Award Sounds Music, Photography and Consultancy

I'll be updating the underlying content management system of this website in the next week or so. I'll be moving it to Drupal 6.1. I know there will be a few features missing such as Similar Entries.

You'll also come back to a new look - ok, I'm cheating there, I'll be using on of the default themes while I'm waiting for contributed themes to catch up. That suits me, I wanted to change from this theme since it was looking a bit too busy.

I'll leave a maintenance message up, hopefully for only an hour or so.  read more »

I've had to look at a few options for improving performance on this site. I noticed that the introduction of the Feedburner module and moving the RSS feeds across to Feedburner had caused some performance issues.  read more »

I'm in the process of swapping this site's RSS feeds over to Feedburner. It allows me to manage the feeds better and understand what readers use the feeds for. For a start, I had no idea how many of you subscribe to this site or which parts of it.  read more »

Leaving comments may be a little awkward for a while. I've had TinyMCE on since I started this site, but as a writer I've stopped using it. I can imagine it being awkward for users who aren't used to it and a lot of the features never seemed to work. It was never number one on my priority since readers can always leave basic messages - just don't try to do anything complicated.....yet.

Easy-to-use

I value easy-to-use above lots of functionality in this case. So I'm on the search for something better. I'll post back when I've installed something.  read more »

Rather than just having a test site on a home server, I've been playing with different Drupal features over at this site's sister site at www.alancward.co.uk. I'm also using that site to host less professional articles than at this site. There may be some overlap as I put articles that may be of interest at both sites, but by and large I'll keep the articles and the sites separate with the odd article present on both sites.  read more »

After adding the HTML Corrector, I noticed that Blogrush (and not that site widget alone, some of the image adverts as well) were not displaying anymore.

The way around it is to create another input format that has free html input without the HTML corrector. It's also probably best to under the use of only the Administrator and not for general release for other user profiles.

Then apply the new input format to the blocks that weren't working properly with the HTML Corrector.  read more »

Wish I'd have found the HTML Corrector module for Drupal earlier. I've noticed some odd behaviour in a few places and so I'd restricted my articles to being mainly text-only.  read more »

Sorry to anyone who's tried to contact us recently. Some of the contact pages haven't been showing the spam filters they should have been. So you may have tried and failed or even tried but it failed later on. If you've contacted us but haven't received anything, please try again. 

I'm likely to be upgrading the filters in the next few weeks. But this particular issue was out of my control.  read more »

For some reason, the sidebar on the homepage is now showing on the left at the bottom of the page. I've no idea why this is happening. Only happens on the homepage, all other pages work well.  read more »

Not a Drupal issue here and to be honest, perhaps it's not an issue at all. But I can't get the Amazon banner search to show anything related to the content on this website. Maybe it'll take a day or two to work it's way through the system. We shall see.

I'm against website banners that are unrelated to what you're trying to view. I'm also against website banners and adverts that link you to stuff that the host wants you to buy because it's new or because of the commission.  read more »