April 25, 2012
Whether you’re setting up a corporate website, a standard blog or just want to announce your presence on the web, the age of hand-coding HTML pages and CSS is long behind us. These days all it takes is to purchase hosting and install a content management system (CMS) and within minutes you can have a website that looks highly polished, displaying the very content that you wish to share with the world.
January 31, 2012
Every day, more and more people are building their own websites and leading their own communities. Soon, owning a website will be akin to owning a car or a house. If you’re looking to start a website of your very own but don’t have much technological knowledge or experience, your best bet would be to get familiar with content management systems, or CMS’s.
February 28, 2011
Last week I took you on a walkthrough of Zenphoto, a free and highly extensible self-hosted photo gallery that should not be overlooked if you’ve got the photoblog bug. This week I’m going to show you how to get even more out of your gallery installation with the Zenpage CMS plugin. Whilst Zenphoto at first [...]
January 31, 2011
I’ve been on the hunt for a good, lightweight yet powerful photo blog engine for my website for a long while now. The other day I happened upon Pixelpost and it seems to have answered the call of duty. If you’ve got some free webspace, a spare MySQL database and a burning desire to share [...]
September 13, 2010
Have you ever wanted to create your own website, but not confident that you have the skills to create one yourself? MakeUseOf is proud to announce The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Joomla which is now available to download for free along with our other PDF guides. Thanks to this 40+ page guide, you can create [...]
August 19, 2010
For most bloggers today, the WordPress platform is king of the hill when it comes to starting a new blog. Even if many new bloggers might need some help with installing their first WordPress blog, configuring the appearance of a WordPress blog and posting updates is really easy. Many people just stick with WordPress and [...]
June 10, 2010
For years I have been in love with WordPress as a blogging platform and a CMS (content management system) because it makes updating the content as simple as using a word processor. That’s the point of a CMS right? A CMS gives a website designer the ability to design a site and then just show [...]
May 26, 2010
I have to admit, I love starting and operating small, informational websites. These are web pages and domains that are set up to serve one simple purpose – that is to provide an informational service or answer a question. These are small, simple websites that have under 10 pages, and preferably a side menu, a [...]
April 15, 2010
WordPress is an interesting animal! It started out as a basic blogging platform and has grown since then. I actually ran across it by accident poking around in cPanel a long time ago. Ever since that day, I’ve been in love! Like I said, WordPress began as a simple content management system for bloggers. It was pretty light, fairly [...]
March 20, 2010
I was recently tasked with building a Intranet site for my day job. They had looked to outsource the work at first and then came back to me as the $20,000 to $50,000 quotes were not too enticing to them. I decided to look for an open source solution. I tried many solutions that did [...]
