The Ramblings of a Developer, Project Manager, Sys Admin and Tech Junkie
For absolute beginners
As some may know I run my home lab primarily on a beefy PowerEdge server running on VMWare’s free ESXi hypervisor. I also have some raspberry pi’s doing small tasks. Firstly why have a home lab at all? It’s great for learning new skills. A home lab provides an excellent opportunity to learn new skills…
What is an SSL Cert? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a cryptographic method that was developed in the mid-90s to add a layer of encryption to web communications. You’ve probably seen that most we addresses take the form of http://website.com or https://website.com. The former is the usual, non-encrypted version and the latter is the…
What is Joomla? Well there’s a question I’ve been asked a few times and I’m ashamed to say I never even thought to post about it before as I had always assumed anyone visiting this blog would be would be looking for more in depth information about the CMS. So what is Joomla? Joomla is…
So you’ve finished working on your local wordpress install and want to upload it to your domain. It’s quite simple but you do need to make a couple of changes in the database once the website has been moved. Steps below: Take a backup of your database using phpmyadmin (save as a .sql.gz) Create a…
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People are often scared of this but there is no need to be. Below I will show you just how easy it is. These are the basic steps that we will follow: Download Akeeba Quickstart Upload Akeeba Kickstart to your hosting package Download the latest WordPress installation from WordPress.org Upload the zip file to your hosting…
Installing Joomla can often be a subject that scares beginners. Below I will show you just how easy it is. Hopefully the post will show relative newcomers how to install joomla on their web servers These are the basic steps that we will follow Download the latest Joomla installation in zip format Create a database…
So you want to build a CMS powered website but are confused as to what to use? Here are some pointers. There are a large variety of content management systems (CMSs) out there including: CMS Made Simple Joomla WordPress Drupal Here are some rules of thumb for me:
Welcome to CMS Bloke. First let me introduce myself. I’ve been a software developer for over a decade but only arrived in the web development sphere in mid-2007. Starting with basic (I cringe when I say table-based) websites through simple xhtml/css to large scale cms based websites for various industries. Along the way I’ve managed…