I have updated this website to run on Drupal 9.
There are a lot of back end changes, but the most obvious is the new theme. The URL is now rhizobia.nz rather than www.rhizobia.co.nz just to keep it short and simple.
I have kept the new Drupal 9 default theme 'Olivero' with almost no customisations so I don't have to keep up with security issues running a custom theme.
![drupal 9 logo](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/9.0_blue_RGB%281%29.png?itok=cWGI16pB)
This website has gone though quite a few design changes since I started in 2002. This was the first design, all of the HTML was written by hand in notepad:
![original 2002 design](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/2002design.jpg?itok=oV83eznr)
Then in 2004 I had a dark overhall:
![2004 design](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/2004design.png?itok=eIhmt-eZ)
Then the 2005 design tweak lightened things up a bit:
![2005 design](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/2005design.png?itok=1ZQvqBuo)
The 2008 design got curvy:
![2008 design](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/2008design.png?itok=Cz2myx8Z)
Then in 2012 I finally moved to using a CMS in Drupal with a customised Bartik theme, with a change to a responsive version of this theme in June 2013:
![2012 design](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/2012design.png?itok=IYXdQCVz)
And now in 2022, twenty years after the first design the current theme is a lot more generic, but works better on mobile devices, and supports all of the latest standards:
![2022 design](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-12/2022design.png?itok=WeyQRDF7)
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updated to Drupal 10
and now on Drupal 10, a much more simple upgrade. Just needed PHP 8.2 and needed to update composer version in composer.jason to 2 from 1.9 e.g.:
"composer/installers": "^2",
Drupal 10 also let me easily move back to an orange theme.