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It seems like only yesterday that Rails was being trumpeted as the Next Big Thing™. But, no sooner had you wrapped your head around that framework, along comes another one. Django is gathering substantial support within the web development world, but can appear quite intimidating to beginners. Dan Ellis presents an introduction to the flexible framework for web perfectionists.
Whether you’re a multi-million pageview behemoth or a much smaller site, you can speed up your website by offloading some of the hosting to a different domain. But who needs the hassle of setting all that up, when you can use Amazon’s infrastructure instead? Craig Noeldner and Mike Culver walk us through the process of setting up and configuring your own little piece of Amazon S3.
We have many systems at hand for designing, developing, and managing site content—an almost overwhelming list of choices. The past few years have seen the rise of a several that are particularly well-suited to companies and designers who don’t require or want a powerhouse platform with a learning curve as steep as Mount Everest. One of these is Textpattern. We asked Andrea Arbogast, an experienced Textpattern enthusiast, to interview the authors of the comprehensive new book from Friends of Ed, Textpattern Solutions, and give us an in-depth answer to the question, Why Textpattern?
The online store is the bread-and-butter of many freelancers and web agencies—but very few have the resources or skills to build their own eCommerce system from scratch. The sensible option is to turn to the professionals, but with the dazzling (or sometimes not-so-dazzling) array of options available, how do you choose the package or company that is right for you? Shannon Watters tells us the key things to keep in mind when shopping for a shop.
Central and peripheral forces put content management professionals under serious pressure. Compliance issues and demands for standard processes thwart Web workers trying to quickly meet the needs of customers. Can one content management system handle both centralization concerns and local autonomy? And what can user experience pros and information architects do to help?
New to Web design? Fresh out of cash to pick up the software you need to get the job done? Brian Reindel dives into his top 17 picks for free time-tested, user-approved tools for Web designers—from antivirus software to VoIP. Best of all, they’re also free of adware and community supported.
A few originally open-source applications have switched to a paid model, but not WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, its creator, is passionate about open source and it shows in his work and words.
Mena Trott shares the latest developments at Six Apart, including the growing team, sticking to their roots, the future of TypePad and Movable Type 3.1’s hot new features.
Victor offers a variety of designs for building CSS editing features into content management systems to make changing styles easier.
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