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- Jeermid
Could anyone recommend a good Content Management System for maintaining a GRAPHIC DESIGN blog specifically... A blog similar to www.designobserver.org Thank you
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Wordpress?
- Jeermid0
Cool... will wordpress allow me to customise its layout... get in there and move around modules and apply custom code
- wordpress allows you to customize everything and have loads of plugins, a bit hard at the beginning to tweak templateskodap
- but if you get used to its structure, its pretty much expandablekodap
- yet allows you to keep things clean and straightkodap
- If you have ever been exposed to a PHP or template site driven by includes, it will make a lot of sense from the get-go.NONEIS
- kodap0
have you tried http://www.qbn.com/filter/all/pu…
- Jeermid0
Agh ha... good idea.. thank you
- Nathan_Adams0
Textpattern isn't too bad.
It still drives me nuts though that there is no perfect CMS - despite there being thousands of different ones. I swear one day I'm just going to have to learn PHP and make my own.
- I used textpattern for the longest time, and recently switched over to WP just because of the community and developers behind it. It felt like Textpattern wasn't progressing.silentseven
- The community is good for WP, yes. And development is much more active. I'll give them that.Nathan_Adams
- But it depends on the site, and what you need to do. The last TXP site I did just couldn't be done easily with WPNathan_Adams
- Oh ya that's totally true. I love TXP i just wish the development of it was progressing at the speed of WPsilentseven
- silentseven0
yes WP is your best bet like HeavyT said Joomla, drupal, all the above have such steep learning curves. Check out this theme (http://quommunication.com/) and modify it if you are trying to do a news style blog.
- airey0
joomla / mamo blows harder than you're mum on a weekend bender.
if it's just a blog / small site then wordpress will be the shit for you.
there's a lot of good template themes to use as a basis for modifying - both commercial and free. from experience, pony up a few buck for a commercial one. some freebies i've used aren't great to expand or alter.
start here:
• http://themeforest.net/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…
• http://quommunication.com/and many more.
- MrWhite0
- that looks really fucking cool!sublocked
- Cushy is fantastic, but useless for blogging. I've hooked up a few client sites for basic edits. Took minutes to set up!Nathan_Adams
- matt310
if it is a blog you are doing i would go wordpress for sure.