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Migrating from BlogEngine.net to WordPress – first thoughts and why we did it.
Dec 22nd
Well I’ve spent today switching from BlogEngine to WordPress and you know what, it’s not been bad.
I’ll maybe put a write up on here of the experiences but I guess there might not be too much to write.
I’ve always played around with WordPress and implemented it for clients, but being the .net geezer I am (even more so now I’ve fallen in love with mojoPortal) I always went for BlogEngine.
The reason I switched to WordPress was simple, and two fold: BlogEngine didn’t have enough themes or plugins. Of course we could make our own, but why reinvent the wheel? We do build More >
mojoPortal Review – my first experience creating mojoPortal skins – is this the best open source .net CMS?
Dec 17th
Hi, and welcome to my mojoPortal review, sprinkled with a few tips from my first time creating mojoportal skins.
Let me give you the bits you need to know before I get into the review proper:
- You can download MojoPortal from here
- It is developed by the extremely helpful Joe Audette
- It is written in C# .NET
- You can use the very good Community Forums to help get you started, along with the official documentation
- You can check out the mojoPortal demo to have a play around
Ok, so that’s where you can get the information you need, so let me give you a bit of a background More >
How to write a design brief for web design projects and SEO success
Dec 14th
Hey hey
We put a post up a while ago about the importance of a good design brief and promised we’d follow it up with how to write a design brief. Well, here it is.
We’re lucky enough to work a wide variety of projects through our SEO and web design work and the most common thing that we find is that clients don’t actually know how to write a good design brief.
“Why should the client have to write the design brief?” you might ask. Well, it’s a fair question. The answer is that they probably shouldn’t, it’s what we do More >
Quick update with some web design news for Barnsley Unison and some SEO thoughts for a Sheffield client
Nov 28th
Hey guys, more of a news bulletin today than a blog post. Been a crazy week with projects and had some illness in house – no pigs around though so all good!So; news round!The web design project for Barnsley UNISON is full steam ahead and about 85% complete; finishing up the functionality and polishing content before entering some beta testing with UNISON themselves. A big thanks to Ray Oldroyd and all staff for their hard work and help! We’re looking forward to launching the design to the web, The other UNISON branches will be so jealous! :0)Just for the record, the More >
