A few of my favorite quotes:
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. -Hannah Whitall Smith
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting--in the trying, not the triumph. - Wynn Davis
How Far Will You Push Yourself In Life?
InsiteCreation - Content Management System
This past week I finally had the time to sit down and work with my website Perfect-Business-CD that uses InsiteCreation 2010. Coming from static html sites, Wordpress and Drupal it has it's learning curves.
Primarily as to where everything is located, and how to configure it properly. I had actually started on the site back in May when LeadersClub brought it out to its members. Read more
Using Drupal 6 Views To Create Offset Recent Posts.
This past weekend I was searching for a way to take the recent posts block and have it display offset posts and limit it to 5 posts.
I found information on creating it by using php code inserted into a block, I was looking for something simpler.
The solution was to start leaning more about the Drupal Views module. So when in doubt it always pays to read the manual. In the Views tutorial there is a section titled "Create a block of author's recent blog posts." Read more
One Year Observation Between Drupal And Wordpress.
For a little more than a year now, I've been running Drupal on two of my websites, this site and my solar power site. Two of my other sites run Wordpress, along with my wife's site.
What brought me to write this post was just a few of the observations I've made over the past year between the two platforms for delivering content. It really is an unfair comparison between them. Read more
LiteJazz Plus RootCandy Theme For Drupal 6
When it comes to choosing a theme for Drupal what is it that you look for in a theme?
Over the past three weeks I wanted to give one of my sites a new look. I looked at all the Drupal themes for version 6, there are quite a few that I found intriguing.
I had used a previous theme that had been converted from the wordpress theme Revolution Music by RoopleTheme. Since I had one of the developer packages for the Revolution theme I put the theme into use. Read more
Summer Is Over - Bummer
It is simply amazing how fast time flies. I took off from writing on my various blogs over the course of the summer. The time was not wasted though.
Every now and then we really do need to stop and recharge our batteries, otherwise life becomes monotonous.
The really sad part is I got to spend way to much time catching up on the news issues each day. How truly depressing, you would have thought the election cycles where over. Read more
Fighting Wordpress Comment Spam
If you're running Wordpress for you blog no doubt you're getting blog comment spam on a daily basis. I never really thought to much about it Wordpress ships with Akismet.
While Akismet does a great job in catching most of the comment spam it still requires you to wade through all of the spam, and delete it. Read more
