There are a lot of places online to get free website and wordpress templates.  A really nice one I found was Arcsin's Website Templates.  He has Website, Blogger, and Wordpress templates available for free download (as well as professional templates for sale.)

As I become more involved with creating themes and modules for Drupal, I have decided to make some of the templates from Arcsin available to use as Drupal themes.  Due to licensing issues (Drupal being under GPL and these templates being released under Creative Commons) they can't be distributed from Drupal.org's theme section, so I will have a page dedicated to my Drupal themes, ports and modules here on noobbox.

I'm having some small issues making the menus appear how I want them (child-items being indented, etc) but overall the porting is going fine.  I don't have a  date when they'll be available, but if you subscribe to my RSS feed you'll know when they're released.

If you have an existing web design, or you've found one you want, and you want it ported to Drupal, I can help.  Depending on the project size I may even do it for free. :)

Update:  I'm writing these themes and modules for Drupal 6.x, but I will eventually write them for Drupal 5.x (because so many people still use it and it is still supported by Drupal.org) and for Drupal 7.x when it is released.

Hope everybody had a nice Christmas.  I got a new camera, Fargo on DVD, a Tervis Tumbler, and a really nice sweater to name a few things.  It's been nice having 2 weeks off from school, too bad it's almost over.

Well here in Michigan, USA we have about 21.5 hours left of 2008.  As the clock ticks closer to 2009, I'd just like to wish everyone a happy new year.  I plan on spending time with friends playing Wii and probably playing D&D (never played but I'll learn.)

At my house, I have an Ubuntu server setup to store/share files, stream music, develop web sites, and some other things.  I leave it on all day because it serves as the print server for all the family computers, so I figured I could put it to some use.

Incase you've never heard of it, Stanford's Folding@Home project is a massive distributed computing grid, using the processing power of thousands of personal computers' idle cycles to simulate folding proteins.  I'm no scientist but on their web site they explain that folding is how cells work in the body.  When these cells mis-fold, it causes diseases like alzheimer's and mad cow disease.

So I installed the Folding@Home client on my server.  I wonder why more people don't set this up.  It adjusts so that the process doesn't suck all the CPU resources.  The client reports to the servers at Stanford to record both my stats and overall team stats (I joined Team Ubuntu.)

If your computer is on for more than 6 hours a day, you should take a look at it.  Folding@Home has a client for just about every computer operating system, so users from Linux, Windows, and Mac can all help out.  There's also support for multi-core processors, so you can run a client for each core.

I'm starting to work on my site some more.  I'll be moving my blog and downloads into the site as time goes on.  Work on noobbox has kind of stalled as I work on other projects like The Mana World Buddy List.
I'll be starting back up on some of my old projects like

• Waim server - Since I moved to Ubuntu, I haven't really been doing much Windows development.
• Pokebattle (facebook and myspace application) - Never really got off the ground
• OpenX (oxy) instant messenger - We're looking at a server for this, as well as the whole Ubuntu issue...
• Image Mirror - I started a new version with tons of features but haven't been working on it a lot.

 
Soon noobbox will become more social and I'll be adding things like forums and whatnot.  Drupal is fun to use and lets me add features via modules, so I'm also looking into theme and module development.
 
Oh yeah, you can also register/login and post comments.  :)

I have changed the URL to the Waim demo.  It has been updated to waim.noobbox.com so please note this change.  The server software hasn't been worked on in quite a while, but I will work on it eventually.

Noobbox.com has officially switched over to using Drupal as a content management system.  It took a little bit of work, but it's paying off and making it a lot easier to update pages and content.

I'm still looking for a way to setup a file manager for my Downloads section that is a module for Drupal.  The downloads will be unavailable until I get the new Download Manager setup and working.  You can take a look at http://download.noobbox.com if you want to.