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I'm spending time Friday and this weekend upgrading the software I use to run CMSReport.com. You'll have to excuse the mess as I'm working with a lot of themes/modules for Drupal 6 that are still under development. Feel free to report problems below, but note that the WYSIWYG for comments is currently offline. working but considered under "test mode".

Bryan

This has been a very cold week in the Dakotas. Sunday morning the temperature dropped to around -14 degrees Fahrenheit (that's around -26 degrees Celsius). These are real temperatures and not wind chill.

Needless to say, I am not spending a whole lot of time outside this month. However, these cold temperatures are very geek friendly. I am spending my time at the computer and getting some very needed things done.

Some of the items I have been working on that may be of interest to you:

1. I am starting to make some decisions on where I want to take CMS Report from here. I'm considering to go more "professional" with the site. The changes I would like to make may involve some willingness on my part to partner with someone who has similar interests and more experience in these matters.

  New minor versions of Drupal were released this week, Drupal 4.7.11 and Drupal 5.6 (see excerpt below). In case you're wondering, I have already updgraded this site to Drupal 5.6...no problems, no worries.

Drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6 are now available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities.

Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.

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• Download Drupal 5.6.
• Download Drupal 4.7.11.

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As a sidebar, Drupal 6 Release Candidate 2 is also out. I promise, we'll be one of the first sites to go Drupal 6 once the software goes "gold". We may break a few things, but well worth the price for some IT glory!

Unfortunately, I'm a little under the weather with some type of cold bug. So if you're wondering why I've been slow to post "featured stories", now you know.

I also found being sick and installing a CMS don't mix. I tried installing the latest development version of Drupal at drupal6.cmsreport.com...only to find out I installed it here at cmsreport.com. Luckily, I was able to quickly restore the site. Either way, this sucks...

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I'm in the middle of switching the text editor on CMS Report from FCKeditor to TinyMCE. Both are fine WYSIWYG editors, but I have seen some problems lately so this is a good time to try something different. The text editor is available to those who have open a free account here at CMS Report. The CSS in the Drupal theme I'm using isn't quite compatible with the TinyMCE editor so I'll be doing some tweaking in the next week or so.

During the past few months, I've been getting inquiries about how to place an ad on this site. If you are one of those people, I'm sorry if I haven't gotten back to you in a timely manner. I've been a little more focused on just getting the content out there as well as working on some usability issues for visitors here at the site. I plan on looking at some options and in a couple weeks should have a "how to place ads" page up here at CMSReport.com. If someone would like suggest an option, please feel free to leave a comment here or send an e-mail through the contact page.

As always, I'm open to suggestions for improving the site as well as criticism. A lot of people in IT don't like to hear complaints, but I'm not one of those people. Without good quality criticism, it's difficult make necessary improvements.