Drupal is a moving target.

That is kinda cool. The new stuff always blows me away.

The problem is never with upgrading core, it is in the modules. I just have to hope the modules I need will eventually be available. I always start out lean and mean, but the cool stuff seems to creep in. Still, that's fine if it is just me. If a feature goes away in the future, I will understand and forgive me.

It is different when I am setting it up for someone else. I do want to hand them something sexy, but at the very least I want it to be simple to use.

I think my latest project was the hardest thing I have done since I first started learning my way around CSS. I am still tweaking it a bit, but you can take a look if you like. It is for the Blue Ridge Women In Agriculture. No, that's not my design, I just plugged it into Drupal. I have converted designs into Drupal themes before, but never one that was so table intensive with graphics sliced to fit the cells. I basically had to take a screenshot and start from there. The lady who created the design is obviously quite talented and I hope the changes I made to make the design fit are not too offensive to her.

I made the site over from scratch at least three times. I did not have the guts to make the big changes until I had proven that there was no other way. Maybe next time I will know to do what I know has to be done. I can always add stuff later.

Not to build two new sites, a MySpace clone and a shopping cart. It will be refreshing to try something relatively easy.

I am also going to the dentist. Even geeks have to go in for maintenance once in a while.

I have been spending my day converting a design made by a local college student. It has been a very emotional experience. I spent the first hour randomly randomly throwing out curses because I was really unable to focus my anger well. I settled down a bit after that and focused my wrath on the local university. It is beyond all belief that a modern institution of higher learning would teach methods that do not scale in the real world.

I don't really have anything against tables if they can be made to work. What I am talking about here is a design so inflexible that if the content is too large you just need to change the content. Those kinds of tables.

The design itself is very nice. I do hope the designer does not think I have done it an injustice when I somehow plug it into Drupal.

It's a lazy Sunday video linky. The Poetic Prophet delivers the gospel of web design in a way I have not seen before. Everyone should commit it to memory.

This also marks the date and time.

This is a test of the hotlinking system, or lack thereof. The regular blog will continue soon. Meanwhile, I give you the Blue Toy:

That is all.

I always enjoy whatever Joel Spolsky writes. Many of his posts deal with running a software business, and he offers lots neat insights. Recently he wrote about what he calls the mother of all flamewars that may be popping up on a web developer's forum near you. This would be interesting reading for anyone interested in understanding the problems with the new Internet Explorer 8 and Web standards. It is not so much a technical piece as an explanation of what is going wrong. I am pretty excited about the whole thing, I have not witnessed a good flamewar since people stopped caring so much about tables.

I am also watching Colorwar08 with interest in case it fans itself into something interesting. If you happen to be on Twitter and are looking for a strong, healthy color to support, you might consider following Team Scarlet. It will be the team to watch.