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 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 Software on Oct 10, 2010
Inspired by a blog post on Joomlabamboo I thought I would share my knowledge when it comes to updating a Joomla! website. Back in 2007 when I first started out with Joomla! CMS I did not know you had to update a Joomla! website 10 (or more) times a year due to security fixes etc.
In the beginning I just ignored the small updates, but as one of my friends Joomla! website got hacked I began updating my sites immediately when an update was released. Initially I used the FTP client Transmit - and updated the website manually by replacing and adding files in different folders. A really long updating proces which, if I was fast, took me more than 20 minutes per site.
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 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.
Posted by: Søren
in Uncategorized on Sep 15, 2009
Open source software is a really really great thing I think. I have built some websites (And they all look alike:-)) after all using open source software. When I am seeking inspiration on the internet I always visit open source platforms like www.drupal.org, www.joomla.org, www.wordpress.org and www.indexhibit.org.
I have never made a website in www.indexhibit.org, but I think the CMS look promising if you take a look on their website. After checking out some cool websites made with indexhibit a funny thought struck me. Why do all graphic designers think like each other? Browsing the site showcase on indexhibit I realized that their all made by someone within the graphic design business.
Posted by: Søren
in Music on Sep 06, 2009
Discogs is one of my favourite websites. If you are a music nerd or just want to track down some information about a musician Discogs.com is the website to visit. Discogs.com is a music website where you can find information about different musicians, music labels etc. The websites database is user driven and you can also rate your favourite tracks and add vinyl/cd's to your music collection.
Discogs describes themselves as a community-built database of music information. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced. It's getting closer every day. Go visit Discogs here.
