By now I’d become a huge advocate of Open Source Software as it gave me the ability to provide enterprise level software functionality to small businesses, levelling the playing field.
I was honoured when asked to build the informational site LinuxVAR for the UK retail market and whilst I built it using the XOOPS Open Source framework, it’s actually the site which ended up making me move to Drupal!
A couple of years later I saw the site had been rebuilt in Drupal, which finally made me look “under the hood” of Drupal - which wasn’t a system many could gain an easy start with - and realised immediately how powerful it was, outstretching anything the system I provided back in the “dotcom days” to clients paying hundreds of thousands of pounds.