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This is the second time I've written this post.  Damn Firefox crashed on me last time.  Note to self - Save drafts...  To continue the story of my upgrade to drupal 7 now...

Well after a few teething problems it worked itself out in the end.  There were some issued, like because I upgraded the database there were a few corrupt entries which screwed things up, but on the whole I'm pleased how it turned out.  I also learned a few things when it comes to upgrading.

I decided that i would upgrade this blog tonight to Drupal 7. Wish I hadn't started it to be honest. What was supposed to be a relatively easy thing to do has taken me almost 4 hours and it's still not back on par with the old version. Why? Well, a few things which I expected and a few I didn't. Firstly on D7 you should get an administration bar across the top of your site when you are logged in. I get the bar, but no options!! Hello, how am I supposed to get to my administration pages? Secondly, the WYSIWYG editor which I use (CKEditor) doesn't seem to want to play nicely at the moment, even though it says it should work.

Wow, what a busy few weeks it has been for me.  Trips around the country, presentations galore, twitter/Facebook upsets, birthdays, holidays; It's been non-stop for me.  As usual the first thing that I forget to do when I'm busy is to update my blog.

So my idea today is to cram as much as I can into this post and hope that I don't forget anything on the way.  I may expand on some of these in the future, but I wouldn't stake your life on it.

Lets get started then.

Since web year dot, anyone building a site has had the unenviable task to decide which of the 5 or so web fonts they wanted to use.  Should it be the dull boring font, the newer but desperately unfashionable font, or Arial?  This has stifled the look of the web.  Over the years people smarter than me have come up with numerous ways to get other fonts to show on your website.  Usually these were either images, or using SIFR which makes use of Flash, neither very good from an accessible standpoint.

The other day I was reading an article about creating new courses on Moodle from a colleague here in the UK.  This got me thinking about how I went about adding courses to our college's installation.  Some of the issues that Suki presents in his posting are valid and i learn alot reading it, but I want to take it a step further on this post and let you know how we accomplish it at The Sheffield College.