Server/CMS Updates

Over the next week I’m going to transition the website over to a server and cms system. I’m not really happy with typo, it’s a great system but I really want something that is a bit easier to customize and hack on myself, I am a web developer after all. Of course the server upgrade is being prompted byt he fact that the current host is a bit limited on resources and we have several users currently trying to use the system. I really wish that I hosting service I am purchasing from would over a Gentoo install but alas it is not and most places that offer them tend to be a bit to expensive for my budget, so I’m going with the next best alternative CentOS.

So my current plan for the new CMS to try out is Radiant. We recently starting using it at work for the new versions of a couple sites we host, and it has been fairly painless to get used to working with and creating content in. The main developer appears to be fairly available and easy to interact with along with a lot of other community support that I have found lacking with Typo. It also looks like it will be simple to bring over the current content, especially since I haven’t lived up to my goal of posting every week so I don’t have much to move over currently.

Posted by Will on Feb 14, 2009

New Server and CMS

Hurrah for a new server that works!   Took long enough to get all the hardware working correctly but it looks like I finally have a new functioning system. Things left to do

• Look for the extensions I want to use
• Test various markup for posts to see if they look fine
  
• Convert content from old CMS into new CMS
• Find a new header image, something a little better than a flower.
  

1 Class Foo
2   def bar
3     puts 'foo bar'
4   end
5 end

Posted by Will on Feb 12, 2009