Category Archives: Content Management

Open Source Content Management Systems for a Community Website

May 24, 2006 – 12:00 pm

I have a couple projects on my plate that call for more than a personal publishing platform like WordPress, so I’m evaluating open-source web content management systems. This white paper from Seth Gottlieb of Optaros is invaluable in getting oriented in that space.
These are the basic requirements for the first project, a community website with […]

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Permalinks as Part of the UI of a Website

May 12, 2006 – 1:20 pm

I’m late to this particular usability party, but I just realized in converting to WordPress that permalinks are part of the user interface of a website. It didn’t initially seem problematic to me to mindlessly stick “.html” as the suffix to every WordPress permalink so as to get a little backward compatibility with my Blogger […]

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WordPress.com Doesn’t Impress.Me

January 2, 2006 – 2:50 pm

Since Blogger ate half my custom-built blog template yesterday and I hadn’t saved an updated copy, I decided I might as well look at other options since I’m in for a lot of work anyway.I would feel depressed about the work I lost except that my intention with regard to blogging, at least on this […]

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