Flash and Wix

Flash, a choice on the web with as many benefits as negatives. Almost a design life style choice.
Most if not all the effects that flash was once famous for can now be recreated with alternative products such as silver light, or with javascript and CSS and or AJAX solutions.

I avoid Flash due to the client side reliance on the developer, then Wix came along. Wix offer hosting and templates for flash websites controlled by a flash based WYSIWYG editor. You can make some stunning results, e-commerce, galleries and more. It is worth a look.

Commercially though the service as several bugs and failings. Speed for one. looking around I have found site slow to deliver simple content and in wix.com support forum so have the majority of vocal users. So although for the casual user it seems at first excellent for any kind of service or provision of service it is lacking.

Have a look and play, make up your own Mind.

A comparison of CMSs'

Six Revisions have a updated comparison of CMSs, ive mentioned these twice in recent articles but its always worth keeping up to them, has its these decisions that I rely on day to day.

Cats Who Code

I found this blog a while ago and keep a good eye on it.

Jean is a 27 years old self-taught web developer and WordPress specialist who lives in Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium. In addition to Cats Who Code, he also blogs about WordPress at WpRecipes and about Photoshop at PsdVibe.

Jean really knows his stuff and as far as wordpress development this blog is invaluable i suggest every one has a read.

Recently I needed this advise, to fix a theme from Press75. Jeans site was quicker than google and filter.

Wordpress or Drupal

Wordpress is currently my weapon of choice, I wrote a previous article comparing Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. I am a web developer foremost designer second.

I find Drupal and Wordpress to be my weapons of choice depending upon the task.
Wordpress as matured so much in the last 2 years it is now a CMS in its own right but a blog is what it is really good at, where drupal is a CMS creator.

Drupal allows you to create the CMS your user needs, it finds it hard to do very pretty but very easy to create custom content. Word press allows for the pretty.

Over the next few posts you should find some interesting tips for using wordpress and Drupal as this was always the intention of this blog.