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I've been tinkering with Drupal as part of upgrading my web development skill-set for some months now. As part of the learning process (and because I wanted an editing interface to update the site easily) I've redesigned my own website to work on the Drupal platform and utilise some dynamic web features. My background is in 2d design that includes a modest amount of front-end coding experience and a rather bloody-minded approach to problem solving.

Enough background though, I present my site: www.johnnewall.com

The site really revolves around the portfolio section with a few supporting pages. After tinkering with a multitude of modules on test sites I really didn't implement that many in the end. CCK and Views are at the centre of making most of the site happen with sorting and presenting content, they really are stellar modules. ImageCache and ImageCrop neatly sort out images so they fit in the design. Finally some 'fancy' trim was achieved with Lightbox to display images and views_Slideshow adding a little motion on the front page.

All of the modules were surprisingly easy to implement, as was creating a custom site. Porting static HTML layouts to make a Drupal theme proved to be straight forward after reading a few tutorials. The site utilises several custom template. Fewer could have been used but I wanted to keep flexibility for styling different sections.

Next step might be to implement client access with some features to aid with project tracking.