And so I decided to update this website. It used to be based on Wordpress, which although nice, I was never quite happy with. It seemed everything I wanted to do was a bit of a hack in Wordpress (even simple things like displaying a block on certain pages). This was probably most likely due to my much stronger experience with Drupal.

To this end I decided that when Drupal 7 was release, I would update edwinwills.com to become a Drupal 7 site, with my own custom theme. Well this time has come, and here is the result.

So, my thoughts of Drupal 7?

I do love it from a visual point of view (everything admin is very pretty now), and the new default theme Bartik is also pretty great. Themeing wise there are a few changes, but nothing that should trip up the seasoned theme-er too much. I use the 960 grid system for themes I create, and when I created this theme, the master theme for Drupal was not Drupal 7 compatible, so I just updated a copy of the Drupal 6 theme to suit me.

For me, the key module I'm missing is the Media module (previously Emfield). While it is available, there are a few key missing components for it (notably a lot of 3rd party media support). I will be specifically looking into porting the Media: Soundcloud module, as I use Soundcloud a lot for music production and tune hunting.

I'll keep updating the blog with how I get on with Drupal 7 - it is a very pleasant experience so far, albeit with a number of bug that have sneaked in (every now and then I get a few different error/warning messages - I'm still trying to sort them). As modules get updated these bugs will slowly disappear, and it will soon be at the stage of stability Drupal 6 has now reached.

Good work Drupal!

Well we're just over 24 hours away from the next Ready For The Floor, so here's a little sneak peek of what to expect...

Umek coming out with a fresh new insane piece of techno that I can't wait to hear over the Element 5 soundsystem at Ready For The Floor 6!