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By JohnWoltman on
Hi everybody, I wanted to showcase my personal website/blog at http://www.johnwoltman.com/. It's a place for me to post my photos, thoughts, travels, etc. It used to run on e107, then I moved to TextPattern a couple years ago. Each of those systems was progressively better, but I heard about Drupal through a Google search, and found that it was this amazingly well-supported system. The amount of contributed modules is what drew to me Drupal, and I've finally got everything working the way I want.
I can post massive amounts of images with SWF Upload. I don't have to create my thumbnails by hand anymore (thanks ImageCache!) - I used to make my thumbnails and slideshows with a bash script + ImageMagick. So everything I do with my website is an actual *online* process instead of processing photos and formatting articles on my home computer. Big modules I use are Views (for the photography gallery and the "featured" article), Lightbox2 for my travel photo slideshows, CCK and friends for image/video handling, Profile for turning my user profile into a node, and GMap to provide a map of my travels.
I'm very pleased with Drupal and I think I'll stick with it for a long time (my personal site is where I experiment with new web technologies, so it's often subject to my whims). The only thing I was sad about is not Drupal's fault - I couldn't get the layout I wanted to work correctly with pure CSS (no tables) so I ended up using tables. I think I've figured out the correct way to do it, but I don't think I'll be changing it now that it works (and should validate as well).
Let me know what you think :)
Comments
Very nice!
I don't normally click on the "personal blog" sites in the showcase because, well, usually they aren't showcasing much. This one is very nice, though. And you've got some great photos on there, too.
Michelle
Thanks
Thank you. I forgot to add that as well as being my personal site, my login is also personalized for me. When I login and view the front page, I get a bunch of RSS feeds from my favorite news sites. http://www.johnwoltman.com/f/u3/My_login.jpg has a screen shot of this. I also use a custom Yubikey library written in PHP for authentication - unfortunately it isn't in module form (yet).