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Chooosing A CMS or Blog Platform February 24, 2006

Choosing a CMS or blog platform is an important process. At the time of this writing, we are only focusing on Blogger, WordPress, Drupal and TextPattern. Which package you choose depends on a number of factors:

Technical knowledge. If you have very little technical knowledge and have no techie on staff, you want to stay away from Drupal. It’s a powerful package, especially for online community building, but there’s a steep learning curve. WordPress is almost as powerful, especially with all the plugins and equal community support, and is super-simple to install. TextPattern is pretty easy as well. Blogger requires …

What is a CMS?

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A CMS (Content Management System) is a package of software that allows webmasters, writers/ bloggers, and project managers write and manage web pages. Weblogs (blogs, online diaries, journals) use a toned-down form of CMS, which is typically referred to as a blogging platform. This site focuses mostly on the latter (OpenSource and free at present). But if the demand is there, we may present tutorials on some higher-end free CMSes.

There are predominantly two types of blog platforms. The first type generates static HTML pages, and the URLs typically end in “.html”. The second type is dynamically generated when a website …

Welcome to CodeProfessor

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CodeProfessor is a project of Chameleon Integration. We’re not really open for business just yet, but check back soon for tutorials on photoshop, illustrator, customizing your blog platform (themes, plugins), CSS (Cascading Stylesheets), and general website-related design and coding.

If you are looking for hardcore coding/ programming in PHP, Perl, mySQL, XML, as well as discussions on web metrics/ analytics, geocoding, and more, please visit WebGuru.

To clarify, while we may discuss an existing blog platform plugin here, we’ll show you how to write new plugins over at WebGuru. This site tries to stay focused on light coding for …