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There are 2 CMS’s that come to mind when i think of the beginning of 2011.

Joomla 1.6

Joomla has just released their stable version of Joomla 1.6.  Their major improvement is the new ACL.  This major improvement in user/member management will have developers happy that they will no longer have to hack the core of Joomla to make these kind of changes.

Like any ACL system it is based on

• actions
  What can someone do e.g. read, edit, install
• assets
  What can you do it on e.g. News category
• users
  Who can do it e.g. Peter, Paul, Mary

Both assets and users can be grouped together to make things easier to set things up for your web site. Continue Reading

Whether you are starting a new WordPress blog or  already have one, either way this post should be very helpful in finding some great plugin’s to help make your WordPress blog function better, faster, and prettier.

1.  Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus is a great tool for displaying any of your pictures within your blog in a Lightbox.  You get about 15 different styles to choose from, and 2 different transitions.  You can also change the opacity of the overlay that is applied behind your lightbox.

Not only can you use the lightbox for individual images in your blog but you can also have slideshows, and galleries (Must use WP Gallery plugin).  Visit the plugin’s site.

2. cforms

Ever want to have a form on your site for contact, or any other reason?   Hate plugin forms that have no versitality?  With cforms it is simple and easy to style and create multiple  Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.  cforms will then Email you with the end-user’s inputted data.

cforms has a place to edit CSS and also an API for building dynamic forms. You can basically do anything you want with it, if you know enough!   If you are looking for a form choose cforms, don’t even bother with the rest.  View the plugin’s site. Continue Reading

For the last few years now everyone who wants a new site or a site redesign, often wants to have some kind of content management system in the backend.  Mostly the client wants to be able to update content whenever they want and not have to wait or pay for a developer/company to do this for them.  The client from what I have seen never has a plan set up for this updating.  Usually they will do themselves, which is fine if they where a marketer, and web developer all in one. I believe to run a website and add content you must possess both talents when it comes to a business.  Most clients do not or will not spend the money for someone who is proficient in both.  So when this happens, sites go to crap.

Although adding a CMS to a site is not the most involved process, but it will increase a clients cost but usually the convienence and money saved in the long run, out ways the price. Continue Reading

I know in a previous post, I mentioned how active Kentico is in trying to help you out with issues, even though it may take a day or so.  I am going to over react a bit and say I take all that back.

I understand the need to charge for support at some points but I also believe that you should only charge support if you have a great deal of knowledge base, FAQ’s, and troubleshooting information easily found at the tips of someones finger tips.  This is not saying that Kentico doesn’t have a bunch of documentation, but the quality of the support documents is low and to search for anything specific is a nightmare on Kentico’s Development site.   Continue Reading