Up with dashboards, down with SEO

Based on the excellent presentation at Szeged on Making a useful admin interface, I've decided to change the order of the chapters again in the Drupal book. I've done simple customizations for administrative users before, but I was quite inspired by the whole administrative theme that Marek Sotak has created. Using nice big icons and making the admin screens less cluttered, Marek has greatly improved the usability of the whole system. It was a good reminder that with very simple techniques Drupal can go from being a framework created by, and for, programmers to one that everyone can use. To keep the chapter count the same I'm dropping another of my chapters on Search Engine Optimization. I'll try to tuck the information into various parts of the book, as there's loads of good stuff to know, but I have a feeling a lot of it is going to get dropped. ... or perhaps saved for another project.

In other news: Bristol is lovely. The Watershed Media Centre has an excellent cafe that serves a delicious lamb burger (and also a very tasty steak sandwich). I've got another day of work here before heading up to Hay-on-Wye (or Ham-on-Rye as Shannon calls it) for one of those "vacation" things that I keep hearing about.

And in previous news: I have a load of pictures from Beautiful Budapest, but I haven't had the time to sort through them yet and get them uploaded. Unfortunately I keep forgetting to take my camera out here, so I have big fat zero for pictures from the last couple of days. Realistically most of it would be pictures of my laptop screen though.