Sunday, Sep 5, 2010
I have been reading recently about developers giving realistic timescales to deliver projects in. I am well aware that developers can over and under estimate projects and also that you can spend a lot of time developing a project only for the idea to be changed just before the site is ready to be released. However with this in mind here is my Drupal migration timescale equation:
D + 12 + P + F = H ...
Sunday, Sep 5, 2010
I had a whale of a time trying to get some data posted onto Google Base, to enable the shop to sell items from Google Products. Although I am sure that popular e-commerce packages, and probably CMSs, all have uploader modules/components/plugins to do this for you, it is difficult trying to do a bulk export with xml so here is a quickie I wrote to help with getting the correct syntax for Google base using PHP’s XMLWriter tool: ...
Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010
I recently presented at the NetSquaredCamb Meetup group. Here are the presentation slides Open Source CMS for SMEs, Charities and NGOs.
Open source content management systems (OSCMS) are being utilised by a growing number of organisations, not only to manage their presence on the Internet, but also to assist in the running of their business processes and give workers flexible working arrangement. How can small to medium businesses, charities and non governmental organisations use OSCMS to drive efficiency and grow their business within the specific restraints over these businesses, with all resources; budget, time and knowledge being at a premium. ...
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009
I was recently asked the question of how applicable Drupal/Joomla are for a large site. Here is my answer:
I have attempted to break down your points to make answering some of your questions easier. I have been developing with Joomla and Drupal for over 2 years and have created around 20 joomla sites and 20 drupal sites, one of which is a 15 site multisite.
1. Complex(but user friendly) navigation/categorisation Obviously the flexibility afforded by Drupal is a contrast to the user friendly nature of Joomla. ...
Monday, Oct 19, 2009
Obviously, the question as to why people are using it is one that can be prompted with a number of answers, yet I will put my few points down:
The backend/administration is understandable This can be a big problem, especially when using CMS for no IT professional, which I guess I would class myself as. Joomla has a relatively smooth and easy learning curve to being able to publish articles and create users/emails all fro its backend. ...
Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
With regards to Joomla essential, much of what you need to do content writing and suchlike is alread built in. Fantastic. And for delivering content to users, either registered or public, is great.
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