Sean Reiser

As some of you know my "love affair" with Drupal started a few year ago when I was leading a development team and realized we needed a better way of communicating. Of course there was no budget for developing or purchasing a tool, and after some looking around I found Drupal, and built a small site for my team to track bugs and share information as a skunkworks project. Since then I've repeated that experiment in a number of different firms. Recently, I've begun building a similar site for myself to help manage myself, any outside contractors I have and my clients.

One thing I wanted to do on the new seanreiser.com was have flickr sets as first class nodes. Nothing against the way the flickr module and flickr sets module creates a page flickr sets page, I just wanted something a little different. Quite frankly I wanted access to all the viewsy goodness drupal can give. Also as flickr doesn't provide an RSS for flickrsets I can have Drupal provide it for me.

There are 2 types of Drupal Consultants (yes I know these are stereotypes and many people fall in the middle).

Recently I’ve been in chatting over email with a tweep who’s looking to build a webcomic system in Drupal and get her webcomic publishing friends to use it as well. We’ve gone back and forth discussing what Drupal can do, what it can’t do. Where I have no interest in publishing webcomics I have often wanted to put together a photo of the day site to show off some of my photography, which has mostly the same functionality. I haven’t gotten around to setting it up because the cobbler’s children have no shoes. Over the next few days I’m setting up the site and writing a howto along site which can be used by someone looking to setup a webcomic. As I started the howto I realized that I wrote up a preamble which made sense as a different post. So, without further ado, here it is.