Welcome to IlliniPundit.com on Drupal - UPDATED

UPDATE:  I'm an idiot - if you were using the Feedburner feed to subscribe to our RSS feed, please continue to do so.

Welcome to the latest incarnation of IlliniPundit.com, now published on Drupal, a more flexible, powerful and scaleable content management system than WordPress, our old engine. 

Things look different around here, and there are some significant changes.

• Every registered user (even non-authors) can create their own blog entries – but only featured authors (meaning you!) will automatically appear on the front page
• Blog entries can be promoted to (and off) the front page through the votes of readers
• Every registered user will have their own blog at www.illinipundit.com/USERNAME
• Every registered user’s content is syndicated (has its own RSS feed)
• Avatars, comment signatures, and the choice of a low-bandwidth mobile-friendly theme for registered users
• WYWIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) composing and editing for content
• A “Tracker” link just below the header banner, which you can use to show recently updated content of all types in one location.

You can do so with an anonymous username, although you’ll need to give us a working email address, although you can even get an anonymous email address with gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or any number of other options.

Once you register, you’ll want to go here for some basic instructions on how the site works. But if you have questions, please don’t hesitate to ask me via email – or, even better, post your question in an Open Thread or there on the Instructions Page and then everyone can help you.

Also, our feed address has changed, but that is both a positive development and a negative.

• The negative: Our feed used to be provided by Feedburner, a fantastic company. Drupal and Feedburner don’t play well together, so if you read this site using RSS, you’ll need to update your subscriptions. Our new general site feed address is here.
• The positive: Everything has its own feed now – you can subscribe to a feed for the entire site, for any and every individual registered user’s blog, individual threads, categories, etc. All the content on IP.com is now syndicated, and you can find it all here.

This new engine is going to present some challenges, and there are going to be questions and problems which I’ve not anticipated. I’m going to leave this thread stickied to the top of the front page (another new feature!) - please post your comments, suggestions, ideas and gripes in the comments of this thread, and we can figure this out together.

Thanks for your patience, your trust, and most of all, for your participation. This really is a community-driven site now, and I wanted the engine, design and features to reflect that. Now, as always, let us know what you think.