Welcome to My World

Heh, well, I think it worked. AcidFree ate all the pictures I’d loaded into this beast, but that’s fine since I’d been migrating to Gallery anyway (the image munchage was quite possibly my own damned fault, so don’t misread this as a condemnation of the AcidFree module). You might come across [acidfree:1234 blah blah] tags on occasion; I’m figuring out a reasonable way to find every entry with those tags in ‘em and clean them up.

Here’s the stuff that’s changed in the upgrade to Drupal 5.3 (from 4.7) that I’ve noticed (and/or that you’ll notice):

• Pages load a good amount faster
• Thanks to a new auto-aliasing module, URLs automatically get cleaned up (“topics/blogs” became “blogs”) and shortened wherever possible, with aliases to the old ones left in place so URLs don’t break
• The theme changed (heh — frickin’ duh), and now you get to stare at my freaky ass on every post instead of that bat-shit crazy sideways-looking cat
• Some widgets on the left side are DHTML expanding now, meaning you can click on “Polls,” for instance, and see the list scroll down without a trip to the server (I suppose this means I should start brewing up actual polls, eh?)
• The “node permissions system” I was using is gone, since I never actually used it
• There’s a “barf” smiley: … heh!

Ummm… there’s probably more coolness under the hood, but I haven’t found it yet. The good news is all this is generated now with existing templates/code; I didn’t have to change any files (except a minor change in the theme’s stylesheet) to make things look like this. That sure beats hacking the hell out of the old theme!

So, onward and upward! (The funny part? They’re already shipping Drupal 6.0 betas )