http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp Day to day threads Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:50:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the previous post about Joomla, I listed some extensions that address the category limitation issue. However, installing third party extensions runs into the issue of updating your original CMS software. Before you decide to expose your Joomla site to the Update Dislocation Blues, you might want to look ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=9 If you use Joomla, you are familiar with some of it’s benefits, and short comings. The built in banner mechanism supports banner rotation (useful if you wish to attract advertisers), and the user/contact manager, while not as deep /flexible as some of the other CMS, is relatively simple and ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=8 If you happen to be a Yahoo customer who is trying to use Sitebuilder, there are some important issues to remember. 1) Make your page titles unique, even if it means you use “site name: page name”. Having all the pages titled “site name” is confusing and deprives search engines ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=7 Although CMS offer their users the advantage of web based editing interfaces, it turns out they also have drawbacks. The average open-source CMS has multiple editors and contributors, each intent on developing their own section of the code. While this results in robust development and testing, it also results in ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=6 One of the difficulties in developing websites is that many clients focus on the look and feel of their site without actually having any concrete ideas about what they intend to do for their content. It’s as though they are stuck in a “field of dreams” movie, where they ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=5 The initial Wordpress installs were basic, but clean and simple to use. They were an open source alternative to “open” systems that had opted to start charging fairly steep prices for the convenience of on-line blogs. Since then, there have been many, many revisions. Even so, most of the revised ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=4 This is an example of Word Press, installed to function as a blog / with a plug-in that give it some of the functions of a content management system. Word Press is only one of a large range of available systems, but whereas Moveable Type charges for multiple user installations, Word ... http://www.jbelldesigns.com/wp/?p=2