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Why WordPress is Bad

Pavel Karoukin's picture

WordPress is a great piece of software... for blogs. It's also good for quick sketching of small websites with all static pages. It allows for quick and hassle free change of page content, while handling header/footer/sidebars itself. So it has some CMS capabilities.

Overall, WP has a great admin panel focused on content editing. You can get your blog launched within 5 mins and you can install custom blog themes easily too. So it's great, until you try to use Wordpress for something it is not designed for.

Why Prototype?

Pavel Karoukin's picture

If you keep asking yourself this question, you can be assured that you are not alone in wondering what this “grayscreen prototyping” is all about.

For us it simply means the process of developing an easily modified and extensible model of a planned software system, or in our case, a website. What we do, we create one or a series of HTML/CSS documents that would represent the future web application in action.

Formal Education: Worth or Worse?

dasha's picture

I wanted to share my view on this topic long ago, but apparently my laziness and some lack of time and general enthusiasm have prevented me from sitting down to note my ideas on the benefits and drawbacks of the formal University education.

Well, after I have gone through my 5-year course at Minsk State Linguistic University, I can well congratulate myself on completing a lengthy and rather tedious assignment. On the other hand I am now a proud possessor of a longed for diploma (a certificate with an A4 sheet of paper stating my grades for most of the subjects studied by me).

Drupal and SEO Links

Pavel Karoukin's picture

While developing sites for web marketing company Leads You, I've developed SEO Links module. Its main purpose is to provide ability for centralized creating links with keywords. It work next way - you define list of keywords, URLs for these keywords and from now all node's content passed through SEO Links filter will be processed so all keywords will be replaced with links to appropriate site.

After you define new keywords:

 
 
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