As you may know, GeologyRocks uses drupal, a rather excellent CMS. This brings about a few headaches when trying to develop your own code for it as the content (i.e. the stuff you need to test out your new code) is in the database, not as a series of HTML files as for a static websites. To help me develop new features for GeologyRocks, I've set up a development environment for drupal-based sites. This is how I did it...

Method

The aim is to create three versions of the website:

Ok, here's my prioritised to-do list to get a few things sorted that folk don't like with the new site and some technical things that still need some work:

Finally, GeologyRocks 3 is up! It's still far from "finished", but it's little tweaks here and there, a few help pages to add and some content that had been submitted, but not yet uploaded to add. Still, I should get these things done in the next few days/weeks

There's bound to be a few things that haven't quite worked right, so please let me know if you do find anything that isn't working.

Time for some breakfast I think, then start adding those pages!

Hope you like GR3!

So, the first blog entry...hmm...what to write about?