So the weekend has been a bit lazy concerning blogrimage. I barely touched the site on Friday or Saturday but I knew it was time to hit it hard again.
I added the following features:
* Users may now flag content as inappropriate.
* Users may bookmark blogs.
* Users may "friend" other users.
* A blogrimage will only pull posts that take place within times specified when registering the blogrimage. This will prevent unrelated posts from being pulled in.
It's always exciting to work on the first pieces of a website. From it's humble beginning of nothingness the result no mater what it is an infinite improvement. After 3 days of development on my local system I finally deemed the result worthy of promoting to the live site. The site now has actual content and features two blogrimages. The first is this one which you are reading now and the second by Eric Ordway. Having real content on a site while it is under development is an invaluable resource.
I have to admit after spending most of my day at work building a website it's a real challenge to come home and go right back to web development. The good and bad thing about it is I'm the boss. If I'm up and at it I can get a lot done and it will be exactly what I wanted to do. If I'm not feeling it their is no taskmasters whip to keep me going. Today I had to really struggle to get to work but I had an early milestone victory that encouraged me to keep going.
I put off today's work a little longer than I probably should have but made progress none the less.
I set up a local copy of the site on my laptop. It allows me to develop a bit quicker and with the setup used I can push all the changes to the live site rather quickly.
I added several other modules for site administration and built the first couple of content types.
The site will feature two content types initially.
1. A blog post
2. An rss feed registration.
Today was mostly consumed with installing basic site setup. I installed Drupal 7 on my already built server, created the virtual host and database, added the whole thing to version control, and installed several modules used for development and site building. Sounds like a lot of work but its a process I've performed around 100 times as its required for every new website. Additionally I registered the domain with Google apps allow me to set up e-mail addresses such as administrator@blogrimage.com.
