www.lastdaysjournal.com - world's first blogging/social-networking site for survivors of the zombie apocalypse

so i posted this once before - looooooong before the site was actually complete, but now it is complete: lastdaysjournal.com, the world's first blogging/social-networking site for survivors of the zombie apocalypse.

a little about lastdaysjournal: first of all, i definitely didn't know what the hell i was doing when i put this together. i am most definitely NOT a web developer, but drupal was so easy to install and start using that it made the initial site possible. but there were some pages that i wanted to attach to the drupal part and use the database that drupal was populating to organize the users into a kind of geographical format to supplement the default reverse chronology that drupal automatically sets up.

i spent about 6 weeks in beta trying to figure out how to do that - taking php/mysql online lessons on lynda.com before i gave up and just got a friend of a friend (bob wold of ethitech llc in pheonix, az - *plug-plug*) to whip up some php that did now populates the 'recent users', 'random media', 'biggest contributors', etc. lists on the static map style pages. bob whipped that stuff together in barely more than a single night, but the real work-horse here is drupal. allowing users to create a profile, start and run their own blogs, upload images, upload sound clips, etc. etc.

the MAIN LINK is part of the whole map navigation stuff i refere to above, but HERE is where the drupal portion begins, and HERE is an explanation about the site itself.

check it out and register a "survivor" - it's loads of fun.

cheers,
=ck