"Working in a garage-based company that's looking to create its first killer Web site? Or maybe you're toiling in the bowels of a behemoth corporation, wondering why you're mired in an old-fashioned, "waterfall" software-development process when all you wanna do is board that Web 2.0 train, and quickly. Well, I've got the answer for you, and it's called Joomla."

Complete Story, Link found via Joomlatools

Following the latest release of Drupal 6 in February 2008, Packt Publishing is pleased to announce an update to David Mercer’s best selling Drupal 4.7 book. Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 is as much of an overhaul of the original book as Drupal 6 is over Drupal 4.7.

Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.

The updated book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from establishing the need for a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.

"Church websites have come a long way in the past decade. They've gone from being an ugly after thought in the church to something with some importance and style. You can plainly see this on Church Relevances list of the top 75 church websites. As community trends have grown the church has embraced them...We are now in another technological and paradigm shift that is offering up an opportunity for us re-think our church websites. Over the next several posts here let's do just that. To start this off we need to take stock of where we are at with our church websites."

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"This post has some general tips that I’d recommend to anyone wanting
to write a multilingual web application. The majority of my code these
days is PHP, but I think these tips are applicable to most web programming languages."

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A couple days ago, a fantastic video giving an overview of Drupal was made available at Drupal.org.  I was impressed enough with the video that I thought it was worth mentioning here.  While the video gets technical, but I think anyone who has interest in content management applications (most of my site visitors) should be able to follow along just fine. 

"The rush is on to make killer Facebook applications -- but is there more hype than money in the endeavor?"

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Ever since changing over to the new theme, I've been having fun by tweaking the site here and there.

• I've moved the comment submission form from below the post/comments to a separate page.  In order to submit a comment you'll need to either click on the "Add new comment" just below the story or the "Reply" links below the comments.  If I see a drop in the number of comments I'll assume the change causes leaving comments to be less inviting and will return the form back to the main page.
• I'm using the Similar By Terms module to post links to stories similar to the one being posted on the page.  This is a contributed Drupal module and still in development so I'm not sure how well it's going to work for my site.  I have a habit of placing a lot of categories/tags on my posts which could confuse the module.  The related stories will be placed a the bottom of the content page.

I'm also doing some work on cleaning up some of the terms I'm using.  Drupal's taxonomy is very flexible to configure.  While flexibility in software is a good thing, I need to put some self-imposed structure in how I'm using my vocabulary and terms.  Most visitors to the site will see no change to how the taxonomy is currently being used here at CMSReport.com

"It can happen anywhere, at any time. You’re doing your job, minding your own business, and it suddenly dawns on you: you’re the company’s webmaster."

--Shane Schick, "Accidental webmasters rejoice – help is on the way", GlobeandMail.com, September 5, 2007