Topic: New site - status
I'm waiting for Drupal 6. There, I said it. Too many things that will be Drupal 6 only, which I can no longer ignore. In particular, the Views module, which is a query builder, is something I will *need* for the API. Views 2, which will be for Drupal 6 only, has the ability to have a different "root table" than the currently hard-coded "node" table (in which Drupal stores all basic info for each content type, like the title, author and body).
In the mean time, I'm improving what I've already built. In particular, my Hierarchical Select module has been rewritten to allow multiple selection (I'll post a demo later). This is something that will be greatly appreciated by you, I'm sure I've updated my Tabs panel style plugin for the Panels 2 module, which will definitely be used to be able to rapidly rearrange content on DriverPacks.net. In practice, this means we don't have to rewrite XHTML or CSS to change the lay-out or add new pages whenever necessary.
Today, I've finished my CDN integration module. A CDN is a Content Delivery Network. It's basically static file servers on steroids: they have servers all over the planet and allow super fast downloads. This means the next DriverPacks.net will load superfast, wherever you're living on this planet!
Drupal 6 will be released somewhere in the next month probably. Views 2 should be too. During that time, I will start porting my modules to Drupal 6.