One thing always leads to another. I needed to do a security update for Drupal and decided to migrate this site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 while I was at it. This site runs very few modules and apart from a couple moments of ugly errors while I was waiting to run the update scripts, the whole thing went very smoothly. I haven't quite cleaned everything up yet, but things are essentially back to normal-ish.
In addition to doing the upgrade, I also took the opportunity to play with a new base theme, Nine Sixty. A number of respectable shops have been working with 960.gs (including Lullabot and Four Kitchens). Although I've used the grids for creating wireframes and general layouts, I'd never deployed a 960 site. After a bit of playing around I started to get the hang of how all the classes worked. I'm sure there will be a lot more tweaking as I get used to how to use everything efficiently, but in the mean time, it was an interesting exercise.
The biggest challenge that I ran into was dealing with the space between the columns. When I can "see" the grid it's all obvious of how I want the puzzle pieces to fit together. But as soon as I start relying on built-in CSS styles my brain starts to go a little wonky and common sense seems to fly out the window. It was an interesting challenge though.
The colours are from the gentle waves palate on Colour Lovers.
