Customizing Blog:CMS

One feature that persuaded me to use Blog:CMS as my blog publishing suite is the ability to customize almost everything about the blog from the admin interface. The entire look and layout of a blog is manipulated within the blog software. Only one thing is necessary to do outside it: create a directory to contain [...]

Writing a site engine

At DevShed you can find many articles about all spects of development, especially web development. Recently they published a series of articles on building a site engine. The five articles do a nice job of walking a person through many of the basics, with some reasons here and there why some choices are made. Some [...]

First Post

Welcome to the first post in my new blog. Due to various reasons, and dissatisfaction with other blog software, I’ve settle on using BLOG:CMS for my blog software. With the transition I’ve archived and removed all older material (again due to various reason which I will not enumerate).

Without further ado, we move to [...]

Post Revisions

Ever since I saw the link on Mark Pilgrim’s blog, the ability to view revisions made to posts has lurked in the back of my mind. Today I looked for a plugin to handle revisions and found the following: My Kwiki: RevisionPlugin. This I must get working on my blog.

Combating Comment Spam

Alot is has been written to this point about the problem of comment spam. This article, Yoz Grahame’s Cheerleader: Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog, has to be the most balanced I read to date, with quite helpful tips.

Especially important I think is this point:

Variance is the key here. The [...]