Oliver Davies

Whilst doing some additional work on the Costley & Partners website, I created an advanced 'Contact Us' form using the Webform module. However, as well as the additional fields that I'd created, I also wanted a drop-down menu where the user could choose either 'General enquiry' or 'Website feedback', and for the message to be send to the associated email address - the same as the feature is available in Drupal's core Contact module.

Last night, I decided to update my live Drupal 6 multi-site setup. My development version is continually running the latest version of the Drupal core code and modules, but my live setup was slightly outdated. I'd also re-organised my 'sites' structure slightly on my development setup, and found several modules on the live server that I wasn't using. So, I decided to remove everything from the live server and replace it with the shiny up-to-date version from my development setup.

I'll be one of the first to admit that I don't always 100% backup my code and databases everytime I do an update in development, but seeing I was altering live sites (including sites that I'd built for friends as personal projects) I opened Terminal and created a ZIP archive of my entire setup (which took a while) and also logged into phpMyAdmin and exported a copy of my databases. I placed these in a folder called 'Backups' on my hard drive and renamed both files to yesterday's date.

I was recently doing some more development work on a website that I created for Costley & Partners - a solicitors firm based in Caerphilly, South Wales.

Whilst developing this, and other Drupal websites for clients, I decided that I wanted to categorise content using the taxonomy system. However, I wasn't happy with the way that Drupal displayed the terms lists by default, and I started comparing this to other websites that I look at.