In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about general Content Management System issues.
I’m always on the lookout for business trends in our industry and I’ve spotted a significant new one in recent months. Increasingly CMS companies are supporting different platforms. The choice for each company is different, but the trend seems real:…
Congratulations to Drupal which won both of Packt Publishing Open Source CMS awards this year. Drupal also won last year and Joomla won in 2006. What interested me wasn’t really the decison but the explanation: "Comments were also reserved for…
During conversations with clients over the last few months, one key question keeps coming up: "should I use Joomla 1.0 or Joomla 1.5?" In fact, I can trace the first time I was asked that question back to October 2006.…
Finally it looks like we may have an answer to the question I posed last year: can Joomla or Drupal produce a RedHat? Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert has launched a new company called Acquia that has picked up $7 million…
An interesting question over on our Joomla SEO Forum: "Why did you use VBulletin for the forum instead of Fireboard?"
Fascinating to see Drupal considering different ways to raise money for their project. It seems that every successful Open Source project ends up asking the same question: “How can we get the resources to keep growing and improve our standards?”…
The web still has lots of carry-overs from the real-world. Think of the way the names given to so many online items, such as folders, bookmarks, pages and tabs. They comfort people by reminding them of a real-world office. As…
I’ve just been tagged by my friend Scott Fish over at FishSEO.com. The question is, “Why Do I Blog?” Its a simple question, and deserves a simple answer. Blogging helps me deal more successfully with three groups of people:
JoomlaCode.org was released last week, and it was a major step forward for Joomla. Despite this good news the story didn’t make it far beyond the Joomla community. Amy Stephen posted on her blog, urging people to vote for it…
Today saw the end of something that has bugged me for a whole year – our Yellow Pages contract. Wow, that’s an expensive, useless heap of nothing for a webdesign company. After two years of growing the company, mainly by…