Content Management System aka CMS is a collection of procedures used to manage the workflow in a content manner. Web designers use CMS’s so that the users and themselves are able to update and upload content to their websites with out the hassle of HTML and CSS. We use this so that site management is simple for clients, it makes their lives and our own easier by the end of the day. There are many different open source CMS’s, the kind that don’t attack your pocket, here is a list of five CMS’s that are all great in their own ways. One: Wordpress I won’t lie, this is m favourite CMS to use, it is usually the first one I go for when I have the choice. Wordpress is well known for its easy blog use but with a few modifications it can become a CMS for almost anything. Wordpress
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Step One: It all starts with a bright idea When designing the best place to start things off is with the good old pen and paper. We should write down the basic questions and then answer them, these are: What do we want this site to do, be? What look are we going for? What colours are we aiming for? What do I want to use in this site? In this case the answers will be that we want this website to be a simple and clean blog with a technical twist, we want the colour scheme to be a simple one which is going to include white, blue, and black. The end result will need to use thumbnails for the each of the posts, a twitter feed, and an advertisement area in the side. With all of this in mind I can now draw up a few mock ideas
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Let’s face it, you’re going to be up against frustrating points during your time in your business, it’s going to get to the point where you’ll want to throw something against a wall, you’re going to want to tell the person that’s causing you all this to shove it up their- Ok so you get the point hey? Freelancing is a field where you will have to face stressful moments with people. In fact it’s going to happen in every job and this is everyone, you’re teammates, you’re clients…and let’s face it, this is just another bit of life too, there is no way of avoiding it. Now I know what you want to do, hey you’re not alone with the way you feel either, but you can safely assume that it’s probably not the right thing to do. You are a business person and if you go around storming
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Ok so grab yourself a cup of coffee/tea/hot chocolate/lemonade, sit back and relax. I’d like to take your time and introduce you to my blog, a blog for everything web and freelancing. So if you aren’t interested in this, that is fine but I wouldn’t recommend staying because that’s pretty much all we are going to be talking about and it’s never much fun pretending to be interested, trust me I know, I tried to listen in on my of my friends lectures on ‘The Wonderful World of Physics’ and I can’t say that went too well. My name is Mel, I happen to be the writer of this blog, I’m a self proclaimed superhero. Don’t worry I’m not crazy or anything, I just happen to really dig comic books, Batman and Iron man to be more precise. I’m 19 years old about to start uni aiming for a Bachelor
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