By Pem McNerney on August 1, 2010
Stephanie Leary, the author of the recently released Beginning WordPress 3.0, began using WordPress in 2004 when it was known for its easy-to-use blogging capabilities for smaller sites. Lately, it has been gaining a reputation for being powerful enough to run larger sites and large collections of networked sites. Leary, who works as a web […]
Posted in Blogging, CMS, Content, Drupal, WordPress | Tagged blogs, Content, WordPress
By Pem McNerney on May 5, 2010
The Nation.com, the online publication of the left-leaning magazine The Nation, recently relaunched on the Drupal content management system. The new site features a clean three-column layout and a multimedia bar about halfway down the page. The design does a nice job guiding readers through the site, provides community elements such as “most read” and […]
Posted in CMS, Drupal | Tagged The Nation
By Pem McNerney on April 20, 2010
Drupal project leader Dries Buytaert told DrupalCon attendees in San Francisco this week that Drupal 7 could be available as soon as June 2010, if things continue to go well, according to this report from Gavin Clarke in The Register. Clarke is one of several thousands attendees learning about all things Drupal at the conference, […]
Posted in CMS, Drupal | Tagged Dries Buytaert, Drupal, semantic Web, sql
By Pem McNerney on March 27, 2010
Image via CrunchBase Data visualization meets Drupal: Equally exciting, some extremely powerful data-visualization tools now are available for anyone to create visualizations within a semi-controlled space: Data360, and IBM’ s Many Eyes are two of the best. We at the Jefferson Institute just released betas for a set of highly abstracted Drupal data-visualization modules — […]
Posted in CMS, Drupal | Tagged data visualization, Data360, Drupal
By Pem McNerney on March 24, 2010
CenterNetworks’ Allen Stern last year moved his blogs from Drupal to WordPress “because writing was frustrating in Drupal and is a pleasure in WordPress.”
Posted in CMS, Drupal, WordPress, Writing | Tagged Allen Stern, CMS, Drupal, InformationWeek, WordPress, Writing
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