Good stuff and some very helpful suggestions on twisting Wordpress a little on its head, and making it look like the CMS that it really is.
10 Things You Should Know about WordPress 2.0
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Like Mitch I too am finding Wordpress hacking becoming a second job. The more I dig into the program the more I like it. It doesn’t do everything, hence avoiding the complexity of more full featured tools like Drupal. But it is certainly much more than a blogging program — its really a content management solution. And with plug-ins you can do a lot of cool things. I really like the Pop-up image gallery from Yellow Swordfish:
I do love CSS, and the flexibility that you get from the no-table, fully CSS positioning and formatting approach. But it can also be a huge pain in the real world. Maybe its just me, but I’ll have the perfect layout working on multiple browsers. And then one day — bam! — some small edit or content addition messes the whole thing up. Of course I often don’t see the problem, but get a message from a staff member who is using a page on our web site and wonders why the menu is all by itself at the bottom of the screen — argh!
Looking here, you’d think I haven’t been blogging at all! But no, I’m just blogging in some other spaces.
One project I’ve been working on is a web site redesign process for the Drama School. I’ve set up a project blog for that, and have a number of posts there. Here’s the link.
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