Well, I've finally got drupal up and running (again, second time is a charm, correct?). It's kind of bare bones at the moment - no portfolio, not much content, and the design is kind of funky. However, the goal is to create my dossier/portfolio using drupal. I'll be able to control access and I think (hope!) that I'll be able to create a structure that is logical and easy for the review committee to use.

a little progress with drupal. I can't say that I've actually been working on this for 2 weeks. More like 2 days max total.Anyhow, I loaded the drupal zen template which is designed to be css templating. Whew! I might actually be able to have a site that is not a cookie cutter. Funny, I've stumbled across a few drupal sites that are so obviously running it (garland template anyone?)Secondly, I had a heck of time getting the tinymce (wsywyg editor) for posting, etc. loaded.D'oh! Should have read the install.txt instead of the forums.

...just my opinion and as a cms, drupal looks good, especially structurally, but overall, it seems completely backwards in terms of design sensibility. aargh.If I can make it look decent (i.e., not cookiecutter) I'll post a screenshot. Honestly, Drupal is a neat product, if I only I can get it work properly (deja vu! from 2003).

So, I'm still investigating a CMS (Content Management System) for the libraries web editors. A CMS is just a easy way to get content onto the web, without having to do much in the way of design. Blogger in some senses is a very primitive (primitive because it is limited in what it can do) CMS. Unfortunately, my quick and informal survey of web editors has yielded, ummm... not much. A lot of them still seem to use Dreamweaver and templates (our current setup), a few Contribute, and then every thing in the middle, including (shudder) FrontPage.As for myself, I am in a similiar situation.

Some people may know (or not know) that I've had a website since early 1996. My first website was a static html with light beige background and dark purple text. It was a 2 column page with a caption at the top. On the left was an image of one of my paintings; on the right was a 'welcome to my website...' kind of thing. The caption was just text (robinart) and at the bottom of the website was a little ani cat that ran from one side to another.