(from maryland bridge, john k samson)
anyway!
so i’m in the process of moving my organization’s website from (proprietary hell) convio crm and cms tools to drupal & democracy in action. i’m working with these incredible designers and developers called floatleft and vernal creative. i’ve been really really skeptical of drupal in the past, but i feel like the issues with nonprofits and drupal primarily stem from orgs having very small web budgets and not being able to afford support & customization. so, i enter this drupal build with caution, but since we’re putting a solid chunk of cash into it, and working with trusted developers & designers i feel like we’re in great shape.
we’re also using democracy in action as a CRM. right now convio charges about 50K per year simply to maintain their service as a cms and crm. DIA however, charges $2000 to install and then $400 or $500 for maintenance. pretty cool.
i’m psyched to be bringing an open source platform into my work and i’m psyched to build with the folks i’m working with. i would use wordpress if i was building a blog, but given the kind of organization i’m building for, i think drupal is a good fit.
OH man!!!! Have you tried to import a NEW blogger blog to wordpress ever? it’s like, welcome to hell, no “one-click” nothing for you. I got SCAMMED by a developer who made an import script that embedded advertising for his blog in every single post. the code for that wasn’t even visible in his import file. terrible. i had to suicide the whole blog. crap. let me know if you have any genius workarounds, because i’ve tried a bunch of options which are NOT working. the best i have found so far is this, but it hasn’t worked yet either.
oh man i am so psyched. i just figured out how to make a favicon and put it in my browser. hell yeah.
here’s my little guy: 
So! Hello world! Antleredlife has just switched over from blogger to wordpress. Whew! It was so big that I had to get a real wordpress whiz to help me import all the 2 years worth of antleredlife to my new hosting. But now antleredlife is going to be much more awesome. My pictures are way bigger now and I don’t have that annoying thing where it says antleredlife.com and nothing else in your browser despite where you click. My friend Jason was up late last night importing all the stuff from blogger and he’s the best!!! He’s also a fucking slamming designer, in case you were wondering. Thanks Jason!! It’s going to take me a minute to get my blogroll back up and running and to design a new banner for my site. Yay!!!
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