The next big thing
Sometimes you work a project and you just KNOW there's no way to get all your big plans done. How you respond depend on if your an owner or just a participant.
Me, I've been working on some PHP and Drupal to the degree that all the posts on my MTClient support site have aged and fallen off the front page. Now, I have several good things installed and configured but one project must be put aside if I really intend to open a new site next month. See, Drupal has a module that lets you give registered users of your site their own blog, but the module was written by skilled programmers that don't blog.
I've worked out how to let folks specify a name for their blog other than "User's Blog." I think I've worked out how to let everyone specify their own stylesheets rather than just living with the themes the main site provides…but that's going to take a minute to implement.
So. For now, I've decided to settle on:
- I'll blog, of course
- Allowing registered users to submit posts folks can vote onto the front page
- Online "books" made from significant posts and series (which is cool because I can just attached the posts to a book rather than maintaining a separate page of links)
- Syndication of articles from other sites (I have some thoughts on sources, but I haven't even begin to firm up the list)
I've got the Racism and Reparations series nicely bound. I'll be working on binding the rest, and on a method of pagination rather than binding—the difference can be seen by comparing the Drupal books to the chapters posted on my Wordpress experiment.
