First Blog on Drupal 7

Welcome to the new nisch.org which has been built using a popular CMS product *cough Drupal* and not my own code (for the first time ever).

There are few things missing in Drupal which my old site somehow managed to do:

• Photo Gallery
• Yell Box
• Avatars for registered users
• Images in articles/blogs including attachments

This is probably because I'm using Drupal 7 which is not really past the 'Alpha' stage... hah oh well. There may be issues. There may be bugs (I've found some already). Harden up.

Also, for those who have previously had a highly valuable nisch.org account, your account has been brought across but you will need to RESET YOUR PASSWORD. Yep. I couldn't be bothered figuring out how to convert the MD5 passwords to the new 512 bit hashing scheme, so you can just suffer. Hah.

On the positive side, at least it is EASY to blog now and users can register/reset their passwords at their own free will (which will probably mean no blogs and no registered users, if the old site is anything to go by).

Unfortunately, the aggregations page isn't nearly as pretty as my old "activity" page, but I'm working on it. At least it's all completely RSS friendly now, speaking of which, all of you RSS users out there, you should probably update the link to http://nisch.org/blog/rss.xml. Easy.

Finally, I haven't brought across the theme from my old site, which I'm now missing quite a bit. So I may have to work on that, too. At least most of the content has been converted and in general things work "as designed", so it's not all bad news.