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One of the - small - downfalls of Drupal is the lack of a really nice built-in administration interface. When you install Drupal, by default the admin area uses the same theme as the main site, and if you’ve a site with heaps of columns, or one that is just plain old thin, your admin interface will be a dog to use. Rootcandy is an excellent admin theme for Drupal that is easy to use and will ensure your site building is a breeze.
Drupal 6 has come on in leaps and bounds since I first had a look at it a few years ago. It’s now powering new projects i’m working on, including Shares.ie, Competitions.ie, and Ewine.ie. I’ve used the wonderful oDesk to outsource some of the work, and have a contractor integrating Keiths excellent css layout for Shares.ie into a Drupal 6 theme. Tonight, however, I thought i’d spend an evening multitasking by watching the excellent Munster-All Blacks match, whilst at the same time having a go at integrating Keiths Competitions.ie design into a Drupal theme myself.
Santa is being very nice to Compare.ie so far this year. The site soft launched about two and a bit months ago, we’re up to about 20k unique visitors per month, and it’s growing increasingly quickly. Just checking the stats (i’m a statsaholic!), so far this month the site is up 340% from last month. Happily, i’m seeing lots of returning visitors, and about 1,500 people have opted to receive our ‘Money saving deals’ newsletter.