About Me

My name is Michelle Cox and I'm a full time mom and very part time Drupal freelancer. I have been using Drupal since April of 2005 to build hobby sites and started doing a little bit of paid work in September, 2007. My children keep me quite busy so my computer time is limited and sporadic. Therefore any jobs I take on must be short and/or have very flexible deadlines.

My interest in Drupal is primarily in social networking / community sites, especially user profiles and forums. My strongest points are knowing what modules to use to achieve the desired functionality and writing custom code to fill in the gaps. While I am able to do some theming, that is my weakest area, especially dealing with CSS layout and IE quirks.

Some examples of my Drupal sites. These are live sites so no test accounts/posts, please (other than SocNet).

• Coulee Region Online is a community portal site for my area. It is currently on D5 and I will soon be doing the D6 upgrade as well as major architectural changes..
• La Crosse Area Camera Club: Photography is my other hobby. I am the secretary and webmaster of our local camera club. It's a fairly simple site, mostly making use of views and CCK but may be of interest as a Gallery 2 integration demo.
• MOMS Club of Holmen: MOMS Club is a wonderful organization for stay at home moms. When I joined in 2005, I discovered they didn't have a website. Unfortunately, restrictions from the parent organization have reduced it to just a simple brochure site.
• SocNet: This site is meant as a demonstration / learning tool for Drupal social networking. The site has very little in the way of customization and shows what Drupal can do with no programming required.

My contributed modules:

• Advanced Forum: Enhancement for Drupal's core forum that helps make Drupal's forum similar to stand alone packages.
• Advanced Profile Kit: Tools for building advanced user profiles.
• Author Pane: Author information block used by the other two modules and also as a stand alone block / theme function.