I am perhaps (one of) the most excited to see the new Übercart module package introduced at Drupal.org as an alternative to the current e-commerce package. Read the full article here.

I finally got around to upgrading my corporate (God, I hate that word...) website to 4.7 today with surprisingly few problems. I feel so good, I just may upgrade to 5.0 later this evening!

Here it is:
http://www.lisalightltd.com

Demand for Drupal related services is increasing exponentially, as is evident from the increase in inquiries at my website this past year. Unfortunately, it seems the availability of Drupal related services are not increasing to match.

I have been extremely busy this past year with business as usual and various health issues including the premature birth (29 weeks) of my daughter. I got a chuckle out of one of my "recent" posts on Drupal 4.7. Obviously, I am NOW looking forward to Drupal 5.0 and leaving 4.7 in the dust.

Good thing I had a good backup of my www directory and database!

So I tried upgrading Advanced Web Design to 4.7 yesterday. I had all of the 4.7 verions of all the modules and I was all set. One of those moduels was our friend, tax_access. I unpacked the new files into the modules directory and expected everything to be fine.

Tax_access is supposed to use the Drupal update system for upgrades. Right? Wrong. Didn't work here. No big deal. I'll drop the old tables and create the new ones manually. I only have one term restricted, I just re-do the category permissions. But my problem had nothing to do with the tables.

Most website's I run will be easily updated once Drupal 4.7 rolls around. In fact, the average website won't need to be updated anytime soon. But for one website in particular, I am already having nightmares. I need to upgrade for a few reasons:

Had to delete the xmlrpc.php file that come with Drupal because my host was getting slammed by hack attempts - some successful, some not. The naughty installation was 4.3.3 and I have since upgraded to the 4.6.5 version. (Gee, how did that one slip by?) Should be safe now...

I have recently converted a few article "groups" into books. I basically went through certain taxonomy lists and used the "outline" tab for each one to add it to a top-level book page. The result that I found was that I got a much higher percentage of click-throughs with the book navigation than from a taxonomy listing.

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