Migrating

It's still summer, and I have begun migrating. I changed registrars for my domain, mostly because I had another account with my new registrar, and they were about $5 cheaper per year. I also moved servers since my other account allows for add-on domains. This means I can run both sites without having to pay twice for hosting. Plus, it just makes things nicer to have them all together. The other big move is to get the site from Joomla to Drupal. I don't know that this is exactly necessary, but I'm liking Drupal more and more as I play with it. What I want to do is to organize the data into such a way that if I ever switch again, it will be relatively easy to transfer the data. I have already moved the gallery from rsgallery2 to gallery2 (linked to Drupal through a bridge), which wasn't very big, but I didn't want to retype descriptions and titles. The routine was something like this: 1. FTP all (full size) images to the gallery2 location. 2. Have gallery2 generate thumbnails and add the images to the database with default titles and descriptions. 3. Export the rsgallery2 database as a csv file. 4. Open the exported database in excel or openoffice.org spreadsheet. 5. Export the gallery2 database as a csv file and open in excel. 6. Copy the title and descriptions from the rsgallery2 data and paste into the gallery2 file. It may be easier to sort the data by filename. 7. Save the gallery2 file, and import back into gallery2 using phpMyAdmin. 8. Refresh the databases in gallery2. It took a bit of tweaking to get the albums set up right, but overall, it was fairly simple. Much better than copying and pasting directly in the gallery. My main issue at the moment is that Drupal lacks anything like the DocMan component in Joomla. In fact, Drupal lacks anything to work as a decent file download manager. It has some fancy file managers, but they don't have descriptions for the files, which I feel is a necessity. There are some possibilities, so we'll get something up soon...