This site is based on the Drupal content management system. Imperial College Union (ICU) also uses Drupal. As am I’m one of the ICU Sysadmins it’s probably no surprise that I use the same version (4.3.2) of Drupal on the same server.
I wanted to upgrade the ICU installation of Drupal to 4.5.2 (the current release) to take advantage of new features, especially node-level permissions. Since I didn’t really know what I was doing I thought I should test the upgrade process on this site first! After a few hiccups the upgrade has gone reasonably well. The only data that seems to have been lost are the presentation customisation settings for the front page. In fact, I can’t actually remember the old message that used to be on the front page photo (or indeed, how I put appropriate white space around the photo using only CSS). If anyone can remind me I’d be extremely grateful!
Anyway, Drupal 4.5.2 looks much cleaner and fuller-featured. I guess I know (almost) have the confidence to apply it to the ICU web site. The only thing I’m worried about is the custom ICU theme. I think the ICU theme is based on one that is no longer available…
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