Archive for the 'CMS' Category

Joomla to SMF Bridge discontinued

Due to changes in how the Joomla authors are interpreting the GPL the bridge between Joomla and Simple Machines Forum is being discontinued. Since I don’t fully understand all the nuances of the GPL below is a quote from the announcement on the SMF forums along with a link to the full thread.
As some [...]

Using Wordpress as a full CMS

Normally if I’m setting up a site and I want it to be a blog I use Wordpress and if I’m setting up more of a static looking site I’ll use Etomite. I like both packages a lot, and both have worked very well for me.
With the upcoming release of a web application project [...]

How to install Coppermine Gallery 1.4.10

Coppermine Gallery is a popular open-source photogallery script that’s used on sites all over the web. And it’s a very easy install.
Download the files
Head on over to the Coppermine home page to get the download file. Across the top you’ll see a link for Download. Click there to be taken to the SourceForge [...]

Bridging Etomite and SMF

A few months ago I started a photography forum with another moderator from a previous forum I was on. Part of our goal was to have a library of articles in a static site and link those articles back to a Simple Machines forum for discussion.
For the CMS I decided on Etomite since I’ve [...]

How to create a theme for Etomite

One of the advantages of using a CMS package is that site publishers can maintain their sites with very little knowledge of the underlying technologies used. But to customize your site and make it your own it does help to know a little HTML, or at least convert a template done in FrontPage or [...]