I’m using Drupal to power this site. It’s not as user-friendly as — let’s just say WordPress — but very powerful and easily extendable through well-designed PHP modules or even rude hacks inside your posts.

One nice feature for site admins is its status report page: At a glance you can check if your Drupal installation is in good shape, when the last cron maintenance tasks was run, and how many form submissions were blocked by CAPTCHAs.

What I like in particular is the list of available updates for modules and themes:

Through the use of eye-catching colors you can easily spot which modules are current (green), which might be updated (yellow, not depicted), and which should be updated (red). If you look closely, you can read out the modules current version number and the version available for installation. Additionally this page also directly links to the appropriate download packages, release notes, and — as in the example above — you can choose to branch over to the release candidate of a module, or to stick with the development releases.

Downsides? Just a small one… I usually forget to update the database tables, but this will also be displayed at the status report page.

Nice Job, Drupal community!

P.S.: … and you can configure the site to send you an email when updates are due.

I’m using Google’s Webmaster Tools from time to time to make sure that google crawls and lists my site as expected.
The current list of search terms and associated google positions really made me laugh…

“Penis” is hidden in an image description of this article. But why is my site listed exactly at position 666 for this term?

Woopra is a website analysis service that allows webmasters to monitor various statistics, and track and interact with individual users in real-time. This article covers how the Woopra client can be installed on some unsupported plattforms.

While installing the server side installation is easy as pie and done by inserting some lines of HTML in the site template, installing the Woopra client can be tricky. At least on Linux or OS X boxes.

I just set up a new site for one of my mothers projects: "Baum der Religionen" (Tree Of The Religions) - a project to improve the understanding and tolerance between different cultures and religions.

The idea is actually quite simple: Several different apple sorts were grafted onto an apple tree. Each of the seven apple sorts represent on of the seven world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Baha'i.

Once a year - when the tree is in full flourish - the "Apfelblütenfest" is celebrated and members of all religions are invited to enjoy a relaxing time with delicious cakes, enlightening talks, and interesting people.

Check it out:
Baum-der-Religionen.de (german – work in progress)

Like my own site it is powered by Drupal and a bunch of additional modules.
I like Drupal for to things: It's quite easy to get presentable results and it is very extendable through a wide range of available modules and even custom PHP code inside you postings (if you have to).