easyweb.co.uk - CMS

Laws, Sausages and Websites

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:01:13 +0000

The esteemed Mr Handelaar recently opined that Websites should join the list of Laws and Sausages as things you shouldn't see being made.

Can't argue with that, and I'm exposing the guts a bit here more than I'd like. But you'll have to live with that, eh?

So, the site is here. ~~This theme's a bit pret a porter, and it'll develop once I've lived in it a bit, and when I get time to work on it.~~ I've moved from the initial Bonsai theme to one of my own design. It's all fixed width, based on Golden Sections.

The old content's still over in Zope, and as it's not in a standard RDBMS, extracting it and porting it will be a bit of a manual labour. But I'll be bringing it back as and when I get time, and it'll be at the same old URLs thanks to Drupal's Path module.

Google Sitemaps Plone Product

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:16:12 +0000

A really simple tool to auto-generate Google sitemaps for your Plone site. Here's the output from this site: http://easyweb.co.uk/google-sitemaps.

http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-sitemaps

Via ZopeZen.

Your Clients Need a Content Management System

Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:06:22 +0000

According to the ad, the day you realised that there was no Santa Claus was an epiphany. They also tell you that realising that you need their hardware is also an epiphany. Here's another one: the night that your site advertises PCs at £10.00 (rather than £1,000) and you can't pull it until the Web Guys come in tomorrow morning.

You Need a Content Management System

Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:00:31 +0000

Since the first suit told the first web designer Update our site faster, content management has been vital for professional sites. Why does it matter? What do you need to be doing about it?