It's official: HongPong.com is switching to Drupal

For my birthday I decided to give myself the gift of a brand-spankin new website system that blows everything else away.

I am throwing a party later today, after 9:30 PM or so, at 1764 Portland Ave. APT 4, St. Paul. Everyone who manages to read this is very much invited. It would be nice if people could throw in some beer but that's not required at all! My cellie is 651 338 7661 if anyone needs info.

There are a number of good Content Management Systems out there. A CMS is basically the back-end of any dynamic website - from a newspaper to a band to a blog to whatever. I like to tinker with these different systems, but HongPong.com itself has been hosted on MovableType 2.661, the last free version ApartSix released, quite a few years ago. Sadly, the spammers know MT's weaknesses all too well, and since I switched to Powweb hosting, I've gotten a torrent of comment spam that I just don't care about enough to erase.

Anyhow, the final decision is Drupal, a really great system that runs The Onion, for example. Most any site where you see "node" in the URL is a Drupal site.

See Drupal.hongpong.com for the test site, and register if you want. That part should work already. We get all kinds of bells and whistles with this, including photo galleries, easy file uploading, events and other cool dynamic shit. Also there is already a massive RSS syndicator thing in operation that will give you fresh headlines from around the internet constantly.

It will be put onto the front page when I am done working on it. In the meantime there's a new banner and a sweet upcoming features menu I just whipped together.

It's gonna be frickin' sweet. What more can I say?