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Not sure why I have not noted before, the open source Drupal Content Management System (CMS). This is a full CMS that allows you to add and customise all elements. Themes can easily be created as well as add-ins, known as modules. It can be difficult to get used to, however it is getting better with each new version and there is help and tutorials available on the Drupal.org website. There is a mature API in place and is well documented. This is, as far as I am concerned, the best CMS out there.

I was recently sent a review copy of "Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery" by Matt Butcher. Having recently started to use JQuery with Drupal it was a shame I had not discovered it earlier.

Anyone who knows me knows I love to use the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). In my opinion Drupal is relatively easy to use, although it can be daunting knowing how to configure the system to accomplish the desired working website. For example, setting up a blog with Drupal is easy, but how do you add a gallery? What if you would like to pull RSS feeds from another source or even run an e-commerce website?

I have just finished converting the latest website template by Andreas Viklund to Drupal. See it on my pages, here, or on the Drupal website.

I ported Andreas02 (see original authors website) to Drupal in 2007. Since then, a huge amount of people have asked me if I would port other themes by Andreas Viklund over. Well this is now well underway.  Earlier today I released the initial versions of the following themes:

I wrote in a previous post about the Drupal Association. I would just like to remind people, if you are using Drupal, please consider supporting them, Membership is on £20 a year, they list your details so a bit of advertising and it helps to support further development. Just to quote what I said previously:

I noted in an earlier post that I was going to release my sites new theme. For those of you that missed it, this is part of what I said:

Mike Gifford from OpenConcept Consulting Inc. have posted about themes from Drupal that validate (see this post). One of the themes I ported, Andreas02 is listed. Thanks Mike.

If you would like a Drupal (CMS), WordPress (Blog) or other website developed, then give me a shout via my contact page, outlining what you require. I can work to short turn-arounds, customise the look and feel as well as content creation.  Just take a look at some of my work:

I have been working on a new version of the BTS website using Drupal. The site uses a complete custom theme, which will be released on Drupal next month for all to use. The site has been designed to be comliant with XHTML 1, CSS 2.1 and will be WAI compliant as well. Any suggestions, problems or comments with the site, please let me know by using my contact page.