Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Updated with security fixes
We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and blogs we build use WordPress. Depending on the client and the strategy, we can sometimes build twenty or more WordPress-driven sites. That used to mean that we had to have individual folders for each site, with individual installs of WordPress. We were able to use the same the database by using table prefixes, but updating to a new version of WordPress was always a hassle — at least until now.
Scott Holdren ...
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville
Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to setup a fast, high-capacity podcast website without spending a lot of money.
A key component to this solution is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). S3 provides very cheap file storage and high-capacity delivery. That enables you to distribute your audio files to thousands of people at one ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2870/how-to-build-fast-high-capacity-podcast-sites-on-the-cheap
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Skip all the talk and get the plugin!
Here at Sitening, we have had the privilege of being granted access to the new MyBlogLog API while in its beta stage. As a developer primarily working with PHP, I first created a PHP wrapper class to implement all of the API calls. This made it a lot easier to develop web applications with the API without having to make all the requests and parse the responses each time. Using the wrapper (I mundanely called it PHP MyBlogLog), it was a snap to put together member profile pages for each community member ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3033/mybloglog-wordpress-plugin
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Textpattern is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that is powerful and easy to use. Its unique framework and workflow makes it easy for designers or software developers to quickly build dynamic, database driven websites.
Although Textpattern’s default installation provides a lot of useful features, it doesn’t try to be everything for everybody. Instead, it has an intelligent PHP based plugin system that allows programmers to write their own add-on code to enhance its functionality.
After using Textpattern extensively for personal and client websites, I was able to create the essential plugin list for Textpattern. This list contains what ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2794/8-essential-plugins-for-textpattern