Urgent

Because I am going on a 12-month backpacking trip soon — and because I am fully booked out until I leave — I am now officially announcing that I am unavailable for work until further notice. You can still contact me using the contact form, but don't bother unless it's something non-work-related. I'm on holiday, OK? :-)

For the first time in almost 2 years, a major upgrade of the site has been completed. GreenAsh has now been switched from Drupal 4.5 to Drupal 4.7. A number of important changes have been made, including the design of a new theme, and the use of new 4.7-only Drupal modules, such as the views module and the category module. Read about the details of how it was done in the thoughts archive.

User registration and user commenting have been temporarily disabled site-wide. This means that at present, no new users are being accepted, and all pages on the site are restricted to read-only access. This has been done because we are currently in the process of performing a major upgrade on the site. All services will be restored once the upgrade has been completed.

At 12:30pm today, the hit counters for every piece of content site-wide were reset to 1. This was done because search engine bots were inflating the numbers on these counters, and hence they were becoming ineffective at providing useful statistical information. Measures have now been put in place to stop these bots from affecting the site's counters.

The new version of the GreenAsh web site - powered by the Drupal content management system - was launched today. Read about the enormous changes that have been made, the benefits of switching to Drupal, and some of the updates that you can expect to see here in the near future.

The development of GreenAsh's online forum system is now complete, and can be accessed by going to the forums section. We ask that you post any queries - technical, sales-related, or otherwise - in the relevant forum, and that you check the forums regularly as you would the site news.