Oh, hello! If you're reading this, it's the first entry I've posted to my blog since upgrading the site to Drupal 7!

Tonight sees me writing a very frustrated Drupal post, but I've googled until my eyes went googly and I can't see a solution.

So I turn to you, lovely people of Drupal Planet. I need your expertise and advice. And possibly a sample .tpl.php file...

The 5 or 6 regular readers of this blog may remember that a while back our Unreality Shout site was attacked by spammers and pretty heavily vandalised. I asked for suggestions for workflow solutions that would prevent a repeat of this, but without making it harder for established members to post content.

A question for Drupallers who manage community sites where members can post content: Is there a way to hold the first few posts from a new member for moderation until they've earned trust in the community? 

I have a couple of dormant domains at the moment that I'm always threatening to do something with. For the moment though, they serve nicely as testing sandbox for various Drupal-y things I'm working on.

I test out a lot of content management/publishing systems. A lot.

As someone who runs a couple of websites, I make it my business to check out different publishing systems and see how they're cobbled together. Some systems are pretty straightforward to set up and conducive to publishing straight out of the box.

I'm a very renegade web developer. I like to exist on the bleeding edge, and I'm waiting with baited breath for the next version of Drupal to be released.

My memory of the last big Drupal release - migrating from version 5 to 6 - was a frustrating affair. Though the new core code was available, very few of the contributed modules were available at the time Drupal 6 came out.

I've got a couple of Drupal sites I'm planning to tidy up and work on over the coming months. Ideas for these sites are currently in flux, so I'm looking around to see other sites running on Drupal, what their features are and how they've been structured and designed.

If you're a convert to Drupal from a blogging platform like WordPress, you might miss the Previous/Next post links that allow visitors to read through the posts on your site in a chronological manner.

I've been searching for a solution to this for a while, but nothing I've found on Drupal.org has offered an acceptable solution for me. What I'm going to show you here is some code I've put together that retrieves the next and previous posts from the database and displays them for the user. If you are a Drupal guru and have suggestions for how to refine this, please share your knowledge in the comments.

I promised a while back that I would make the theme I use on this site available for free download.

Well, here it is. Called GerryBot, it's  a very minimalist one-column Drupal 6 theme. The original concept behind this theme was to have as little as possible on the page to distract from the content. Some of the features are: