As part of my graduate assistantship, I am building a website for a project connecting international librarians. However, in order to get started on following my bosses’ specifications, I needed a content management system (CMS) that could handle the work and be easy to update for a non-programmer like myself. After a tip from a close friend, I started investigating Drupal and found out that it is used by the White House and the group that is paying me for my work. With this reassurance, I decided set forth on my journey.
The first thing I needed to do was to learn about Drupal. I choose Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours which is not the best edited book. However, it’s a starting point. The next part was to install Drupal on my 1and1 hosted server. Below are the steps that took me two hours to figure out:
I first heard of Maggie Mason from ABCNews talking about women bloggers. I quickly fell in love with her blog (though it’s been a bit on the outs lately) and was inspired by her to keep chipping away at my own blog (what you’re reading now). For a good discussion about Maggie’s Mighty Life List, click here. In short, it’s a list of things you want to do before you die. I’ve been having trouble building mine but I’ll update this post with new items as I think of them:
1) Write a completed novel
2) Take Dad to Hatteras Point, NC
3) Carry a child to term/be a mother
4) Learn how to watercolor
I’m blown away by the simplicity but well-thought out design behind Lilith Fair’s logo. My favorite part is how they managed to make it look like it’s still in the planning stages with the bottom of the L stretching across to touch the other letters.
I’m no where as near talented as Shiver, but this is a start. I don’t know how shadows or highlights work on the facial plane so I’m mostly guessing here.
Last night, I convinced Shiver to share with me her coloring technique via Livestream and it was amazing! She brought Adramuth to life beautifully from the original sketch to have a well-rounded face that was both mischievous and promising of his future self.
