Well, it depends. You may not “need” a blog, but if you need a website that is easy to maintain, share information, and receive input from visitors, a blog site can be the solution many small businesses or individuals are looking for. Let’s start with some basics and try not to lose anyone along the [...]
This is the online portfolio and blog of Rodney Drewery, web developer, designer, and content management enthusiast.
Google This!
The year 2000 was an interesting footnote in the unfolding universe of the Internet. Search engines, peer-networking, Toys.com, everything everywhere, nothing but net. The new knowledge worker used a browser first, then launched a desktop application to communicate facts, figures, and information. Just seven years ago, Google users couldn’t dream of $480 a share, but [...]
What is Plone?
“Plone” is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server.” For the rest of us, Plone is a CMS, easy to set up, flexible, and provides a system for managing web content. This makes it an ideal tool for project groups, communities, web sites, and extranets and [...]
Open Source CMS
As many of my clients are aware, I’m very attracted to any and all things open source, especially when it comes to affordability and ease of use. Free is definitely affordable. Ease of use is another matter. For example, the blogging platform this site is built upon is free, but not exactly the easiest to [...]
The Right Tools
I first became aware of desktop publishing while performing a courier delivery in Los Angeles, 1985. Stopped at the intersection, I was drawn to the window display of a retail store. The displays were pretty impressive (the kind that brings out the toy-store kid in you). I pulled over and just stood window gazing for [...]