web-software Posts

Jan 12, 2019

Helping people with their websites over the years has, for the most part, gotten easier. It got a lot easier when I started recommending to clients to use WordPress. It was simple, people could look at the editing screen and easily add/edit their content. That all changed when Automattic and ...

May 13, 2015

There are times when little problems pop up using WordPress that you just might not expect. Most users don't know or care about what character encoding their computer and browser are using but when that character encoding is different from what WordPress uses it can lead to some odd ...

Jul 30, 2009

Last week I open up the doors to questions. WordPress or Joomla? Which is better and why? I have actually posted about WordPress and Joomla in the past. That problem seems to have been fixed and I have since created WordPress powered websites with large numbers of pages and not suffered ...

Mar 6, 2008

There are times when you just want to add in a simple piece of Javascript in Joomla. While the default site module can handle HTML it can't handle Javascript. Seems like such a simple thing, but if you want to just copy and paste your Google Adsense code, or Entrecard ...

Feb 19, 2008

I still have not had a chance to install the new Joomla 1.5 to try it out. Thankfully I was just at OpenSourceCMS and discovered that they have the demo of Joomla 1.5 available. So if you would like to give it a try without installing it yourself take a ...

Feb 18, 2008

I discovered this past weekend that if you want to make WordPress grind to a halt all you have to do is import roughly 2000 pages into it. Why did I import 2000 pages into WordPress? Well I wanted to see how it would do. I have a client that ...

Feb 12, 2008

If you run your website on Joomla you should go and take a look at the Joomla website for information about the release of Joomla 1.0.14. Looks like the release is mostly a security release to prevent cross site scripting attacks. More information can be found at the Joomla blog. Don't ...

Jan 31, 2008

I talked a little last week about Joomla. I have been doing more work this week on various Joomla sites for clients and myself and thought I would let you know about my favourite Joomla directory component SOBI 2. Sigsiu Online Business Index 2 (SOBI 2) is an addon to ...

Jan 24, 2008

My father was a carpenter, he built grain elevators for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool for many years. One of the things he used to tell me is to always use the right tool for the job. This was usually just before I was going to do something stupid. Building websites ...

Jan 23, 2008

I thought I would continue talking about Joomla since they have now released version 1.5. Joomla is a great system and offers a great framework to build a website on. If you want to create a community based website where people can message each other, Joomla can do that. If ...