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The Yale School of Drama, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, is building a new Drupal website to facilitate online learning for students and teachers alike. The initial scope of the project is for the Special Speech department where they’ll be using Drupal to manage all of their speech audio files used in teaching about regional dialects and accents. From there, they hope to expand and use Drupal to manage the entire Yale School of Drama website.

I just finished the first week for this 8 week contract and it’s going great. I’m the senior web consultant on this project (as usual!) and I am architecting the new site, developing the plans for how all of the various modules and components should be put together. I’m also conducting various Drupal learning activities and mini-talks over the phone on how different aspects of Drupal work and how they are going to be used in the new Yale School of Drama website.

Drupal is an amazing web framework. You can build almost any type of website with it super easily. Just check out Zack’s screencast for an example of this.

But it’s not just point and click, with a plethora of hooks, one can easily create a complex module for Drupal in a matter of minutes (hours, if you count the time needed for debugging ;-)). And with the new JS library in 4.7, creating Javascript rich modules is quite easy too. Talk about easy programming!

Can we ask for anything else?

MothersClick is a flourishing site that is growing very quickly. As such, tracking user behavior with Google Analytics is becoming very important as it helps to determine how to adjust the site to better meet the needs of our users. And now, as we prepare to launch our full ParentsClick Network of sites, we need to track what they are doing across our network of sites.

Well thankfully Analytics makes this easier through its ability to track outbound links and cross domain links. But the problem then arises, who is going to update all of those hardcoded links with Javascript code? Is there an easier way?

Ryan Carson writes an http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fourdayweek”>interesting article about 4 day work weeks. The basic premise is, you’re always going to have too much work and it’ll never all get done. So why overwork yourself?