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Wordpress as a CMS and the plugins to help

At Cube3 we’re starting to use Wordpress more and more as a low cost content management sytem (CMS) for small-to-medium sized sites. Initially my concerns (having last used at Wordpress in the 1.x era) were that Wordpress was too heavily geared towards blogging and not so much towards content management, however after upgrading to 2.5 I have to say that Wordpress is a very viable option one that I would heartily recommend you consider for low-budget, low specification jobs – or jobs where the client won’t really use many of the features found in a high powered CMS.

There are a few things that we’re starting to implement before rolling these sites live and giving access to the client, and most of these revolve around customising the administration area so that it’s not as confusing for non-techy clients.

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Posted on July 6th, 2008 in Blogging | 3 Comments

Xbox Gamercard Plugin or API?

I’ve been having problems with the Xbox 360 Gamercard Wordpress Plugin… it keeps breaking, failing to download the images and inserting error messages which causes the layout of my blog to fail.

Does anyone know of a good Xbox 360 Gamercard PHP API plugin or standalone code that I can integrate into the site?

Photo by Tom Hensel.

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Posted on July 4th, 2008 in Blogging, Gaming | 2 Comments

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The blog of Chris Owens, a thirty year old web designer, developer, tech-head and enthusiastic amatuer photographer currently residing in Daisy Hill, Bolton, Lancashire, UK.

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