Site News

I have been doing a ton of Drupal theming lately, and from what I have seen, there are just not enough free drupal themes out there. I have decided to attack this problem head-on by continuing to provide great Drupal 6 themes and Drupal 7 themes on Drupal.org and my new website, Theme Root. You might even go as far to say that some of my Drupal themes will be premium quality Drupal themes that happen to just be free. There are few great GPL CSS templates out there that aren't either already a Drupal theme or already a Wordpress theme. Our goal is to find Creative Commons Free CSS templates and create Creative Commons Drupal themes and release them on the site. Theme Root will also showcase some of the best Premium Drupal themes on the web. We have made friends with some of Drupal's top themers and plan to help promote their Premium themes whenever possible. We also hope to form more business relationships with other Premium Drupal theme shops.

In an effort to help my girlfriend get her cheesecake and dessert business started, I decided to help her get things rolling by helping her make a Drupal Gardens account and setting up a new site, Lily Bee's Cheesecakes and Desserts. The site is no where near completion yet, as we just made it about 1 hour ago, but it is already much better looking than some of the other bakery sites we were compairing online. So far we were able to choose a default theme she liked, which actually goes well with her business cards she already had printed. We also added some basic information about what Lily Bee's is all about. In the coming weeks we will be adding pictures and start adding some desserts. Until then, head on over to the site and join the mailing list if you are interested in getting some tasty desserts when they are ready to be shipped :)

For quite some time I have been trying to figure out how to get the Aegir hosting system installed, and the other day I found something that has changed my Drupal life forever. It turns out that Omega8, a specialized Drupal hosting company, has put out an installation script that allows you to install their fully optimized Aegir hosting setup. I decided to spin up a Linode 512 hosting account, as Chunkhost has been over booked lately and I have yet to get my Chunk. One of my clients that I had sign up with them just got theirs, so it won't be long I guess until they are back to being able to keep up with capacity. Overall, while testing their beta 512 Chunk, it was great. I had to try this script as soon as possible though, so I gave Linode a shot.

I have been doing Drupal on the side for a while, but within the last year I have gotten really serious about it. I ended up quitting my full-time job doing search engine optimization in the e-commerce and automotive industries to specifically do Drupal development and Drupal consulting in October of 2009. Since then I have created several sites for clients and have been involved on several other contract projects in conjunction with other companies.

I have been toying around with the Managing News and Tattler flavors of Drupal for a while, and recently decided to launch a couple websites to really test them out. I build the first website specifically for Drupal News and follows all the top Drupal news sources for the lastest content with Managing News. The other site I built was a site following all the latest Drupal Buzz from any source that is covering the Drupal keywords I entered using the Tattler app.

In an effort to reorganize our website better, we are creating some new category pages throughout the site. We have also added some new features that we hope you will enjoy, including a free software library. We have outlined the other category changes after the jump.

It seems that I renamed one of my contact images and forgot to upload the new image to my server. You should see the new images in your fractal Myspace layouts now :) I am going to be working on some new layouts soon, so there will be some fresh new fractals for your profile coming very shortly!