Well, I did the big nasty — I submitted this weblog to 20 blog-specific syndication sites or so. I’m still arranging things (like the template) and you should be expecting a new look/feel throughout the coming week. I’d prefer a Three-Column design with a white background and black text. What I have found so far has missed the mark mostly with colors — I found a few templates I was looking for over at BlogStyles but I didn’t care much for their color schemes.
One of the main reasons I’m starting to blog is to show proof-of-concept. My current employer is a new dotcom I helped create called Collectrix.com. There we host both normal websites and what I like to consider: Automated Sites for the Rest of Us. What I mean by that is the simplicity and ease-of-use content-management systems (CMS) have evolved into.
Most particularly, I’m refering to PHP-based websites that streamline the publication process to where semi-computer literate users can install and run a website without having to hack out lines of html code. In the past I have used PHPNuke and PostNuke. We used PostNuke at the original Movementarian.com site that was launched last August. Dave, my co-partner at Collectrix, and I decided to try out a new CMS called Mambo Server.
I had never heard or seen this CMS before, but one of Dave’s co-workers at his Real Life Job ™ insisted that Mambo has been around for year — in fact, he claims that it was one of the original ones. If you want to do some sleuth work, goto their SourceForge subsite. Now look at the updates and you can see that version 3 came out almost two years ago, and version 4.0.12 was just released. Based on that interval I believe it is safe to conclude that Mambo has indeed been around for many years. Also note, one of the more well-known CMS’s around is Slash. You may recognize the format because it is the same code that the infamous nerd site Slashdot.org uses.
Speaking of Slashdot (or as the community calls it /.), I have visited that site everyday for nearly 5 years now. And yes, I disagree with some of what they decide to report, especially JonKatz. But that is a story for another post.
Be sure to visit Collectrix.com and research the new niche market of Blog Hosting. Oh, and take a look at one of the neater features of this blogging software I’m using, called TrackBack.