You have a working Drupal 6 installation. You have some understanding of how to administer the site and add content. But, you would like to know how people do some interesting things with their Drupal sites that you can’t quite figure out. Maybe that’s adding images, or slide shows or photo galleries. Maybe that’s pulling [...]

Joomla vs. Drupal In the world of Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS), there are currently two big names. Well, actually three but two are forks of the same original. Those programs are Joomla and Drupal. Joomla is a recent fork of Mambo and currently offer the (nearly) same features. There’s a whole lot of [...]

A KISS in time I’m a firm believer in the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle. With a content management system (CMS) that means avoiding feature-itis and looking for the simplest system that will get the job done. There is a simple equation to consider. More features = more complexity. The corollary to that is [...]

Wouldn’t we all like to know the reasons why? I can’t answer life’s big questions but I can point out the three major advantages of a CMS: increased control of your site, reduced maintenance costs and better marketing results.

One of the oft mentioned advantages of a CMS is the ability to assign user/authoring/editing/administration privileges. The administrator sits at the top of the heap, able to completely control the site and its users. At the bottom are users who can only read content. In between people get varying degrees of control over what happens [...]

I just updated (shameless plug) my portfolio page. Of the 20 sites that have been added to or revised in the last two months, 17 are built using end-user updatable content management systems of some kind. Since two sites have only one page each, it didn’t seem worth the extra effort to stuff it into [...]