Drupal thoughts.

I'm a bit bummed right now because the Drupal 6 version of the Views module isn't done yet. Apparently the module creator is having trouble porting... a bit of a code-block, if you would. Which is fine but it kinda leaves me unable to do what I wanted with the Anthegenia site until it's done. :(

Maybe I'll give that Panels module a try though... and I may be able to make do with just CCK (content construction kit) with Anthegenia for now. Too bad I suck so hard at making pretty layouts, though :P We've pondered asking Charles to do some graphics for us, but a lot is on the back burner right now anyway until Jon and I get some funding for better instruments, recording equipment etc.

And my life continues to move like molasses... :P

As for my other Drupal issue, Kraken gave me some suggestions about the extra database load from tagcloud generation. Caching is one I already thought of, but it'd be a bit more complicated for tag clouds because I'd need the cache to update when a new post is made. So that'd have to be done at the level of the module generating the tag cloud (tagadelic), not in Drupal's page or block caching.

Almost the entire database load from the tagadelic module comes from a single db query. So... I'd have to 1) add a conditional statement to only have that query occur when I make a new post, 2) add some means to cache the results of the last query if it hasn't changed. I think the hardest part about all this for me personally is that I'm not very much used to messing with sessions... so, we'll see what I can do. :O When I'm not too lazy to code, that is!

At the moment, all I've really done is pare away some tags I thought were unnecessary. Haven't really messed with the categories yet 'cause I'm unsure how I want to do it, argh. I may end up sitting on the tagcloud thing for a while simply because my site doesn't load that slowly overall (less than a second once cache and sessions are loaded.) But, eventually it will have to be tweaked, if only because it's a good practice, in case my site expands more than I expected it to.

Don't see why it would, though... s'just my glorified blog. :P