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Getting Started with Umbraco: New Premium Series (The Full Series)
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Getting Started with Umbraco: New Premium Series (The Full Series)

on Apr 29th 2011 with 24 comments

Umbraco is a super-friendly, ultra-configurable and uber-powerful .Net-based CMS, and you need it in your life! It is so powerful that you can literally do whatever you want with your site, but it’s so easy to use that even your non-technical clients will be able to pick it up with minimal training. In this written series, I’ll teach you exactly how to build a website theme from scratch with Umbraco.

Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts.

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What’s New in Drupal 7

What’s New in Drupal 7

on Jan 10th 2011 with 93 comments

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) out there. To mark the new year, Drupal 7, the next major version of Drupal, is being released! In this article, I’ll walk you through some of the most exciting new features.

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Using AWS S3 to Power Your Digital World

Using AWS S3 to Power Your Digital World

on Nov 7th 2010 with 26 comments

As a designer, web developer, and techie-geek, I need a versatile and robust data storage solution that I can afford, but also use without learning some new language. So far, I’ve only found one service that can handle the large majority of my needs. This article covers how I use the Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) to meet most of my needs.

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Turbocharge your ExpressionEngine 2 Education

Turbocharge your ExpressionEngine 2 Education

on Oct 27th 2010 with 29 comments

ExpressionEngine, as a platform and a community, has seen a lot of growth recently. While there are some nice roundups out there about EE resources I thought it was time for a more relevant and up-to-date article to hit the streets. If you’re getting started, this set of resources will get you moving in the right direction. After all, I’ve walked this path myself thus far.

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A 15 Minute Surreal CMS Integration

A 15 Minute Surreal CMS Integration

on Mar 22nd 2010 with 53 comments

You’ve already built your website, but how are you going to maintain it? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate your website with Surreal CMS in under 15 minutes. We’ll go over some of the “gotchas” and have you editing virtually any static website in barely no time at all.

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Building a Blog from Scratch with Frog CMS

Building a Blog from Scratch with Frog CMS

on Feb 11th 2010 with 6 comments

We tend to cover a lot of CMSs; especially WordPress related material and topics. While WordPress is an absolutely wonderful CMS, there are some other content management systems out there that don’t get the credit they deserve. One worth noting is the Frog CMS, an open source simple content management system. From what I can tell, the greatest thing Frog has going for it is its simplicity. It feels blazingly fast and the way everything is organized is very intuitive. Today, we will take an in depth look at getting started with the Frog CMS, as well as building our own blog from scratch.

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Easy Editing for your Clients with PageLime
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Easy Website Updates with PageLime

on Nov 12th 2009 with 84 comments

PageLime makes the process of editing static websites laughably easy. There are times when a full CMS like WordPress is far too complicated when only simple edits are required – not to mention the fact that a static template must first be modified accordingly to work with WordPress. Wouldn’t it be easier if your current static website could instantly be integrated with a service, without requiring hours of conversion time? This is where PageLime comes in.

In today’s video tutorial, we’ll go through the process of purchasing a site template on ThemeForest, and then integrating that specific template with PageLime, resulting in a website which is super easy to update…even for your mom.

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WordPress as a CMS: New Premium Tutorial

on Oct 28th 2009 with 60 comments

When most people think about WordPress, they think about blogs. If you look at the front page of WordPress.org, they talk a lot about blogging as well. What they don’t tell you is that WordPress can also double as a very powerful CMS; you just have to set it up properly. It can be a bit tricky to get setup and working the way that you want; but this is where I come in.

In this 3-part tutorial + screencast series, I’m going to take you through the three steps of using WordPress as a CMS. Become a Premium member.

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How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter

on May 13th 2008 with 156 comments

Sometimes it seems there are as many CMS products out there as there are web developers. In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple to use product that’s come on the market recently.

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