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Joomla! Explained and Why Writing a Book is So Damn Hard

Juli 25, 2011   CMS Expert   No comments

Phew. Joomla! Explained is finally out.

If you’ve written a book, you know how I feel. Phrases like “piece of cake” and “walk in the park” aren’t involved.
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Some Personal and Business Updates

Mai 27, 2011   CMS Expert   No comments

2011 is turning out to be a pretty busy year and I’ve got some updates to mention in just about every area of my life.
Why the Updates?

It all starts from the same point: we’re having a second…

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Any good CRMs or ERPs for Online Businesses?

April 11, 2011   CMS Expert   No comments

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been trying to get a better handle on our business over at OSTraining.com. Since the launch early last years, things have been growing faster than my ability to…

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The Open Source Wall Revisited: Drupal and Commercial Modules

Januar 25, 2011   CMS Expert   No comments

I’ve been on record here saying that Open Source project should focus on learning from one another rather than competing.

So it’s been interesting to see the Drupal community talking about…

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New Years Resolution Challenge (with thanks to Mos Def)

Januar 07, 2011   CMS Expert   No comments

“Listen.. people be askin me all the time,
Yo Mos, what’s gettin ready to happen with Hip-Hop?”
(Where do you think Hip-Hop is goin?)
I tell em, “You know what’s gonna happen with Hip-Hop?
Whatever’s…

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10 Reasons Other Open Source Projects Are Not Your Enemy

Dezember 28, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This post has been a long time coming … like almost everything on my blog these days :)

It’s a rant of sorts and a little over the top, but it sums up what I’ve been thinking for a while.

During…

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The Pros and Cons of Distributions

Oktober 21, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

It’s been far too long since I blogged.

I’ve got a few good excuses such as a baby, a business, a book, the OSM board and almost weekly trips around the U.S. However, I’ve also got a few good topics…

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Sponsored Review of College Website

August 30, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

It looks like online colleges are a hot niche in SEO for 2010. These for-profit colleges like Kaplan and the University of Phoenix need to keep churning out 1000s of new students each month and so…

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Why We Always Give Refunds

August 06, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This might be the most expensive blog post I’ve ever written, but here goes …

This week I was talking to a developer who sells open source products and their attitude was that they fight even…

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Joomla Usability Project Starts to Roll

Juli 27, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

A few weeks back I made a deliberately provocative post entitled “Even Wordpress Usability Sucks” and ended with the suggestion that Joomla form a Usability team. It looks like one is starting to…

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Automatic Notifications of Errors on Your Joomla Site

Juli 14, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

Wonderfully smart readers … I need to pick your brains.

We’ve been using Pingdom for years to track our sites. I love it. When sites go down it sends out an automatic email, SMS and even a message…

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We’re Bringing Joomla and Drupal to Boston

Juli 13, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

We’ve been to over 50 cities in North America from Anchorage in Alaska to Miami in Florida.

There aren’t many places left on the list of place we’d like to teach. There’s Hawaii of course (we very…

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Your Thoughts on Joomla Security Extensions?

Juni 30, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

One of my Joomla clients has been hacked by a phishing scheme and it has been a major pain to cleanup. Besides being behind a couple versions in their Joomla, there are multiple third party…

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Even WordPress Usability Sucks

Juni 28, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

Out of all the blog posts I’ve read this year, one has stuck in my mind more than any other: Why [the] open source crowd should stop crowing about Ning’s problems. He takes on Drupal and KickApps for…

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Apologies for the Blogging Absence

Juni 24, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

My apologies for the lack of blog posts here over the last few months.

Between the Open Source Matters board and getting a new company off the ground with Open Source Training it’s been a hectic…

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Recap of CMS Expo 2010

Mai 10, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This was the third year of the CMS Expo in Chicago and it took another leap forward. Rather than getting lost in downtown or suburban Chicago they’ve moved to the suburb of Evanston, right on the…

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Creating a Workflow for Drupal Users

April 06, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This week’s tutorial is the second of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors … blogs, newspapers, university sites and more. A common request is to improve Drupal’s default handling of nodes.

In the first part we covered how to give people easy to a list of their own nodes, using a module called workspace.

In this second part we’re going to create a workflow, allowing you to choose who has control over a node. A newspaper website is a great example – a writer may submit an article which is then passed to the copy-editor for checking and then to the editor for approval and publication.

In Part 1 we used the “Workspace” module. This time we’re using the “Workflow” module.

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Creating a Workflow for Drupal Users

April 06, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This week’s tutorial is the second of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors … blogs, newspapers, university sites and more. A common request is to improve Drupal’s default handling of nodes.

In the first part we covered how to give people easy to a list of their own nodes, using a module called workspace.

In this second part we’re going to create a workflow, allowing you to choose who has control over a node. A newspaper website is a great example – a writer may submit an article which is then passed to the copy-editor for checking and then to the editor for approval and publication.

In Part 1 we used the “Workspace” module. This time we’re using the “Workflow” module.

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Creating a Workflow for Drupal Users

April 06, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This week’s tutorial is the second of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors … blogs, newspapers, university sites and …

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How to Automatically Add Joomla Links to Keywords

April 05, 2010   CMS Expert   No comments

This tutorial is the answer to two questions we’ve been asked repeatedly:

  1. How can I automatically link keywords to the appropriate websites?
  2. How can I use internal links for links on my site?

Essentially they’re looking to change a link from http://www.cnn.com to http://www.ostraining.com/link/cnn/. The link still goes to the CNN website, but it first goes to a url on the webmaster’s own site.

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