LSNet Website in Transition

To protect against security vulnerabilities the LSNet site has been upgraded to Drupal 5.8. In the process, module locations were reorganized and drush, the Drupal shell was installed. Drush makes the contributed module update process easy.

The locally modified theme was replaced by Tapestry, a roopletheme.com contribution. Tapestry defines numerous regions on the page which can be filled with Drupal blocks, a suckerfish menu system (drop down menus arranged horizontally) and handles for many of the properties which define look and feel.

The site drupal.ls.net has been created to house Drupal specific content which has until now been commingled with local content. Several others are in the planning stage including Ubuntu, Open Source Software and hardware.

We have a few dozen more sites to upgrade which will keep us busy for another week or so.