Oct 13 2009

Vodka And Cat Food?

Category: Friends,Personal — ChrisM @ 2:43 pm

We haven’t yet made another order with Dostavlyika (the home shopping service here in Astana), though if the supermarket they use has some Orange Drive (a soda and vodka drink) in stock, I’m tempted to order a box or two. They also hadn’t (as of the last time I checked) added cat food to their site, or sorted the difficulties involved in locating similar products that are described in different ways. I noticed they were using Drupal, meaning that even if the original designer isn’t able to fine tune the site, it should be easy enough for other people to come along and improve it. Maybe DanD should wait a few months and then offer his services?

Tags: , ,

2 Responses to “Vodka And Cat Food?”

  1. Dan D says:
    November 22nd, 2009 2:19 am

    I’ve dabbled with Drupal and seems like a solid system but I still find it frustrating (coming from a programming background) when it comes to making a simple modification (e.g. changing position of something on the home page), changing some of the CSS and then realising that Drupal overwrites it with stored settings to ‘rebuild’ the page etc. I assume that WordPress works the same way but don’t know enough really.

  2. ChrisM says:
    November 22nd, 2009 10:46 pm

    I’ve not come across that problem with WordPress before. If you modify a theme’s code to move something, or alter the CSS, it generally stays changed. The only exception would be where you haven’t altered the code in all the necessary places. For example, if I move something down on the homepage, it is possible that the single post page would also need modifying, if it didn’t call the same code.
    Sometime we need to set aside a few hours (and beers/vodkas 🙂 ) and play with WordPress on a dummy site, so I can show you the basics.