Check out a great article on Joomla vs WordPress Usability from Playing With Wire. I agree with what they have to say, WordPress user experience is second to none and Joomla is playing catch up in this department, but in other areas Joomla shines brightly. Here’s a quick comparison:
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“Many web developers who blog at some point share a little code or scripting. We do this to give away a hard-earned/hard-learned tip or trick, or in some cases to offer a whole script or code solution.
I’ve seen code posted on the web that was hard to read, difficult to access, and sometimes nearly impossible to use. I have come up with the following tips for posting code online.” – Mike Cherim
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WordPress has released WordPress TV a new resource with some great features and hundreds of videos to help on all tasks WordPress related:
“On WordPress.tv, you’ll find tutorials for both WordPress self-installs and WordPress.com to help you get blogging fast and hassle-free. We’ve kicked things off with the basics — now you can shape what comes next.”
Theres even some WordPress design videos
Video preview showing the gorgeous new WordPress Administration:
A growing list off all the template tags you can use to design and customize wp ecommerce, The plugin is still in its infancy and documentation is a little sparse but its a great ecommerce plugin for adding a shop to WordPress.
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I use WordPress for my web design projects and as most of you know a great advantage of this is the massive range of plug-ins that are available. I have been working with WordPress for some time now and seem to use a few of them quite often so I thought I would follow Mike Jolleys lead and make a shortlist of my top 10 favourite WordPress plug-ins;
I just wanted to highlight the latest release of blog and publishing extraordinaire WordPress to the public; Ella 2.1, Named after the famous Jazzer Ella Fitzgerald. I think its a great update and my website installation / upgrade was flawless. There’s some extra features added and some major holes in PHP that have been plugged.
In this article I will point out a new way of marketing your business website by using a blog. Why should you care about blogging, that’s just something web designers or egotistical teenagers do to look cool in class. If Microsoft believes that business blogging is important then who are we to ignore it?.