I’ve been working on a new website for a few weeks now. Initially, I was looking at WordPress Mu, but it just wasn’t capable of doing what I wanted it to without some major code changes, and I suck at the code part.
So, I moved it all to Drupal.

First thing first, I’ve got no prior experience at all with the software, the major hurdle was finding out what does what, as the terms used are quite different to those used in other software that I am familiar with. I then had to find out what modules I needed, again, not too obvious at first, but luckily the people over on the Drupal site were very helpful.

I just spent the last few days adding around a thousand terms to the taxonomy, only to find out that it was wasted, and I should have been adding them to custom CCK fields, which was a small irritant. Ah well, that means I have to change all the Views I’d already set up, and find a way to change the custom blocks to take advantage of the new CCK fields, rather than taxonomy.

Hopefully I’ll have the site working in some sort of form within the next few weeks. I don’t plan on theming it yet, just having it working would do for now.