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Burningbird Technology

Live, on Drupal

I’ve now successfully made the move from WordPress to Drupal. The move was challenging at times, not the least of which I was so comfortable with WordPress and was moving into a completely new environment. However, now that I’m finished and I’ve had a chance to look around, I’m happy I’ve taken the time—both in […]

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Just Shelley

The long way home

Before weblogging and RSS—long before Facebook, Twitter, or the next poor bastard service, doomed to be worshiped and then sacrificed on some given Friday—I used to write long essays I’d publish online by hand editing the HTML and posting the static files. Having to manually create the HTML template and design, incorporate navigation, and craft […]

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Media SVG Writing

Working…

I’m almost ready to go live with the site. Right now I’m trying to create a custom Drupal theme from this site’s design. Once that’s finished, then we’ll be in business. The image below was created by converting two bitmap graphics, the book cover and a painter’s easel, into one combined image using SVG–Scalable Vector Graphics. Though […]

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Burningbird

One hundred and forty characters

This is my first post in RealTech using Drupal. Once I finally figure out how the template system works and finish setting up my other sites, perhaps I’ll be able to write something again. I’m not sure what I’ll be writing, other than I know that nothing I write will be less than 140 characters […]

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Burningbird

Last post

This is my last post in the RealTech WordPress weblog. RealTech will be back, though whether it will be a weblog or stories, tutorials, and the like, I don’t know yet. Whatever I do will be implemented in Drupal. I’m finding that Drupal really is a good solution for me, and not just because of […]