This article from the April 2008 Adobe Edge newsletter gives an overview of five of the top open source software (OSS) solutions:
CMS Made Simple
Drupal
Joomla!
WordPress
XOOPS
Blimey! I’m away from my blog for < 48 hours and when I get back the lovely people at WordPress.com have upgraded the back-end.
Immediately the new layout confused me when I was checking my comments for spam, and ended up sending about 10 legitimate comments to spam hell. Oops! (Recovered now.)
What do other WordPress users [...]
I’ve just been checking out the WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek on the WordPress Development Blog.
I’ve just downloaded Release Candidate 1 and installed it on my localhost test environment and in the five minutes that I’ve been poking around I have to say that I really do like what they’ve done.
The back-end has been given quite [...]
Back in the day when I was learning how WordPress worked (that’s the blogging/content management software that’s running this here blog-like thing) I must have literally spent hours pouring over the documentation, I printed out the source code and picked it apart, and found out what made it tick.
I really need to do the same [...]
Yesterday I picked up a book at Borders bookstore in Edinburgh. Actually, I went further than that: I also took it to the cashier and paid for it. It’s mine now. I got to take it home, and everything™!
The book was (and still is) Joomla! A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by [...]
I’ve spent much of today problem-solving a website project that I’m working on. I’ve decided to use WordPress to manage the site but need it to do a couple of things:
Navigation
The site has a number of sections, e.g. Home, About us, News, What we do, Contact us, etc. and I’d like the site [...]
You know when you’re sitting at your desk, of an evening, working steadily through your calendar of scheduled things-to-do and one of those things-to-do happens to be to add a new blog post to a website that you’ve been meaning for months and months to upgrade from WordPress 2.0.4 and you discover when trying to [...]
Spent the morning today checking out TERMINALFOUR TransferManager, which synchronizes a local publish of your website to a remote server. That was a profitable morning’s work as we worked out how it works, and what implications it has for the University website.
At lunchtime I’ve just downloaded and installed Drupal 6 beta 3 to my localhost [...]
