This is my first blog entry

This will be my first blog entry. In my blog I plan to talk about drupal, and technology. Drupal, for those of you who don't know is a Content Management System, or CMS. What this allows you to do is easily create automated websites which allow users to interact with one another, and for website owners, and users to post data without necessarily knowing html, php or any web language.

I happened upon the Drupal CMS a while back after I had gotten frustrated using the unorganized behemoth that is known as xoops. I had seen that this was the CMS which the getfirefox campaign had run off of, and I thought that the feature set was quite appealing as well.

I have now been designing drupal websites since version 4.7. What's great about these websites is they are great in scope and do very different things. I have created a movie website which allows users to rate movies and share lists of movies with one another. And websites which enable users to sign up to take tests and based on these tests, users are then able to check out equipment. And also blog websites, such as this one, project management websites, such as one I have built in order to manage a television show, and deeply integrated organizational websites which manages the everyday functions of a non-profit organization.

Without drupal none of this would have been possible, so thank you drupal for allowing me to create such an array of great websites.

Now aside from all this gloating, I'd like to share some of my expertise, some of my experiences, and some of the challenges that have come up during my work with the drupal platform. Because drupal really is more than a content management system but a platform which can deeply integrate with almost anything you throw at it.

My name is Joshua Ellinger, but my pseudonym goes back to a nickname I had about 10 years ago. I didn't pick it but it stuck. And then about 3 years ago I started an electronic music group of the same name, and decided to buy this domain name, when i got a free name at this host, well the name stuck, again, and even though electronic music is much more of an occasional hobby than a source of income, the domain is here to stay. So I occasionally get a lot of hits from myspace, and thats great. Extra web traffic for me.