The most annoying issue with Joomla!, despite the admirable efforts of many people involved with the project, is its tendancy to output crappy HTML. Even still, at least one of the default themes uses tables for layout, and last time I checked the RSS feeds that it spat out wouldn’t validate.
But the biggest problem is [...]
Tag Archives: CMS
SilverStripe sets new traffic record
October 2, 2008 – 8:20 am
Congrats to the SilverStripe folks for setting a new record for amount of traffic served by a SilverStripe-powered website.
Last time I played around with SilverStripe, it seemed like a pretty solid CMS (outputs valid XHTML, easily templatable, etc.) and I probably would have used it in a production site I was doing at the time, [...]
Content Management Systems – a look back in time
August 23, 2008 – 7:58 am
At work, we’re planning a website redesign. Okay, less of a redesign and more of a realignment. Our current site has been around since 2004 and though it is still serving us fairly well (four years isn’t a bad lifespan for a website of this kind), we’re beginning to outgrow it, as our research agenda [...]
Using Wordpress as a CMS – Part 3
August 15, 2008 – 8:50 am
In the first two “wordpress as CMS” posts, I discussed the benefits of Wordpress as compared with other free, open source CMSs and how to take advantage of recent Wordpress improvements when using it as a CMS. In this installation, I’ll go into detail regarding a few plugins that are a “must” if you want [...]
Using Wordpress as a CMS – Part 2
July 22, 2008 – 2:19 pm
A principle of good software design is to balance the demand for new features with the necessity to maintain a high level of usability, and one sign of good software is that the interface remains uncluttered and intuitive as new functionality is added. For an example of how to do this the wrong way, look [...]
Using Wordpress as a CMS – Part 1
July 19, 2008 – 7:11 am
For those searching for a free, feature-rich and easily-extensible Content Management System (CMS), Wordpress is not to be overlooked. Not only is there a growing “literature” of blog posts and tutorials on how to use Wordpress as a CMS, but the core developers seem to recognize Wordpress’s suitability for this role and are continually providing [...]