Category Archives: Tools & Applications

Your In-House Content Management System Is A Con

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It’s a throw back to the days when open source wasn’t a big deal, and content management systems were rare. You were ahead of the game as a web designer or developer if you could offer content management to clients. […]

Styling JomSocial – A Blank Canvas Template

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One of my long term freelance gigs has involved a lot of work in recent months with the JomSocial plugin for Joomla! It adds Facebook style functionality to a Joomla! site, allowing users to create profiles, upload content, swap messages […]

3 WordPress Plugins You’d Be Crazy Not To Use

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There’s hundreds of plugins out there to increase the functionality of WordPress. Some of them are must-haves for any WordPress site, others are site-specific and cover functions that I need on that site but wouldn’t incorporate into all my website […]

One Joomla! Template, Unlimited Stylesheet Options

It took me a while to like Joomla!. It’s not the most immediately welcoming of content management systems either in its user interface or to design and style. I’ve worked with it for a while now and it’s definitely grown […]

Two Great Apps That Help Your Network

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The continual development of new applications for web services is one of the best things about the online community. These applications or extensions massively increase the function and usability of services. Some of them are simple, some of them seem […]