As you can see I am trying a new theme design, again a CSS template down loaded from www.freecsstemplates.org, which I am trying to use as a Drupal theme. Not finished yet (in fact only just started), but the best way for me to see how it works is to actually use what I currently have.

Scrapped the seasonal theme and put it back to the original, bah humbug.

I have now started to generate some content for the Share-It module book so those interested can see what has been going on and how I have approached the project so far.

So a little more progress, I now have ShoZu video uploads working to my blog. The first attempt can be seen here. I have used an embedded quicktime wrapper to enable the videos that are uploaded to play and it seems to work OK from my Nokia N73 (using 3gp files). I still need to do some tests using mp4, but need to be careful on the file size as I have set up a small upload limit on my site.

I have been testing a few updates to my Share-It plug-in, first to make sure that if I created another user account and blogged to that it still worked OK , which it does.
And secondly I have now added an Admin menu option to allow the definition of the width and height of the image that is added to the blog entry. The admin setting will only affect new uploads as it is used to resize the original upload when it is received, but this also seems to work OK.

Well, after a good (and eventful) holiday, I finally had a bit of spare time to work on my ShoZu Drupal plug-in. The result is a successful end 2 end test from a ShoZu enabled mobile device to my Drupal blog of an image taken on my N73, currently this includes Title and Description. When I get a bit more time I'd like to add taxonomy words( ShoZu tags) as well.

The first upload test can be found here, more to follow as I work on the plug-in.

So I have started looking into uploading blog content via XML-RPC. This is being done with a custom module with my own functions for authorisation and upload. The upload is currently a combination of blog.newPost and metaweblog.newMediaObject as I need to ensure an image is uploaded to every blog entry (see the test blog here).

Thought I needed a "kick start" with my development so I have just purchased a book - "Pro Drupal Development"

Also found out that you can download a pdf of ch. 08 on theming - have a look at the Apress website. Might have helped when I was modifying the theme I am currently using rather that doing it the hard way and using another theme as an example.

I am currently attempting to create a theme for the site using a free CSS template that I downloaded. This theme is called envision and is being created from a template from Erwin Aligam. This was downloaded from his site StyleShout