Today was a bit of a busy day.

started with some discussions on some home design with ju, hijaz and kahar. they shared their websites as follows:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/16807998016910934448
http://bahahouse.blogspot.com/
http://bungalowdesign.blogspot.com/
http://sabrihouse.blogspot.com/
http://zainihouse.blogspot.com/
http://hizalsbungalow.blogspot.com/
http://binarumah.ambok.net/

unfortunately, our ambitions are not for big houses. :)

I post this on the drupal website at http://drupal.org/node/91684

I have posted a couple of requests for support on the following threads:

http://drupal.org/node/62255
http://drupal.org/node/62255#comment-126256

http://drupal.org/node/64591#comment-122097

...but can't seem to get any answers. perhaps my requests are buried deep in the thread. so i decide to create a new thread to seek help.

what i am trying to achieve

i would like to setup more than one drupal site using a single code base. each site would have different settings / databases. i do not want to have subdomains (although this could be a later requirement) or parked domains (as suggested by fidelis on http://drupal.org/node/62255#comment-126409). my response: i intend to set up various community interest sites with a single domain as being the traffic aggregator, so the additional domains is not an option.

A colleague of mine recently asked me the question why I go about building the various websites that I do. What I expect, and have any of my expectations materialised?

A good question.

My view is simple: I have a number of interests, objectives and thoughts on various subjects. Sadly, I have very little time to further expand on those interests, objectives and thoughts (as an individual). However, I fully believe that as a community each individuals has the ability to "help each other" on these matters. The gain I seek for many of these are not monetary but of information, personal learning and development.

You may be wondering what is all the odd and disjointed components on this website are all about. Certainly it is not intentional the way it currently looks right now. I am experimenting with some techniques on improving the navigation on this website.

One of the techniques is javascript + CSS pulldown menus that you see on the left hand side NavMenu bar. I am taking a few tips from suckerfish and a from css.maxdesign. I'm also visiting the CSS creator forums for discussions and tips. I would like to create a menu which opens up as you hover over selected items. I hope this will improve the usability of the site.

For now, the CSS is all screwed up. So bear with me. I would also suggest that you use Firefox for the best & standards compliant experience.

Another mega-cool feature of drupal is the ability to add RSS news feeds to my website. I've just activated the news feeds which can be accessed by the news aggregator or the world news links on every page on this website.

Gosh I have many stuff going on at the same time.

I have a few blogs going on which potentially overlaps. So I need to thinkof how to segregate the targets / the focus of each blog. I should firstly try to make this blog much more livelier. So this shall be my main blog and should be quite light and fun.

The Mind of Paloque is an interesting blog... it was intended to be philosophical... but how philosophical can one get?? One thing's for sure, I prefer the Wordpress blog engine compared to drupal or blogger.com. To be honest, drupal is not the tool for blogging per se... although it is in my opinion a fantastically versatile tool which does blogging quite capably.

I need to organise myself.

I've been tinkering with all manner of cms, blogs and websites. To date I've got the following up and running - if accessibility on the www counts as "up and running":

• http://www.my-kart.org - which hosts all the my-kart related notices discussions, events and my own karting blog. this is perhaps the most "up & running" website with around 200 registered users.
• this website - thefazz.com: but I may be testing many applications on this website including drupal, civicspace, wordpress and perhaps others like phpBB, mambo and other cms, groupware and BBs. In actual fact this is my test & experimental site, where I can try out several blogging, cms and BB scripts. within thefazz.com, I have the following:
  • "TheFazz.com | share the passion" which uses the powerful open sourced Drupal content management system
  • "the mind of paloque" which is based on the wordpress blogging engine which I really love. I'd like to use this blog for philosophical discussions & thoughts.
  • "8127 Over Drive: Home of The Fazz" which is a static (non script based) website, which I ported from Geocities and Tripod. Basically done in the late 90s when I was learning and experiment with HTML.
• used to have The House of Commons... now defunct... but perhaps need to resurrect it... what do I intend to do with THOC? It is supposed to be a community site. For what, I don't know... I need to find a suitably popular proposition for it. In the meantime I set up klang valley fun & friends as a site for general community stuff