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• 5.5.07 Manually Ordering Wordpress Posts posted in Web Design

  James Angus has put together a Wordpress plugin that allows for the manual ordering of posts in a category. This is awesome for creating a CMS from Wordpress, especially if you want to create a static homepage that can be managed by a client. Check it out at http://orderposts.ucantblamem.com.

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• 1.7.07 Another look at ModX posted in Web Design

  I’m working on a CSS-debugging article, but in the meantime I thought I’d share a more sober look at the ModX CMS. I took a chance and used it to put together a static site AND a blog site for a client who needed both. I wanted a consistent login and editing […]

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• 1.1.07 ModX Review posted in Web Design

  I always promise a post (I said I’d write a short TextMate tutorial), and then find something terribly exciting to write about before I get the intended post finished. And this one is exciting. If you’re using Joomla/Mambo and looking for an XHTML/CSS solution, read on. I had initially passed over the ModX CMS […]

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• 12.18.06 Psuedo-static Homepages in Wordpress posted in Web Design

  I use Wordpress for a lot of my smaller client sites. It actually makes a decent CMS with a little hacking. It defaults to a blog style home page, but it’s simple to create a static page, old school style. However, I’ve had several clients lately that love the idea of […]

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• 12.8.06 Review: Expanse CMS 1.3 posted in Web Design

  I reviewed Expanse a while back and had a few critical things to say, but a lot of hope for the future. Nate Cavanaugh, a developer of Expanse read the review and took to heart a few of my concerns. Seriously. Version 1.3 made some of the changes that I and […]

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• 10.6.06 Dipping my toes in RoR posted in Geekery

  Okay, this is another uber-geeky post, but I promise I’ll get back to some design related topics over the weekend… this is, after all, supposed to be a geek/design blog. I signed up for a year of TextDrive yesterday. My primary motivation being to get my feet wet with Ruby on Rails. I’ve […]

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• 8.27.06 An Interim Post posted in Random Thoughts, General

  Whilst I while away a Sunday morning trying to get motivated to get over to the office to find my USB cable and put together a photo montage of my trip, I thought I’d make an interim post just to keep everyone on their toes. First things first, everybody should know about the secret cappucino […]

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• 8.24.06 Initial Expanse Review posted in Web Design

  Alright, I bought a copy of Expanse to run on my test server. I have some comments (yes, I’ll post to the forum as well…). These pertain to using Expanse as a general CMS for a client site, and may not apply to using it for it’s apparent intended purpose (by artists, […]

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• 8.24.06 A quick one posted in Geekery, Random Thoughts

  I’m very intrigued by Expanse, a new CMS on the market that seems to promise standards based content management with AJAX functionality. It may be a dream come true for my clients. It looks to have all of the simplicity of Wordpress with more out-of-the-box functionality. I don’t think it will […]

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• 8.22.06 Choosing an appropriate CMS posted in Web Design

  Here’s a quick soliloquy on the virtues and values of various open-source CMS software packages, along with their downsides. This is not intended as a final say, or a one-size-fits-all guide to CMS’s. This is simply my experience and my personal choices. But I was explaining them to someone else the […]

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