Comments on: Why I Love Wordpress http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress Web Development, Photography, Media Production, Social Media Collaboration and Marketing Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:57:12 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: stymaster http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-57 stymaster Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:59 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-57 I looked at Drupal back when I first started wanting to expand on the dodgy handcoded html, and then discovered Wordpress, (about 6 years ago now.....), and loved it ver since, just because it's so easy to install. Ran it on a "server" at home for some time until a friend got some LAMP-enabled spce for me. I looked at Drupal back when I first started wanting to expand on the dodgy handcoded html, and then discovered Wordpress, (about 6 years ago now…..), and loved it ver since, just because it’s so easy to install. Ran it on a “server” at home for some time until a friend got some LAMP-enabled spce for me.

]]> By: Tarquin Stringplatter III http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-17 Tarquin Stringplatter III Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:25:35 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-17 Sort of the same thing as you, amalgamating maybe the sturdy soapbox which is here http://sandalsandsocks.typepad.com and my Flickr activity and maybe even www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/home.htm when I finally tidy the site up. Unfortunately, I don't have any knowledge of the PHP and SQL of which you speak. Have you voted for soxer of the year yet ? Sort of the same thing as you, amalgamating maybe the sturdy soapbox which is here http://sandalsandsocks.typepad.com and my Flickr activity and maybe even http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/home.htm when I finally tidy the site up.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any knowledge of the PHP and SQL of which you speak. Have you voted for soxer of the year yet ?

]]> By: Lee Jordan http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-15 Lee Jordan Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:39:28 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-15 Nope, it's a free download. Particulary if you've got your own site address it's worth doing, but you'll need PHP and MySQL as that's the technical services it relies on, my PHP/MySQL cost is £15 a year, so roughly the same as a flickr pro account. What were you thinking of doing on your site? Nope, it’s a free download. Particulary if you’ve got your own site address it’s worth doing, but you’ll need PHP and MySQL as that’s the technical services it relies on, my PHP/MySQL cost is £15 a year, so roughly the same as a flickr pro account.

What were you thinking of doing on your site?

]]> By: Tarquin Stringplatter III http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-13 Tarquin Stringplatter III Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:50:36 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-13 Hmm, you set me thinking as I've got keith-povall.co.uk which is not doing anything. Does wordpress cost per month ? Hmm, you set me thinking as I’ve got keith-povall.co.uk which is not doing anything. Does wordpress cost per month ?

]]> By: Lee Jordan http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-12 Lee Jordan Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:28:12 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-12 Pretty similar in blog terms, I'm not sure if you can download it and put it on your own domain name, like you can with wordpress. Pretty similar in blog terms, I’m not sure if you can download it and put it on your own domain name, like you can with wordpress.

]]> By: Tarquin Stringplatter III http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-11 Tarquin Stringplatter III Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:13:01 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-11 I'm with typepad, is that a similar setup as Wordpress ? I’m with typepad, is that a similar setup as Wordpress ?

]]> By: Lee Jordan http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-10 Lee Jordan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:11:30 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-10 Hiya Keith, No ignorance there chap, a Content Management System or web CMS is a way of putting content on the web without having to have detailed understandings of the languages and technical details involved, like a blog, they often use page templates. They offer much more speed to publish (in theroy) and freedom to display content in multiple sections or formats and also other website too without having to copy and paste the content all over again. Some work on the fly so the page is constructed when requested by the site vistor and some put the pages together and are published to a server before they are viewed. Finding a good CMS is the tricky bit because mostly the systems are coded by technical folks without real thought as to how complex they can seem to everyone else, the eventual end user. I've seen really expensive systems with too many complications and layers and they can actually get in the way of the objective "publish content quickly and easily without much training" and I've seen expensive systems that are actually really good. Wordpress doesn't get in the way in that respect, it lets you publish and it's free. Win, Win! There are others like Moveable Type, Mambo, Drupal and so forth but Wordpress is by far the most popular. Hiya Keith,

No ignorance there chap, a Content Management System or web CMS is a way of putting content on the web without having to have detailed understandings of the languages and technical details involved, like a blog, they often use page templates. They offer much more speed to publish (in theroy) and freedom to display content in multiple sections or formats and also other website too without having to copy and paste the content all over again. Some work on the fly so the page is constructed when requested by the site vistor and some put the pages together and are published to a server before they are viewed.

Finding a good CMS is the tricky bit because mostly the systems are coded by technical folks without real thought as to how complex they can seem to everyone else, the eventual end user. I’ve seen really expensive systems with too many complications and layers and they can actually get in the way of the objective “publish content quickly and easily without much training” and I’ve seen expensive systems that are actually really good.

Wordpress doesn’t get in the way in that respect, it lets you publish and it’s free. Win, Win! There are others like Moveable Type, Mambo, Drupal and so forth but Wordpress is by far the most popular.

]]> By: Tarquin Stringplatter III http://www.leejordan.org.uk/why-i-love-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-9 Tarquin Stringplatter III Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:39:31 +0000 http://www.leejordan.org.uk/?p=149#comment-9 Lees, forgive my ignorance, but what's a CMS ? KP Lees, forgive my ignorance, but what’s a CMS ?

KP

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