Oct
23.05

Some new projects on the side

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Okay, so I got my domain the other day, and I made a quick site using Drupal… Then that kinda died down, got bored…. :-P Now, my school Grant High School…. well they have a new website, www.granths.com, and it SUCKS. They even hired a ‘professional’ company to do it for them, and it still sucks (they’re using Movable Type as it’s platform) I don’t have a class with the Vice Principal, who is in charge of it, so it’s not like I can give some ideas…

The school also has it’s own seperate newspaper, the Grantonian. They have their own website, www.grantonian.com, which they update themselves using Dreamweaver. Well, I thought I could do a better job, so I started my own grantonian beta website, which is here, which uses WordPress as it’s platform. It’s probably done now, maybe some minor theme edits, but it’s done.

I sent a message to my Journalistic Writing class teacher, Mr. Leeman, who also is in charge of the Grantonian. He liked it, and invited me to a newspaper meeting sometime soon where he’ll bring up the idea to the other editors. So that’s kinda cool, it might actually get used!

Then I started fiddling around with my own version of the Grant High School website, the one that the VP is in charge of… And I used Drupal for that. After a bit of fiddling around, I have all the features that the current site has, even some more… But I didn’t even touch the template, or bother to re-create the structure. I decided it was just too complicated and time taking, and I wasn’t going to do it unless they actually want to use it.

I'm not finished with the design of my blog quite yet, please hold on while I fix the comments, archives, and search templates.

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