Aside from being a good blogging tool, WordPress is also a lightweight content management system that can be used to run such diverse sites as news or magazine publications, personal and organizational websites.
I recently started accepting paid web development work and website management. Several weeks back, I bought a domain, Tugkaran.com (from the Bisaya word [...]
Entries Tagged as 'WebTech'
Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours
August 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Tags: Blog design · Blogs · Highlights · Open source · WebTech
Joomla users schedule Cebu meeting
May 30th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Users, developers, and supporters of the open source content management system (CMS) Joomla will be meeting in Cebu next Saturday, June 7 at the Lepiten & Bojos Law Office on Don Pedro Rodriguez St. in Capitol Site, Cebu City (see map below).
The meeting is preparatory to the Joomla Day that will be held in UP [...]
Tags: Open source · WebTech · free software
From here on, Heron
April 24th, 2008 · 21 Comments
Today, the new Ubuntu Linux version—8.04 the Hardy Heron—will be released. I have been using the beta or test version for the last two weeks and have found Ubuntu to be easier to use and install and its whole computing experience better than ever.
I had initially decided to stay away from using the beta version—the [...]
Tags: Mobile · Open source · WebTech · linux
Using WordPress as CMS of news, magazine sites redux
January 10th, 2008 · 20 Comments
My redesign of Cebu Living, an online magazine on Cebu, is now live. Check it out. It’s using a WordPress theme for news and magazine websites. The new theme still needs a lot of work but if you want to try it out, you can do an anonymous svn checkout: svn checkout http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/cebulivingmagazine. Just go [...]
Tags: Blog design · Highlights · Internet · Journalism · Open source · WebTech
Smart TextMail and mobile alerts on tasks, website availability
November 26th, 2007 · 63 Comments
One of my longest mobile experiment drew to a close early this month with my rediscovery of Smart’s TextMail.
For more than a year, I’ve been trying one service after another in an effort to get my e-mails sent as text messages to my mobile phone. The answer, you might say, is simple: buy a [...]
Tags: Free services · Highlights · Mobile · WebTech · planner · productivity
Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns
November 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments
While setting up a Wi-Fi network for the PLDT myDSL connection at home earlier this week, I got a timely warning from a press release. Anti-virus company Sophos said many people now use someone else’s wireless Internet connection without their permission.
Sophos said 54 percent of 560 respondents who took their online survey admitted to using [...]
Tags: Highlights · Internet · Mobile · WebTech · linux

