Moving to WordPress
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I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter sweet relationship, but in general I’ve been pleased. In those two years, WordPress as a product has rocketed past Drupal, and feels much more mature. While Drupal 7 should level the field a bit, it’s a ways away and WordPress 3.0 is already here.
Getting Started With Drupal
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Drupal is a very powerful content management solution. It powers this website as well as zoopframework.com. Drupal is a relatively easy to use system, but there are a few key concepts that you really need to understand in getting started. I often find that webcasts are fantastic resources for instruction. I recently helped a non-techie friend setup a drupal site and was suprised at how many (really bad) drupal videos existed online. I have compiled some of the better ones here as a resource and guide to getting started with Drupal.
I focused on getting started with Drupal, assuming you have already installed Drupal. I’ll create a separate post on installing Drupal or use Justin Hileman’s excellent guide.
Best Drupal Themes
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In my opinion Drupal is the best CMS available. It is full featured, scalable, and easy to use. Due to how powerful it is and how large the community is, Drupal can be a bit overwhelming to start. I’ve compiled a list of the best themes available. I’ve only listed themes available for Drupal 6 (though some also work with 5.x and 4.x). Thumbnails are provided by the theme designers.
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Conclusion of the Blog-a-thon
Today marks the last post of my blog-a-thon. It has been a learning and growing experience. I have blogged more time in the past 4 weeks as I did the prior 52. It was challenging and rewarding. Read more
Migrating to Feedburner
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I’ve made the decision to take control of my feeds. I want to know how many users are reading my blog via sydication so I’ve decided to move to feedburner. The migration will be seemless for all readers. Additionally I’ll be able to provide syndication via email as well. Read more
How I Blog
Not surprisingly, given my semi random content, I arrive at my posts a few different ways.
1. I better write this down or I’ll never remember it
These posts are the result of a rather frustrating night of problem solving. After reading tons of documentation and googling around, reading forums and discussing on IRC I finally got it working. Now I better write it down so I know how to do it next time. Read more
My Own Private Blogathon
Someone once said a goal is a dream until you write it down … in your blog and tell the world about it.
In an effort to focus on blogging a bit more frequently I have decided to start a blogathon beginning today. I will write a post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next four weeks. I think this rate will permit me to continue to keep quality posts, while increasing the frequency and consequently the quantity. As usual my posts can be expected to be quite random, perhaps more so than ever. This is a major undertaking for me as currently I have been posting about once a month since I started this blog. The goal here is to embark on a blogging journey and hopefully create some great content along the way.
The whole idea for this came from noticing that Seth Godin writes a daily blog. Seth has great content and to produce quality content that often requires true skill.. Of course that’s his day job and he writes one of the most popular blogs on the web. I hope you will join me in the journey here and pass along the good word.
It’s all starting with this post. Stay tuned for another great post on Wednesday!
Featured in CIO Magazine!
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I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and discovering that my blog, this very blog that you are currently reading is one of two blogs featured this month. I am humbled and honored to be mentioned and included with such great peers. To all my new readers I look forward to connecting with you via Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out cio.com for more great content.
