After all my research on Thesis, I finally found one post that doesn’t glow with kudos. Raju of Technically Personal feels that Thesis is way over-hyped for what it is. He contends that you can find free themes that may suit your intended purposes equal to or better. Three weeks after my purchase, I have [...] Read more »
Creating a Website with WordPress
One of my top goals when I returned from my vacation was to crack open this book and take a shot at building my first WordPress theme. I tried to follow the author’s step-by-step instructions but got totally confused and frustrated. This section is not for the complete WordPress novice, especially if they don’t know [...] Read more »
Xoops
Xoops was actually my favorite out of the three programs. They have some really cool plugins. My biggest problem with Xoops was the ability to customize the skin. After searching through their forum, I was able to figure out how to upload my logo. At the time, I had no knowledge of CMS and very [...] Read more »
Drupal
Drupal is a very good program on the surface. It offers clean looking theme templates and a variety of plugins. However, it was buggy right from the start, especially after you install a few plugins. Some of these plugins require you to build tables in MySQL. I found this out the hard way and was [...] Read more »
Geeklog
Oliver asked me to clarify why I gave Geeklog, Drupal, and Xoops a poor rating in my prior posts. I’ll start with Geeklog, listing the positives as well as the negatives. I liked Geeklog’s layout. For one, I could post static articles without having to install a plugin. Geeklog offers hundreds of plugins that give [...] Read more »
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