysql injections.. so alas I became deflated and sacked the whole thing and started to focus more on my proper job with the local council.. hmm.. Im still there too :)
Im now 40 yrs of age and was inspired recently by my 5yr old son whilst me and him stood in the queue at the local shop.. who whilst telling me about a dream he had the night before..
Daniel: Daddy... I had a dream last night..
me: Did you Dan? what was it about?
Daniel: Well.. it was more like a nightmare.. It had aliens in it!
me: Oh ek.. well.. what colour were these aliens Daniel?
to which Daniels face changed into that look of "you nutter"... "Daddy.. all aliens are green.. why did you even ask?"
at which point me and the shopkeeper simply looked at each other in bemusement :D
but I thought a couple of minutes after his story.. what a name for a website!
and so allaliensaregreen.com was born..
dunno what im going to do with it yet .. im thinkin my passion for the stars and love of space and constantly watchin Nat Geo.. it all seems to fall into place.. a simple webby about the stars for kids..
So i've uploaded Drupal (again) after messing with WP and Joomla for the last 5/6 weeks, and its deffo turning out to be the best choice I could have made.. steep learning curve or not.. I love a challenge.... and my webby has now been up for a week - totally production state - and its a complete mess but I'm learning :D
The thing is.. the more I stick with Drupal the more it falls into place.. I played with it about 3 yrs ago.. got lost.. came back to it.. got lost again.. Ive been toyin all the time with Joomla and wp.. bugger that.. I think the penny has finally dropped!
And so to my point.. Ive just watched Dmitri Gaskin's talk on Growing up in the Drupal community-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMJCOViG0jE&feature=plcp
The Drupal Song! http://youtu.be/56roq0S1Qbg
(sidenote... (whilst searching for drupal i also found a ton of other vids on the Next Day Video channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/NextDayVideo))
Well done that man.. Dmitri you have just inspired me even more to kick some damn webby butt and get codin :D Ty Sir!
and finally to all a you guys and gals out there.. so much help available.. ty.. mebbe one day I'll know enough to chip in but for now a few starter links which have helped me and I hope will help others..
And a massive ty to others who I have found in this last week with vids etc..
Namely Node One.. http://nodeone.se/en/some-standard-modules
CMSQuicstart.. http://www.cmsquickstart.com/blog/pages-menus-and-blocks-drupal7
Jake and Sebastian for Omega which I am going to use for my project :) http://drupal.org/project/omega
ps.. real neme Shane.. but GreenAlien sounds so much better :D Helloooo :D
