Archive for August, 2008
Firefox plugins
Posted by admin in Web design & development on August 8, 2008
Alternative CMSes to look at…
Posted by admin in CMS, Web design & development on August 7, 2008
There’s in interesting article over at vitamin by Paul Boag entitled The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS. Of course these costs must be allowed for in any serious CMS implementation strategy. Not much emphasis is given to the very real need for any publication content managed by a person or to be edited. Just like in the good old world of print. Just because the web allows us to publish instantly – it doesn’t mean it’s necessary a good idea to do so. There’s a good article about the need for editors over at ALA (I think I’ve mentioned before).
Anyway down in the comments there’s the obligatory Drupal big-up along with mention of a couple of a couple of other options. I’m going to keep MODx in my back pocket. I like the look of it…
Font management on Mac OS X by Linotype
Posted by admin in Graphic design, Mac on August 7, 2008
Thanks to guns for for making me aware of FontExplorer in the comment on this thread on how to organize fonts using Font Book over at Mac OS X Hints. FontExplorer looks great; the price certainly is. Must give it a good look when I get a chance.