Dreamweaver web building software or content management system (CMS)?

I’m never a fan of bloated web building software like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. Sure they are very easy to use for designing a web page. Very much like using Microsoft Word or Powerpoint, just create a box here and there and add in your content, pictures and whatever you need to create your web page. Where simplicity began is also where your nightmare to do something more complicated began. Read more »

Make your websites using Wordpress

Wordpress by far is the most popular software used for blogging. Almost every self-hosted website that was build for blogging uses Wordpress. It sheer versatility, ease of use, numerous themes and plugins available make it the choice script to install. In addition, if you decided to turn your Wordpress blog into a Content Management Style (CMS) type website with hierarchical structure, no problem, it could be done too. Read more »

Using Joomla 1.5 to make your website

The new Joomla version 1.5.x is a much improved version and recommendable for making your own website. It has overcome some of the limitations of the previous Joomla version 1.0. The interface is now much sleeker and easier to use and a couple of other improvements that make it easier for customizing it to your needs. Read more »

Web building using simple editors like Notepad or WordPad

There is no need to purchase a specialized web editor such as Office Frontpage, Dreamweaver, CoffeeCup HTML, etc. Here’s how one can save some precious dollars just using the Notepad or WordPad that came with your Windows OS. Read more »

Make a Joomla Website

Joomla is one of the most sophisticated CMS to make your own website with. It was branch off from the Open Source Mambo which it has based its coding. Joomla is getting more popular while Mambo usage is declining. The appearance of a Joomla website certainly catches the eye. With the many well designed Joomla templates around be it free or paid versions, you can get a well designed template to suite well with your website theme and stand out from the www crowd. Read more »

Making a Drupal Web Site

Drupal is like a jack of all trades. You could use it for setting a proper website with tier like structure for easy navigation, you could use it to set up a forum, or you just use it to set up a blogging site. It is so versatile that according to the Drupal website, it is use for: Read more »

Crashed my WordPress installation but finally got it fixed

I’m actually quite pleased with this WordPress software for my blog website. It is quite easy to use and has many features. With each upgrade, some new features were added. But my last upgrade caused some problems and took me a whole day to fix it. Read more »

Which CMS (Content Management System) to use for your website

There are so many CMS software around which you could use to make your website, from free to commercial versions. For corporate company, choosing a correct CMS should be carefully thought out as it involves the whole business process. For home users and small businesses, picking a CMS system shouldn’t be a painful process. Each CMS software is not the same, though in basic, they should deliver the content in a way that can be easily navigated for visitors dropping by your website. Read more »

Making web sites to compliment your business

Web sites are quite useful tools to help out in your work. Making one shouldn’t be too difficult. For the uninitiated, it is a complete a mystery to them. And that’s where the web designers charge an exorbitant fee for their services. And yes, it can get pretty technical if you want build a web site with all kinds of features and widgets. For the truly great looking sites out there, those are done by professionals and created by advertising houses whose clients has big budget for graphic design and marketing. For the rest of us, be it small businesses, home business, part-timers, and hobbyist, that kind of budget is definitely too heavy for our pockets. Read more »

Automated sitemap generator

Let’s face it, listing the web page URL line by line manually in the sitemap file is really tedious and a pain in the a**! What a way to build up your web site list for the robots to crawl your web pages! There must be a better way to do it, right? After all, what is the purpose of programming but to automate the process, yes? Read more »

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