Category Archive: Blogging Platforms
August 26, 2010 - 5 CommentsBlogging Platforms,Web Apps,Web Design
Don't mistake Posterous as another micro-blogging service, it is much, much bigger than that. There are no limits to what you can do with it and there are seemingly no limits to what you can post to it – photos (auto resizing), audio files and links, documents and video (auto conversion)… You could use it [...]
July 13, 2010 - 32 CommentsAjax,Application,Blogging Platforms,CMS (Content Management),CSS,Cheat Sheets,Darn Good Read,Ebook,Javascript,Web Apps,Web Design
A few months ago we published a popular article called 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books, and the positive response we received from our readers was phenomenal. But, just as there is with most things, there is always room for improvement. With the help of readers and authors we have discovered another 9 [...]
July 8, 2010 - 10 CommentsBlogging Platforms,Web Apps,Web Design
When I sat down to write this post, my first intention was to write about minimal design and how popular they have become over the last few years. Of course, I couldn’t do that without listing some clever examples. But while I was on the hunt for what to include in that list I got [...]
April 8, 2010 - 29 CommentsBlogging Platforms,Bookmarklets,Social Bookmark,Web Design,Wordpress
One of the most popular support emails that we receive from readers and bloggers is how do we display and were do we get the social bookmarking widgets that you can see within our posts. For most the answer will probably be obvious and simple (think of this page as your one-stop-shop for sharing widgets [...]
April 5, 2010 - 32 CommentsBlogging Platforms,CMS (Content Management),Tutorial,Web Design,Wordpress
The growth and popularity of Wordpress continues to spiral to a seemingly endless end. It continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but in the hands of the huge WP community, it might just be.
October 5, 2009 - 64 CommentsBlogger,Blogging Platforms,Popular,Web Design
Blogger may not be the first blogging platform you would choose, it does have a reputation of being lacklustre, featureless and the bog standard skins have the look and feel of a site that was designed five years ago. That reputation is maybe a little bit exaggerated, but really, when was the last time you had a look at Blogger?
April 2, 2009 - 34 CommentsBlogging Platforms,CMS (Content Management),Joomla
Joomla, the free open source CMS, is still number one when it comes to building a big, robust and professional websites (WP must be catching up quickly with its great progress). It has a pretty solid reputation as a CMS. The only downside, the community never really had a great resource of free templates, until now.
May 18, 2008 - 15 CommentsBlogging Platforms,CMS (Content Management),Drupal
I love Drupal, It is a very powerful CMS that is easy to use and configure. Very little programming knowledge is needed, but will still accomplish so much. If there is anyone that hasn’t used Drupal before, I would definetly recommend it, it is a major step up from WordPress. Below are ten resources to [...]
February 3, 2008 - 42 CommentsBlogging Platforms,CMS (Content Management),Web Apps
The obvious choice for Number 1 is WordPress, it is the most versatile and flexible platform that I have come across. But, that is my opinion, WordPress seems to fit my needs 9 times out of ten. Our needs and that of our clients are different, don’t get me wrong I am not saying that [...]











