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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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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 Shortcuts that I use

Wordpress Shortcuts are great. They save you alot of time in WordPress. When adding content to a site, things can be done at a rapid speed without having to search around the WYSIWYG editor for the correct button. Here are the list of WordPress Shortcuts I use. For more information go to WordPress Shortcuts original post List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t Redo: CTRL+y Strikethrough: Alt+SHIFT+d Undo: CTRL+z Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b Code: Alt+SHIFT+c Insert date/time: Alt+SHIFT+s Insert IMG URL: ALT-SHIFT-m Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i Line Break: SHIFT+Enter Link:…

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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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Create a blog to get maximum exposure

One of the things i have noticed in the last couple of months, on most search engine or SEO news websites is the need for everyone with a website to create a blog. I noticed also on a lot of you tube videos with Matt Cutts, is he states that it is a great way to boost your search engine rankings as well as gain valuable traffic. What i have been doing lately is going to other like minded sites and making useful comments on their sites, this attracts other people to your blog. On most blogs they will ask…

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