design thoughts…

redesigning my site right now… adding CSS and thigns… got my layout drawn out, and logos in concept form right now… hopefully most everythign will be done in 2 weeks of my lax working… right now i’m contemplating obout whether i should stick with Nucleus or move over to a more CMS focused Content Manager…

I looked at Wordpress a bit, it doesn’t extend itself too much over Nucleus.. not for my needs anyways, so i probably won’t go with that. I’m looking at WebGUI / Mambo… which for my use basically do what Nucleus does as well but they actually have a file download/upload system… to keep articles and things organized — which at this point is what i’m interested in.

Afterall — my website is..
my portfolio - the keeper of my snippets of code, articles, essays, graphics etc..
my autobiography - blog, testiomony — its about life.

hms… a problem with switching blogs of course… is that i’ll mostlikely have problems importing my current entries, and i’ll probably just have to keep them in its own html file for reference…. which is slightly annoying…

that is unless.. i use both a content manager AND a blog… which would solve that… tho that’d sorta disrupt the continuity… hms… what should i do? O.o

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

  1. blkmage on July 26th, 2005

    Right now, my site is structured around the blog, which runs on wordpress. Why’d I do that? Well, because it’s the most updated thing on the site, and probably the reason people are visiting. So since the blog is the thing with the most content, I’ve designed my entire site around it, like the gallery and such. In that way, I only need a blog for updating the blog and managing the static pages so they are all templated and other software for whatever they do best (gallery, etc.).

  2. Anonymous on July 26th, 2005

    yah.. thing is i also want nice document manager so i can easily upload documents and have php generate those pretty lil formatting and things… so i don’t have to edit it every time..

  3. mrs. despatie on July 26th, 2005

    PPPPPERRRRRRRRYYYY!!!!!! hahah! hi! i havent comment on u yet…! heyyy! im not special enuff 2 b on ur blog???? yeah actually u can put my real site up..http://www.crazygurltalks.b... =) i hope everythin is cool wif u cuz u dunt talk 2 me no more i no when u put dat away sign ur inorgin me *hmpf* haha kiddins

    ally ! aka mrs. despatie =)

  4. Anonymous on July 26th, 2005

    i’m actually away when i’m away lol

    everything is kwlz — we should still tlak some more tho… haven’t really hope everything is going well for you too :)

    i’m redesigning my site.. so i figure theres no point in adding you now and then scratching this design y’know? but no worries youl’l be on later :)

  5. gusto5 on July 27th, 2005

    blog and a CMS? depends what you want on your site really…

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