Posts Tagged “CMS”

The #1 reason not to use Joomla

by Luke Rodgers on November 15, 2008

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 (…)

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SilverStripe sets new traffic record

by Luke Rodgers on October 2, 2008

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 (…)

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Content Management Systems – a look back in time

by Luke Rodgers on August 23, 2008

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 (…)

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Using Wordpress as a CMS – Part 3

by Luke Rodgers on August 15, 2008

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, (…)

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Using Wordpress as a CMS – Part 2

by Luke Rodgers on July 22, 2008

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 (…)

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Using Wordpress as a CMS – Part 1

by Luke Rodgers on July 19, 2008

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 (…)

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