pingVision website redesign is live

2008-07-07T21:03:56-05:00

Whew! This was a long time coming, and just a tad more than a CSS reboot. We rearchitected the pingVision website from the ground up. Since the initial site had started with Drupal 4.5, there was a lot of legacy cruft in the database, left behind by modules no longer in use and, I have to admit, experiments I tried that didn't quite work out. The old site was launched in January 2005, back when Drupal was still pretty new to me. I've learned some things since then.

So we started over, and simply imported the published content, existing users and taxonomy structures. It was a lot easier than tracking down tables, variables and indexes left behind by modules of yore.

You may have noticed that we now have a video section. As I write this we have nothing completed yet, but we'll have some videos up very soon. We're very excited to get this part of the pingVision creative work back into gear. It's been too long.

This new site, powered by Drupal 6, is the result of weeks of back-burner development and almost a year of architecture and design tweaks, thrashings and polishes. We've leveraged some of our own contributions to the Drupal community, including Nodecarousel and Simplelist, along with some of the wonderful Drupal module staples, such as CCK, Nodequeue, Pathauto and Imagecache.

What do you think? Leave us a comment. We're also giving Mollom a try for comment spam/abuse management, so be nice, or at least polite. ;) And if you find a bug, please spare the comment and just tell us directly.