Drupal

Currently there are many projects that are on my plate. One is an online newsletter for a fashion company from Brooklyn, NY. The look and feel for this site has been designed by Krona Design. I am in the process of fleshing out the design comp to a test site that the designer and our customer and see, use and try the functionality. During this project large scale, pixel perfect layouts are expected, so we are using technology to replace the text with a font that isn't supported by every visitor's computer.

I spend a lot of time reading, listening, and consuming technology and technology news. Those that have met me will back up my claim that I am very, very enthusiastic about web stuff. I am also back in school trying to finish my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, so I have been getting even more knowledge crammed in my head. I am in a strange position since I attended college at the undergraduate in the mid-90's and right now. I have a few observations:

I am very excited to announce that I have a new online home located over at HeartyHandshake.Com. This is a new showcase site for my web design, development and implementation, more over the site is a Drupal 5.1 website with a custom created theme. That design was created for my by my very good friend Christian over at Krona Design, and I feel very lucky to have his creativity at work for my online brand.

Hey all, been a while life, school, work and wifey all taking time away from me typing

I am feeling that this poor blog is not getting the attention it deserves, so here I am back blogging at almost 10pm on a Thursday night. So what has me sitting here and blogging, well I just got home from a NJ Web Design Meetup and realized that I had alot to say ( ok so I never shutup) and I haven't been saying it.

3 weeks ago my friend and guinea-pig Jon came to me with complaints about his website being a little out of date. I immediately turned around and started the process of getting his site installed using Drupal so he could maintain it himself because I am busy with work and school, and he is more technical then your average user. I started his site migration from a stock static website with a wordpress blog to a new customized, dynamic Drupal site.

Ok the next step is to import the tables and all the guts of Drupal into your newly created database, for MySql 4.1 or higher (MAMP has MySQL5) you will need to import a file called database.4.1.mysql located in the /drupal-4.7.X/database as shown in the picture to the left. It is that simple and you are almost there with your very our sandbox for development. You will have to edit a file in the /{drupal}/sites/default/settings.php and change one line.

$db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;

Welcome back I am now going to talk about the way that MAMP handles serving up files through Apache2. By default you install MAMP into the Applications directory on Mac OSX in a folder and the default path to the folder that is being served by Apache is /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ .

A very useful way to setup a web development environment is an all-in-one solution that includes a web server, a database, server-side scripting support. I am running MacOSX and needed a solution like this and I have come across a great project called MAMP.I haven’t previously mentioned my environment for web design on my laptop but I have been happily using this all-in-one testing solution for all my web development.

So I have been learning all I can learn about the web design/development world, and I have a healthy appetite for technology, and I was totally intrigued by Drupal. So I diligently looked up a howTo online for Ubuntu and web server stuffs and came across The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake) and I was in my glory. I thought wow I have it all right here.