Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 15, 2011
For the last month or so I have been trying to understand the open source cms Drupal7 and even build a site myself.
At the advertising agency where I work we just launched a Drupal based website for one of our clients, and sometimes it's just very nice to have an idea of what is going on behind the design of a website.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 09, 2011
For the last couple of months I tried to learn the CMS Drupal7, which I now can see, is an ever continuing process. Normally I consider myself an quick learner when it comes to techy stuff like getting around in CMS, but with Drupal7 I suddenly felt like a non techy person - reading tutorials, watching YouTube videos just to get started. To put it simple. Getting into Drupal7 as a Drupal beginner is not easy.
With Drupal7 I sometimes felt, and still do, as I had to start all over again. When I felt I could manage all the basics, new problems arised (e.g. How to manage the module views). But every start is hard and after spending quite some time setting up a pretty minimal website I am starting (slowly) to see the beauty in Drupal7.
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on May 20, 2011
Last week I was playing around with Facebook and Twitter login on my Joomla website. I managed to get it up and running with both features integrated, but I have to admit that it was kind of buggy since I was only able to login successfully every second time. So I decided to drop the Facebook login and went for the Twitter login only. And it works flawlessly.
So basically, if you need a Twitter login for your Joomla website I can recommend the MiniJomTweet component. The component includes a sign in module and an authentication plugin and all you need to do is to get an API key from Twitter. And the installation is easy.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Apr 30, 2011
The last couple of months I got a lot of spam comments on my website which is absolutely annoying. To avoid spam comments I decided to require that visitors need to login before the can comment on blog posts.
In Joomla you can choose to let your visitors login with the standard login features which normally function very well. But after some research I found a Joomla component named ITPConnect which integrates Facebook's connection with Joomla.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Nov 22, 2010
This could tend to be a little nerdy. For quite some time I have been looking for a drag n drop plugin for Joomla! CMS backend. And now I found it. This plugin allows you to drag table row items into the order you would like, then just click the save icon and your items are ordered. Cool!
Read more about the drag n drop plugin for Joomla! here and here. If you registrer on the developers website you can downlaod the plugin for free.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jul 23, 2010
The other day my browser landed on the website Gonelive.dk and if you are a web consultant or just like to discuss Danish websites and CMS you found the place. Gonelive.dk is all about interesting websites produced by various advertising and online agencies in Denmark. A great place to see and discuss Danish CMS based websites.
Visit Gonelive.dk here.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on May 24, 2010
Joomla! CMS has in many ways been outperformed by Wordpress and Drupal when it comes to the amount of minimal and aesthetic websites found on the internet. Joomla! CMS is mainly used for communities and website portals - where the website works as an information portal whereas you see many Wordpress based websites in categories like fashion, design and lifestyle magasins and blogs. I believe Joomla! has more functionality and outperforms Drupal if we are talking an user-friendly backend and easy learning curve, but when it comes to beautiful front end and design Joomla! seems to be the loser - because there is a not a lot of beautiful Joomla! based websites out there.
Designers and people working with aesthetic normally choose another platform than Joomla!. And I guess it is because you experience so many bad designed and "more is more" Joomla! websites out there. Keeping things simple and clean is not a first priority for many Joomla! programmers and designers - which is of course a big mistake.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Apr 03, 2010
During the last couple of days I worked on a fresh new look for my website. Again and again. I guess it is difficult to see big changes here, but actually I am quite happy with the result - because the new look is based on a completely new template framework named Zen Grid developed by Joomlabamboo. The Zen Grid template gives you a great flexibility and functionality when you work with Joomla and design websites.
The 960 CSS Grid framework Zen Grid is an elegant, easy to use template scaffold that gives you complete control over all aspects of layout and styling. Zen grid is the perfect starting point for developing your own Joomla template. And thats what I did really. The template gives you completely freedom to make what you want and like. Below I posted a picture of the Zen Grid template as it came - and a picture of my website - the result.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Jan 11, 2010
Choosing and finding a new CMS can, without the necessary research, be like finding a needle in a haystack. The need for CMS has, over the last decade, increased rapidly. And even for an expert it can be quite a challenge to choose the right one, because there are so many CMS' in the year of 2010.
Open Source CMS Vs. License CMS:
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Oct 27, 2009
Because of a forthcoming art exhibition at the media house "Ingeniøren" one of my most loyal clients (and girlfriend), Mette Dixen, wanted a new and more flexible website to present her paintings, resume etc.
I ended up using the designer friendly CMS Indexhibit as platform. Indexhibit is a web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
