WordPress is the most popular CMS currently, WordPress focused entries garner more attention then other topics. Even though we like WordPress a lot or not, it's always good to know what other options there are out there. I chose some of the most known one next to WordPress to the most obscure ones. Varying form flat files to full mySQL database. Ones that require almost no … [Read more...]
Three WordPress alternatives for your blog
I wasn't what you would call an "early adopter" of Wordpress. In fact, I sometimes feel like I was one of the last to make the switch from Movable Type, which I loved and recommended to anyone who asked me what a blog was (yes, those were the days). Today, of course, over 90% of the work I do is on Wordpress- and I've fully embraced this powerful publishing system. But there … [Read more...]
Five things that rock in WordPress 2.8
Before anything else: as of today, Wordpress 2.8 is in beta. That means that it's not a stable release yet, and therefore not appropriate to use for your important blogs. Things might be buggy. Things might stop working. So unless you like living on the edge, install 2.8 only to play around with- or, if you're a developer, for testing your new themes and plugins. That said, … [Read more...]
Five Tools for Better Blogging
Blogging is, at its heart, writing- and the beauty of writing is that it can be done with the most basic of tools: a pen and a piece of paper- and having something to say in the first place, of course. Thanks to the awesomeness of technology, however, we have a lot of writing tools- a lot of blogging tools- at our disposal these days. These are tools that make the business … [Read more...]
Writing RSS-Reader Friendly Posts
I've mentioned before how much I depend on and love RSS feeds. Google Reader is one of those tabs I always have open in Firefox. And with literally hundreds of posts to look through, I'm inevitably drawn to those that look interesting- by that, I'm not just talking about a catchy title (although that always helps!)- I mean posts that are formatted well. The thing is, … [Read more...]
