A major problem with the original Providential Gardener blog is that Typepad was not capable of complex indexing. All it could do was tag. As the content grew and covered more types of information, the tag list grew out of control. It isn't very useful. For instance, included in the long categories list were some (but not all) RI town/city names mixed in with topics, subtopics, and event types. The separate news blog categories were not aligned with the Providential Garden blog's categories and included intended audiences (businesses, farmers. teachers, volunteers, etc.).
I'm a librarian and this really annoyed me! The project kept expanding and the platform I was using was too small to hold it.
So I looked for a better web platform and chose Drupal. This wasn't easy to learn, but by late 2014, and after building several other websites using Drupal, I finally produced a robust prototype -- this website -- that can handle the complexity involved in describing Who Does What to Take Care of Rhode Island.
