Posts Tagged ‘Drupal’

Buyer Beware: CMS Templates

June 8th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher

Cheap templates may end up costing you more in the long run

Buyer Beware - CMS Templates may cost you more in the long run

I recently received a call from a small business owner who purchased a $50 template for his Drupal web site.  He already had an existing Drupal installation but wanted to “upgrade” the look & feel of it.  His website had well over 50 pages including blog articles.  The template company offered to install the template for an additional fee and requested that he provide them with a backup of his database. 

Three days later his website was a mess and he was on the phone with me.
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Keep Your CMS Up-To-Date With a Maintenance Plan

February 24th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher

As I work on more & more content management systems, I’ve come to realize that keeping your CMS up-to-date and in good working order is critical to a properly functioning web site.  A nice feature on most content management systems is that the admin program warns you when the core program or any installed modules require updating.  Sometimes these are minor updates to improve features and other times these are major updates that affect the security of your web site.
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Adding Features to Your CMS

February 3rd, 2010 by Liz Gallagher

WordPress or Drupal CMS

One of the wonderful things about a Content Management System is the ability to easily expand your web site with new pages and new features.

Once your web site is built on a CMS, the options are practically endless – especially if your CMS is Open Source, such as WordPress or Drupal.  These are two of the open source Content Management Systems that I typically work with.  Open Source means that the source code is available to the public and therefore developers from all over the world can expand on the functionality of the CMS by adding new features.  These new features are called modules, widgets or plug-ins, which you can download and add to your own CMS web site.

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