Smashing Magazine has posted a couple articles to help web developers and designers with their Wordpress and Drupal sites. Some great suggestions and resources are listed in these articles.
The articles don't include everything, but it's a wonderful start for those just beginning to learn about Drupal or Wordpress. Link found via Nick Lewis' blog.
Tim Wilson, the site editor for Dark Reading, recently posted an article about recent at the AARP.org website. In the colorfully titled article, "Porn Operators Hijack Pages on AARP Website", Wilson interviews Jeremy Yoder of MX Logic about why AARP.org's site was vulnerable. In brief, the explanation given is that the site deployed a number of Web 2.0 features including user profile submissions which the site didn't properly filter out JavaScript redirected code. Yoder than
Amit from Joomlatools contacted me to introduce me to their new company as well as their new product, Nooku. The introduction is somewhat ironic given the fact that Johan already contacted me last Spring. I have also had a link to Joomlatools' blogs in my Blogroll for a number of months!
However, it sounds like they're doing exciting stuff over at Joomlatools that should make quite a bit of the Joomla! community happy. Nooku looks like a great product and the extension/framework should help Joomla! 1.5 users create multi-lingual websites more easily. I wish the best for Joomlatools.
Tavis sent an email to CMSReport.com asking me to take a look at WebGUI. WebGUI is an open source content management system licensed under the GPL v2.
Hello, I wanted to send a quick note and see what it would take to setup a new CMS Focus category for WebGUI. The community is extremely active and there is definitely plenty of buzz about new releases, the community, and the organizations who decide to adopt it.
WebGUI also powers cmsmatrix.org...
Thanks!
Tavis
This Drupal site of mine has taken quite a bit of beating the past couple weeks. While Mollom has been protecting this site well enough from the comment spammers, it isn't designed to prevent the bots from trying to ping me so much. It has been an incredible experience to see the bots try to open every possible URL and directory here at CMSReport.com. But probably the real stress on the site has been my testing of numerous contributed modules that are still under development. Probably using a production server to test new modules isn't the smartest thing for anyone to do, but it does provide a nice adrenaline rush from time to time.
To make a long story short, I'm testing a number of ways I can use a Web content management system more efficiently to run this site. I also want to do some restructuring of the site so that I have more flexibility in the look and feel of the site as well as how the content is delivered. For the most part, I'll be using Pathauto, Views, Panels, and one of the aggregation modules. I'm currently testing the FeedAPI module for aggregation, but none of the aggregation related modules really do what I want them to do. I'll put up a site recipe in the next month or two on the modules I finally settle on to support this site.
Now it is time for me to go. Evidently, one of the modules I've installed is causing some cron issues. Am I having fun, yet? Yes, I am.
Augustana College, a United States college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is using Drupal. According to Augustana's Web Editor the site was developed by Tim Broeker of Electric Jet using Drupal 5. Electric Pulp, a local Sioux Falls company, also contributed to the project by doing the design and CSS work.
I don't think I've ever met Tim Broeker, but what is interesting about this Drupal site developer is that he also has a Joomla! Core Team connection. Yes indeed, open source does matter.
Updated Sep 8 2008 per comments at CMSReport.com
Packt Publishing announced the five finalists for each category of its 2008 Open Source CMS Award. Last year, Drupal was the overall winner. Voting for the winners in each of the five categories opens September 1 and ends on October 20, 2008. This "public vote" will then be combined with votes by a panel of judges for the top three CMS in each category will then be voted for by a panel of judges.
Incidentally, this year I'll be on the panel of judges for the Most Promising Open Source CMS.
Overall Open Source CMS Award
Bitrix Site Manager may seem unassuming, but underneath this CMS lays a fantastic algorithm that drives this CMS' performance over almost all other existing CMS applications out there. It's most definitely the most cost effective Content Management system today.
Introduction:
Having worked extensively with open source CMS applications like Joomla, Mambo and Drupal, we've come to realize one universal fact. Microsoft does not like them. Ergo - Internet Explorer does not like them. Which eventually means that a majority of browser users find it difficult to work with user controlled content over the web, if the CMS installed happens to be a Joomla or a Drupal.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that Wordpress 2.6 is more than a blog and is quickly evolving into a full-fledged Web content management system. While they're a little late, some of my competitors (CMS Watch) also recently noted the trend of blogging applications such as Wordpress taking on more CMS-like duties.
WordPress 2.6 was released just a couple days ago. During the time I have covered WordPress, I have always considered WordPress more as blogging application and not really a full featured content management system. However, ever since I installed Wordpress 2.5 on one of my sites, I can't help but think that WordPress now rocks as a CMS.
If you haven't looked at WordPress in the past year or so, I recommend that you do yourself a favor and take a look at what you may be missing out.