I have now been a member of drupal.org for a year! That's pretty exciting. I was thinking that it might be fun to put a post up talking about the things that have happened in the last year, and the things that I have learned. This might be a good resource to those just researching different CMSs, so here goes:

What a year it's been for me! A year ago we made the final decision to go with Drupal for our CMS at my work. I can say that decision determined a lot of my future in web design/development. Here's what has happened in the last year:

• I set up this blog (amariotti.com)
• I purchased my first web hosting package (liquidweb.com)
• I built 5 freelance sites (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• I built a family blog (ariottifamily.net)
• I oversaw the development of a module (salesforcewebform)
• I built our College website from scratch on Drupal (datc.edu)
• I planned my first "Website Launch Party" (dundermifflininfinity.com... just kidding, I really did have a launch party though)

It's been a great year. I've learned a ton about Drupal and about building websites in general. I couldn't have done any of it without the excellent community on drupal.org and a few developers. Thanks goes out to the community for the success that I've been able to find on the Drupal Content Management System! Here's to the future!