Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
So I’ve been doing some work with Drupal in preparation for teaching a class. To really get the hang of how Drupal works as a content management system, I’m test rebuilding a public library website in Drupal. Just like I was test rebuilding the same site in Wordpress.
Some pieces of content are really easy to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
After a recent post about using Wordpress as a CMS, Darren commented and asked EXACTLY how I was doing this. My test site isn’t publicly available. So the best I can do is give a screenshot play by play of what I’m doing.
Create Link Categories for the way you want to organize your databases. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
Before leaving on vacation and having to deal with Ike, I’d been working on a project to test convert a website to Wordpress as a content management system. During this process a couple of folks really helped me out. So I’d like to acknowledge them and say a big THANKS. Without their help I would [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
Several people have emailed regarding the state of myself, family, and library after Ike. I’m hoping that by posting here I might alleviate people’s worries.
My husband and I are fine. We were on vacation when Ike hit.
Our house has minimal damage - 6-8 shingles missing, fence down on one side, and lots of tree debris [...]
Posted in open source software on Sep 4th, 2008 8 Comments »
I’ve been working on putting together information about how to use Wordpress as a content management system. I first got interested in this topic while I was working on the blogging book. Partly because of libraries like Lamson Library at Plymouth State and Cook Memorial Library both who use Scriblio which is based on Wordpress.
Now [...]
