Oliver Davies

Only 8 days since my previous thank you, I am absolutely thrilled to announce that the total number of visits to the site has almost doubled from 574 to 1,026 since the 19th March.

So, I think that another round of thanks are in order to all readers, subscribers to the RSS feed, commenters, followers on Twitter, and fans on Facebook...

Thank you, and come back again soon!

I'm pleased to announce that my Blog posts are now being imported into the Drupal.org/Drupal Planet aggregator! http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/664

Recent work means that I'm a bit later posting this than I originally intended...

I recently decided that I wanted to have a block displayed in a sidebar on my site containing icons and links to my social media profiles - Twitter, Facebook etc. I tried the Follow module, but it lacked the option to add extra networks such my Drupal.org account, and my RSS feed. I started to create my own version, and then found this Blog post by Hank Palan.

I created a 'Social icon' content type with the body field removed, and with fields for a link and image - then downloaded the favicons from the appropriate websites to use.

I've done some re-structuring of the main navigation menu:

• The Projects and Testimonials pages have been moved to the Work section.
• The Contact page has now been divided into seperate Personal and Work forms.

I've recently added the Projects and Testimonials sections to the site, and updated the About Me page.

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version is continually running the latest version of the Drupal core code and modules, but my live setup was slightly outdated.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.

For those who aren't aware, you can subscribe to my Blog posts via the RSS feed. Updates are also posted on my Twitter and Facebook pages when new Blog posts are added.

Yes, there is still a LOT of work to do theming this site (it's currently just a slightly-modified Zen subtheme), but the basic development work is more-or-less done, and I think that I've gone long enough without a personal website!

As I continue to develop and build this website, I'll be adding Blog posts and tutorials of the technologies and techniques I've used, as well as reviews of contributed modules and other things that I've used.