Well, just a little over a hundred days left until "project deadline"...and I have a bad feeling that it's really just a little over a hundred days until the Zoikes!! counter starts ticking off all the days since the "deadline"...!

Hence this blog entry: my ambitions for this site outpace my current technical expertise (damned Drupal documentation!!) and so though an "official" launch is still scheduled for my birthday, site maturation will be a long time yet.

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I've just thought of something to make this site even more useful. An online scheduler!

Okay, so there are lots of them around already. But hey, this one will be totally free, and specifically targeted for fitness trainers and facilities operators, so why not?

I don't envision Scheduler.WorkoutABC.com competing with anything like MindBody Online. But I do see it as a viable alternative for trainers' personal use, and it will be robust enough that even small facilities could benefit. Why pay all that money for a simple daily planner on your computer?

I've had three full months' experience with Site Build It! (SBI!) at the beginning of this year and now I am on my second month of Drupal. I feel I can adequately and fairly review each Content Management System (CMS) as a newbie webmaster who has no programming experience and only very limited scripting experience.

Okay, enough complaining about Drupal's steep learning curve. How about some good news for a change?

Drupal modules.

I am proud to announce that WorkoutABC.com now joins with Carneige Mellon University's web-wide reCAPTCHA project to digitize old books and periodicals, one word at a time!

So much thanks to Steve at Hot Drupal by Holistic Solutions in North Carolina -- my webhost extraordinaire!

I've been struggling with Drupal for half a month now, and though most of what had originally bedeviled me has since been resolved, new puzzles still crop up so prodigiously that I wonder whether I shouldn't just hire someone to do it all for me.

Almost a month after first conceiving of it, the website is taking shape and looking better!

Despite all the mysteries of Drupal, I'm starting to get the hang of things. Nagging curiosities remain, and new ones continue to multiply, but I'm much more confident now that I shall be able to resolve them to my satisfaction fairly soon.