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Mid April CMS Website Special

Today I am releasing a new website special for Mid April. This special is Ideal for anyone needing a website or specifically wanting a Content Management System for their business, so you can make your own changes and add new pages when needed without paying extra fees. 5 Page CMS website incl. 12 mths hosting & 12 months SEO R2000.00 MID APRIL SPECIAL (Valid Until 30 April)  5 Page CMS Special includes: 5 Pages Home Page Slider Gallery Enquiry Form Free .co.za domain 12 months free hosting (valued at R700.00) 12 months free SEO (valued at R3600.00) DVD tutorial to…

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Building websites in Joomla

In the last post on open source Content Management Systems, I will tackle Joomla. Joomla was part of the original Mambo and has not looked back after that. I used Joomla when I first started using Content Management Systems. What is Joomla? Joomla is an open source Content Management System which uses PHP and MYSQL. Advantages of Designing a website in Joomla Easy Set Up – Easy to install and configure Admin out of the box – user management, search, polls etc. Lots of plugins – There are over 10 000 extensions in the extension directory. Joomla is easy to…

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Building websites with WordPress

In this second post we will be looking at another content management system, WordPress. WordPress is one of the most widely used content management systems. Whether you use WordPress as a blog or a content management system, one is for sure, its really easy to use for the end user. I use WordPress alot when building simple and basic websites, due to its simplicity for the end user. There are obviously some pros and cons to using WordPress and I am going to dive into them in detail later. What is WordPress? Wordpress is an open source blogging tool and…

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Designing websites in Drupal

In the next series of blog posts, I will going through the different content management systems (CMS) that I use, and what the pros and cons are on each. Today, I will be focusing on the Big Daddy of all open source content management systems – Drupal. What is Drupal? Drupal is a content management system that allows the end user the option of making changes to their website without having to know any coding languages. Drupal also consists of thousands of add-ons or modules which allow you to extend your website and make it more dynamic. Advantages Open Source…

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Multiple Image Upload in Drupal

The one draw back I have always found when designing and implementing galleries in Drupal 7 is the option to upload multiple images at once. When I used Drupal 6 I always used Image FUpload but found it to be buggy. Also there is currently no release for Drupal 7 which is somewhat disappointing. Having designed a lot of WordPress sites, I was hoping to find the option for uploading more than one image at a time, especially when a lot of galleries are more than 5 images, the Nextgen Gallery does this beautifully. This can be quite tiresome if you…

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WordPress vs Drupal as a blog

I use CMS’s and blogs on a daily basis. My favourite CMS is most definitely Drupal, but i do find there built in blog lagging behind WordPress. WordPress out of the box is brilliant and it is so easy to use for the novice who doesnt have any technical knowledge. Being a Web Developer/ Designer, i find it extremely important that the end user (client) will be able to navigate and update their website easily and without my hassle. I find the backend of Drupal quite confusing for the end user and a number of clients have complained how difficult…

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