And so it begins...

I’ve been wondering for literally months how to set up this site. I almost went with a custom coded solution but Drupal’s logging and modular ‘plug-in features’ were ultimately too alluring. The critical question, as always - what would be the best layout? Which modules to use to categorise and display my projects? How do I make all these features work together?

I finally got around to setting up the site properly. My year-old half-baked installation of Drupal should now be fixed (I’ve reinstalled it several times playing with various configurations) and set up to do everything I want it to. I had to use a few modules, several of which had to be ported to PostgreSQL, but overall the installation process was quite easy. The categories, blocks and links are all set up and all that remains is to create a theme. Then the content can be rolled in…