One of the most painful experiences you are likely to have with Drupal 5.x, or earlier, is altering the menus served up by the core User module. Thankfully, Drupal 6 permits editing the User module menu items (or so I'm assured) and also has the seemingly useful hook_menu_alter, which I guess works in a similar fashion to hook_form_alter but, predictably, for menus. (I haven't verified this.)

I spent today working on setting up a basic version of the WhatTalent community website. It's early days, but I'm quite pleased with the day's work. My client, Olly, is too. In fact, he seems to be staying up all night populating his blog!

I think the neatest feature is the little "Shoutbox" I've made for him. I was going to install the Shoutbox module when it occurred to me a "shout" is just a short string of text.

Well, it's been a long time coming, but I have finally found the time to create a personal website using Drupal. Silly really. The whole thing only took about four hours, and here it is, but you know how things are. Best intentions and all that.

Anyway, Happy New Year to one and all, and I can check at least one resolution off my list! ;-)