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 This website on Jan 09, 2011
No one doubt the fact that mobile devices (especially smartphones) will play a dominating and leading role in consumer behavior in the coming years. An example. Every second sold mobile phone in Denmark is a smartphone. An online trend which the majority of the Danish media companies like Politiken, Berlingske Media, Børsen etc.have been making use of years ago. They have all optimized their websites for mobile devices, iPhone and recently iPad. And in a short while we will see not only iPhone apps, but also iPad apps coming out.
Personally I browse a lot of websites from my sofa on my iPhone and if possibly I try to bookmark every iPhone optimized site I find interesting. As it is today I have not found a ton of iPhone optimized websites. But it will change quickly according to the consumers mobile habits. Making your website look good on mobile platforms will be more important each day and in 2011 we will see a lot more mobile websites.
