Archive for March, 2008

Upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and new theme

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Today I installed the latest WordPress release (2.5) and it works great. WP would fit neatly into my "Why some web applications are more usable than others" series as a positive example of how to do stuff. After the installation I decided to change the theme to something more suitable. The ...

Why some web applications are more usable than others (part 2)

Friday, March 14th, 2008

After the DotNetNuke desaster I settled down to the more classic way - nice and understandable PHP CMS software. After some consultation I had to decide between using typo3 and Joomla!. Joomla! made the win (I just thought typo3 was a little too complex for the given situation), but it ...

Why some web applications are more usable than others (part 1)

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Just recently a colleague and I had to design a little web site and fill it with some content. We decided to use an open source CMS and since the existing infrastructure contains a Windows 2003 Server with IIS and MS SQL as a database backend, he convinced me to ...