Drupal

OnSugar is a new blog publishing platform with a few interesting twists: It's built on Drupal, and it's amazingly easy to use.

In fact, it's so easy to use, if these features ever get back into Drupal core, Wordpress is in big trouble. Hats off to the team at SugarInc for a job well done.

It's hard to capture the revolutionary nature of the improvements they've made to the Drupal blogging experience without trying it yourself, but here are just a few screenshots:

Creating a new post is easy, and you get a wide variety of content types out of the box: Text, Gallery, Spread, Poll, Quiz, Quote, Link, Chat, Video, and Audio!

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Jeff Robbins of Lullabot was on Leo Laporte's FLOSS Weekly podcast last week for their 40th show. I've been a fan of Leo since the ZDTV days, so it was pretty cool to hear him talking about Drupal. Definitely worth a listen. DrupalModules.com even gets a mention (thanks Jeff!).

Mark Boulton just discovered first hand the single biggest challenge facing the Drupal community today: Fear of change.

Mark: "Hey community, we're going to change everything... starting with this! What do you think?"
Community: "AAAAAH!! NO! You can't do that!"

When a large group of people are given a platform to express their feelings on whether "highly visible feature XYZ" should be changed, you will always find more than enough highly vocal individuals willing to say "no", and give you a litany of different reasons why what you're doing is absolutely wrong, a bad move, dangerous, or worse.

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I've been doing some analysis of the search data from DrupalModules.com.

These are the top 250 Drupal search terms, based on 29,754 user-unique searches performed in the last 4 weeks via the Drupal Modules search box. Font size is proportional to the number of searches made.

Multiple searches for the same term by a single user are only counted a maximum of one time, in order to keep the results as fair as possible. In other words, someone searching for the same thing 100 times in a row will not affect the results.

These results do not include searches made using Module Finder. Due to Module Finder's interactive nature, it does not generate the kind of statistics you get from a normal search box.

Here's a text file with the exact numbers for the top 250, plus a full-size, clickable HTML version of that visualization you see above:

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I just published an update for the A3 Atlantis theme. This new release contains minor bug fixes and better support for the updated region system in Drupal 6.

If you're updating a theme from Drupal 5 to 6, I definitely recommend checking out Wesley Tanaka's guide, he covers some things that are easy to miss.

Due to popular demand, A3 Atlantis is now available for Drupal 6!

A3 Atlantis features a standards-compliant layout, designed with speed, elegance, and search engine friendliness in mind. The XHTML/CSS codebase provides stunning looks and beautiful typography in every browser.

The new Drupal 6 release comes with some minor improvements, including smaller file sizes, more efficient code, and extra theme support for the Views 2 and Coder modules.

From the user's perspective, it should look identical to the Drupal 5 release, which you can see in action here.