So, the new site design is finally ready. I built this sucker from the ground up, using the Blueprint Grid CSS system, which is pretty freakin' slick! I'll post more about this later, including some documentation on what makes this theme tick and the views/panels magic hiding beneath the surface.
I've made a few changes-- I've unpublished all of my nonprofit writing, pending a transfer to my new venture, Standing Rock Partners, LLC. I'm also going to narrow down the topics that I post, and I'll have a gallery of my video and photography work coming up soon.
The newest development version of Drupal's Backup and Migrate module enables automatically scheduled database backups to be emailed off-site. However, due to a bug, it takes a little work to actually make this happen. The problem is, the module doesn't properly store your preferred email address. Here's how we work it...
Drupal updates are tedious--downloading individual files, uploading, manually running the update.php script... If you're administering more than one Drupal installation, it becomes tiring quickly. I've found two ways of solving these problems: the Drush utility and using Acquia's Drupal distribution.