I don’t post as often as I like here at Drupal, but I have been using Drupal the past year for a personal family site. If you read the few posts that I have posted, you know I have a love/hate relationship with Drupal. I like the functionality, but I think sometimes Drupal is a little more difficult to deal with compared with other Web content management systems. Regardless of my opinions, I’m finding that I’m using and recommending Drupal more often than not.
I have a strong interest in Information Systems and have wanted to develop a site focused on CMS for some time now. I’m still working out the concept, but have decided to use Drupal. I decided that I also wanted to keep a blog about my experiences building the site with Drupal 4.7, from start to finish. The blog is not intended to be as much of an interest to developers as it is for system administrators and the average user.
For those interested, the blog is currently being hosted at a site my wife and I just started, called “Like that Idea” ( http://likethatidea.com/category/like-that-software/drupal/ ). Yes, the site is Wordpress, but it meets our needs. Once Drupal is installed at the new site ( cmsreport.com), I’ll also move the blog over there too. I should point out that while the link for cmsreport.com is currently parked at Dakota Hosting (a GoDaddy reseller) the shared hosting plans are not recommended for Drupal. The shared hosting plan lack the MySQL’s Lock Tables privileges needed for properly hosting Drupal. I’m will be using a virtual private (dedicated) servers to run Drupal and some other sites I maintain.