Gerard McGarry

I noticed that the last entry on this blog was in March. A long time ago in blogging terms!

The last couple of months have been frighteningly busy, with web design work coming in to the point where I'm turning work away. I'm also having a bit of a blast with the music blog.

Haven't posted here in a while, but there's a lot of good stuff going on with Unreality TV and I wanted to share it here.

Unified Themes

I've decided to run this blog totally off the Garland theme for Drupal.

On my other blogs, I've thought long and hard about design, played by the rule on AdSense placement and other popular blogging ideas.

I don't want any of that here, just to be able to write with no other distractions! And so I've decided that this site will have no frills, no gimmicks, and be 100% widget-free!

Unreality TV has experienced some excellent coverage in the news recently as a result of the Jade Goody/Shilpa Shetty race row. Lisa's taken a lot of calls from radio stations, TV and newspapers looking for her take on the situation and to find out what our readers are saying.

Wow. Drupal 5. Launched today, installed this evening. I've got to say, this platform raises the bar for me. Drupal always seemed to go to great lengths to be user unfriendly. However, with this release, they've tidied up the back end, explaining what most of the functions are, which is brilliant. They've also got a darned sexy new theme which you can colour customise with a neat little colour picker and which then regenerates the CSS and graphics files on the fly. Plus, you can choose different themes for front and backend, which means that you can visually distinguish the public and private parts of the site. Very useful. I'm itching to give Drupal a good thrashing in the wild and am resolved to use it for my next great website idea (choose from a long, long list!). I definitely want to see how this platform ticks, both as a blog system, CMS, forum and whatever else it does!