CMS is not really a new word in the computer vocabulary. To describe it in a few lines, a Content Management System is what manages your online content, which can be your blog, forum, articles, gallery, videocast, podcast, magazine or anything. With a bunch of different Content Management Systems already available it’s really difficult to make your own place there.

To name a few, Joomla and Drupal are amongst the most popular CMSes. In fact, WordPress (primarily a blgging platform) also crosses boundaries of being ONLY a blogging platform, which certainly has got many powerful features for being considered as a CMS. Read the rest of this entry »

So here we do have a really nice update from wordpress.org, that is wordpress themes directory. ( Which is for self hosted blogs ) It was a long awaited release as right now themes.wordpress.net is not functional. (Not accepting new themes for a very long time now). So the only way to release your theme was to publish it on your own site, or other web directories which never gave it a central spot. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally my first wordpress theme is now is about to release. Today’s time was invested in searching an open-source license for the same and rest was to convince me to use it. I had no confusion in my mind about themes commercial and non-commercial use. So had two obvious choices.

1. GPL
2. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License

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Using WordPress as a CMS for your sourceforge project web page can be a great idea. WordPress really goes beyond the boundaries of only a blogging tool. This guide would serve as step by step procedure to setup WordPress on your sourecforge project page. Read the rest of this entry »

I noticed this effect long time back and was really stunned by it’s graceful beauty. For a quick quick introduction to fancy menu go to this page. Great mootools library of JavaScript shows it’s magic with very elegant semantic XHTML and CSS in this technique. Definitely a great read!

For the JQuery port of the fancy menu effect read this post or this post at meta20.net (aka Smooth Menu for JQuery)