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Geek Culture / CMS - webdev just got a whole lot better.

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indi
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 04:58 Edited at: 25th Apr 2006 05:24
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Ive decided to change all my future web clients over to contact management systems.
I have not found something so simple to setup and procure.

The example i have just started to work on can be found here.
http://www.cockatoocottage.com click modern website.
the textual datas colour will be altered later.
there is an online shop as well on the way.


Im adding a CMS to toastmedia.com.au as well, but its in no shape to demo yet.
Im going to revive lunarpixel.net and add one to that for DBP related stuff.

vapournet.com rocks!

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Jeku
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 06:11 Edited at: 25th Apr 2006 06:11
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I agree--- CMS' are definitely the way to go. I especially like Joomla too.

By the way you should change all of your internal links to the other format-- can't remember the name now, but it's in the Joomla admin options. It makes all of your URLs use valid SQL-safe names. You can see what I mean on my Joomla site below:

http://automatongames.com/index.php


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indi
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 07:00
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if your referring to google safe indexing by altering your htaccess etc. then yep im onto that.

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Jess T
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 09:02 Edited at: 25th Apr 2006 09:05
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Yeah, I only create CMS's now

So much easier... And when giving them to clients, they can control everything, and stop blaming me for my poor spelling

( Just a correction, CMS stands for Content Management System )

I always write my own, since I didn't know that others were available as templates. But even still, I'll continue to write my own - So much more control, and It's alot easier to bug track.

Admittedly, mine are nowhere near as advanced as some ( like Joomla ), but, why kill the entire stock when you only need one steak?



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I did ones for;
impalasolutions.net
jt0.org
tgchelp.com
villagefair.net.au
Once I did the first one (tgchelp.com), I used parts of that and refined them to make villagefair.net.au, then again to do impalasolutions.net, and finally, my most recent one jt0.org, which is the most refined, so it's all basically put together via copy + paste
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BatVink
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 10:15
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I was about to ask how this was a contact management system, but Jess answereed the question

For the record, contact management systems are called CRMs (Customer Relationship Managers)

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 13:32
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We're moving our company websites ([href]www.pponline.co.uk[/href] and [href]www.sportbusiness.com[/href]) over to a CMS called Drupal. ITs really powerfull and has some excelent SEO options.


http://forum.antiblog.com, http://thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/new/
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spooky
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 14:45
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I hate SEO companies with a passion.

Being involved in web design and CMS programming as a job, I get annoyed when SEO companies target our clients and give them a load of bull about they will improve their search rankings by gently tweaking the html. Clients get sucked in to all the promises and order us to throw open our servers to these people who completely mess up our finely crafted websites and we end up tidying up everything after them. Cost the clients loads of dosh to 'optimise' the website, costs them a bit for us to fix all the stuff they broke, and usually it makes little or no difference to search rankings anyway.

We write our own CMS systems in Coldfusion, SQL server, etc, so our clients can update certain bits and pieces on their websites but have resisted temptation to allow them to edit whole pages of stuff as most of them haven't got a clue - they will quite happily upload a picture to put on a web page not worrying if it is many megabytes in size, rather like the idiots on this forum who have large animated avatars and sigs.

Boo!
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 14:52
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Quote: "they will quite happily upload a picture to put on a web page not worrying if it is many megabytes in size"


I have that issue with OsCommerce sites. The client puts new products on, along with a beautiful picture they just took straight from their 6 MegaPixel Camera


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indi
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 15:01
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lol i have something to look forward to batvink

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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 17:27 Edited at: 25th Apr 2006 17:32
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BatVink - I had the same issue regarding the impalasolutions.net site... The owner can upload images with every new 'Product' they add.

However, there's no limitation on these images (other than a helpfull warning saying: Don't exceed 640x480, and use jpegs).

So, I came across this nifty little PHP library called phpThumb.

Bloody awesome little bit of software - it uses the GDI library to generate thumbnails, and even the full-sized image to specified file sizes, resolutions, file types, apply effects, overlay text, etc, etc.
Then, each image is cached so there's no extra strain on the server later (if caching's turned on of course).

You'll notice the settings from the image URLs on the site - I limit all the thumbnails to 50x50px, with a max filesize of 8192bytes.


So, it's upload once - process once (first view) - view many many times

I suggest you have a look-see, as it really does mean you are basically holding the uploader's hand as to what they do, whilst keeping lightning fast pages

phpThumb

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 25th Apr 2006 22:19
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@Jess - I assume it has a cache folder then? Sounds nifty!

As for SEO - the guy we use does actually know what he's doing. He doesn't go in and bugger the code, he is very professional. He tells us webmasters what he thinks will work and mostly, it does. Sometimes, he suggests something new but he makes it VERY clear that its a test. He's never got us sandboxed, however we have been sandboxed once for people copying our content.

Btw: If any of you guys need hosting with root access, can I suggest [href]a2b2.com[/href]. I'm paying £14 a month for a VPS with root access, 256MB RAM, 30Gb HD, 200Gb bandwidth, up to 100Mb connectivity (and I know it is, I was downloading a file from the Kent Sourceforge mirror at over 6Mbytes/s and it was speeding up - it just finished too soon . I'm using it to host my sites - works fantastically. I want to move ThingyMaJig over onto it, but SupaNames are being useless. In the time Supanames took to "answer" one query, A2B2 had set me up a VPS, given me details, taken payment, tried to fix it after I broke it and reinstalled it. THATS service!


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Jeku
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Posted: 26th Apr 2006 03:52
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@Jess -- Yah I made something like that myself for my old boss--- was very sweet. They used a CGI uploader form and I rigged it to auto-scale and save with post-fixes (copyright text, border, b&w, etc.)

It was sweet


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indi
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Posted: 26th Apr 2006 05:41
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its built into joomla and mambo from what i can tell.

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Posted: 2nd May 2006 14:23
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Nick;
Yeah, it has a folder in the phpThumb directory that caches everything ( so you can clear it out if you want ).

Jake;
Nice, that would have been another option, but given that I didn't want to spend any more time on it, and I don't think they wanted to pay me any more for rigging it up, phpThumb's a pre-packaged um... package

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