Finally - a Simple CMS

CushyCMS Seems Ideal for Small Websites

One of the struggles I have had recently is determining the best way to allow my clients to update the content on their websites. Although there are a myriad of content managment systems to choose from, in my experience most of them are too complicated for the needs of the clients I normally work with.

I have personally become a convert to using WordPress as the backend for most sites that I design. By doing so, I can update most client sites from anywhere in the world through the WordPress web based interface. This is a great advantage as I am no longer tied to the various desktop software applications in my office in order to accomplish most updates.

With the exception of blog themes that I have done, none of the clients for whom I have setup WordPress as a CMS system have ever updated the content on their sites. Not a single one. This isn’t a client failing, but rather I feel that WordPress is just a bit too complex for most clients.

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May 15th, 2008 | Search Engine, Web Stuff, Website Design | Comment first »

How to Display a Featured Post

Add Emphasis to an Individual Post

This module displays information about a particular post that I want to display more prominently.

As you may have noticed, I have implemented a “Featured Post&” module on the top of my main blog page. This module displays information about a particular post that I want to display more prominently.

I have been considering adding a feature like this for some time, but until I received some inspiration from from Philip Moore over at Big Square Blog I really had no direction on how to begin.

Philip suggests using his technique to display a post on a static WordPress Page, but I opted to use it to display a feature post on my main index template page. I used the code Philip supplied and tweaked it for my own use. Philip’s basic code assumes that you are going to display the content of your most recent post. However, in my situation I don’t want to display the most recent post. Instead, I want to identify a particular post and have the content of this post displayed in the “Featured Post” area of my blog.

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December 29th, 2007 | Website Design, WordPress | Comment first »

When It Rains It Pours

The Rain is Your Friend!

rain.jpgIs it just me?

It seems that there is no middle ground. Either I have several projects under development at one time, or I have nothing to do. There never seems to be a middle ground. Busy, busy, busy. Or slow, slow slow.

When it rains, it pours. But in between, it gets awfully dry around here. How is it with your web design business?

Some months I get contacted several times a week about new projects, and convert about one third of those contacts into signed proposals and money in the bank. But some months go by without any inquiry whatsoever. I am in the middle of one of those droughts at the moment. Tick tock, tick tock.

What do the rest of you do to keep busy during these slow times?

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October 22nd, 2007 | Website Design | 4 comments

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