I had several issues I wanted to address with regard to this blog. First, I wanted a tag cloud so that readers could easily find posts based on the tags. I also realized that Drupal's Clean URL's were not producing blog-like, Google-friendly URLs for my posts. So I added three new modules to this Drupal site tonight while watching the Presidential Debate. Path - this is a core module that is required for Pathauto. Pathauto - allows me to automatically set the URL and setup rules to automatically name the URLs. Works wonderfully.

I've been meaning to do this for a while now, and finally took the hour needed to: - Install Drupal 6.3 - Start the Broadstreet Blog The intention of this blog is to share my experiences in learning to develop content-rich web sites using the Drupal Open Source Content Management System. My only experience blogging so far is with my pizza blog, pizza.wordpress.com, which of course uses WordPress.

I've become a pretty big fan of Google Analytics and the more I dig into it the more I can learn from the various reports it provides. GoogleAnalytics is just about the easiest Drupal module to install-- it can't get much easier.

I woke up this morning to see 20 comments on two different blog posts, most of them posting a link to see Lindsay Lohan nude. I installed the Drupal Captcha module and configured it to hopefully prevent any more spam. A couple notes about getting this right. For me, the default font was unacceptably hard to read. I had to install additional True-type fonts by creating a fonts folder under the modules/captcha/image_captcha folder and copying in a number of fonts. I used the "liberation fonts" that I had downloaded previously.