This website has been created using Drupal, which is an open source content management system (CMS). This makes it quite easy to create the website, and very easy to maintain ( DM is not very technologically minded...).

This is the second Drupal website I have created, and I've actually done a little bit of coding behind the scenes on this one. Now that I've finally done it, I was surprised by how easy it was to work out. Just look for snippets of code on the Drupal website, and figure out how and what to change - most of my changes were playing around with the theme of the website to get the stories looking as we wanted them to.

Some of the modules used on this site

• Panels - an easy way of putting lots of different content onto the same page, used mainly on the home page.
• Views - this is putting the content into three columns and creating the table used in reviews, but can do a lot more. Helps you to create the kind of view you want to see, and works with Panels really well. It's also running the search facility as the one that comes with Drupal doesn't seem to be picking up as much information.
• CCK - create your own page to put information into, this is used on all the reviews.
• Tagadelic - makes a cloud of tags, the larger ones have the most content attached to them.
• FCKeditor and IMCE - Makes it easier to write the stories as you don't have to use html to make text bold etc. IMCE looks after putting the photos onto the stories, it's very easy to resize and then just drag around the story to see where to put it.
• Glossary - used to explain some of the terms used on the website.
• Related links - discovers links that could be similar to the story you are looking at. We could put our own links in, but it seems to work fairly well by itself.
• Stumble - just a way of taking a magical mystery tour around the site.
• Taxonomy image - Used to give the sections their images - mostly pictures of Dave clones.

It took me about two weeks to create ( working on it in the evenings and weekends when I had time). Then I just moved some files over from the other website, and it was ready for DM to write some more content.