Digg digg and keep digging.....

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online read more...

This is what the about page on the site of digg says. It is a very good place to increase the popularity and traffic of your website. It is very good place for initial marketing of your blog if you are a new to blogging.

You can also use the buttons of digg on your site or the blog, as I have on each post in the blog, on the left. It shows the number of times this story has been submitted on digg.

There is a very good blog on the use of digg on blogger on a blog. Please follow this link for more information about how you can add the buttons to your blog.

Aditya Shevade

Getting used to the basic idea now....

Finally, after reading some tuts and watching the visual tuts provided by Joomla on their site, I have begun to get used to this idea of a CMS managing a site.

The tuts are very well written (sometimes annoying for people like me, because many too basic things like editing a file using notepad in windows (I hate windows) have also been added. But that is required for people who are new to this world of computers. Anyways....

So, I am sitting tight, listening to songs and reading the tuts. First I was thinking that I hate this CMS thing, but managing a site is easier there. So what to do? Now, I am starting to like it (Looking forward to the day when I will start liking the subjects I have to study for my engineering... which seems highly unlikely). Change is good.

Aditya Shevade

I think choise has been made....

I was just browsing through the website of Joomla. And found some very good tutorials. And extensive 183 paged user manual and visual tutorials on their help site. And, it's forum is very popular with more than a million posts. And it is looking very good.

I also compared the CMSs on CMSMatrix website and found that Joomla was best suited for my purpose. So... I think there are 99% chances that I will be using Joomla.

There might be this kind of tuts and a very big support for other CMSs also, but I am unaware of that fact right now.

Aditya Shevade

Which way to turn now?

As mentioned in one of the last posts of mine, I am finding it very difficult to manage the website using nothing but a web browser and a text editor. And updating content using this way will be a lot of pain in the a**.

I tried to make a way out of it by adopting the virtual pagination concept. But that too will get out of hand once the size increases. So, it seems as if there in no way out for me from learning CMS.

I have shortlisted 3 candidates.

• Joomla
• Mambo
• Drupal

Right now, from all that I have read, I am a little bent towards Joomla. Please suggest. For blog, I have chosen wordpress.

If I adopt a CMS (which I will have to), then I will have to make a CMS theme out of my CSS theme. For that I will have to learn PHP. And I also have to learn the CMS that I will finally choose.

Hm... it seems like the god himself has decided that he will not let me rest until I learn PHP, CMS (and also will not let me publish my site till then).

Aditya Shevade

Website Design Progress Report.....

Hey.... The design of the new website is not going as per my plans. The reasons were many and the most of them were unavoidable. But I guess it happens. Life would be much more easier if I had the source code. But, the only source code I have got at my hand is of that site of mine. And I have not been able to put up with my schedule. I had planned it to be over within this month. But that seems highly difficult, if not impossible.

I have designed only 7 pages so far. No sitemap. No articles written. No photographs sorted and selected. And, to add to my worries, I have been having a trouble deciding whether or not to go for a CMS (Content Management System) for my website.

The benefits are many. The most important one being the ability to update the content dynamically. So, I gave a try to some CMSs. But, there were many problems. The major one being that I do not know PHP yet, and knowledge of PHP is a must to use CMS effectively and to create custom themes. Also, getting full knowledge of a CMS is not as easy as it looks, especially when it is an Open Source one. You have to digg and digg to get the info.

So, due to lack to time, I decided not to go for a CMS in early stages. Just create a base site. Upload it and run a test site on some subdomain and get familiar with the CMS and then start using it. Till then the only CMS I will be using it wordpress. That too because I found the theme I was looking for.

Until further news....

Aditya Shevade

Site Building News.....

The website building is going at the fastest speed manageable to me, in these conditions. I have to complete 2 assignments on Linear Circuits. 4 on Digital Systems. 1 on Electronic Devices and Circuits. 1 on Electrical Machines. I also have to prepare for oral exams for C++ and Electronic Devices and Circuits. And all this must be done in this week. So the fastest manageable speed for me right now is covering 1 page design in 2 days. Which is lame.

So, at this point in time. Only the matter and format of the homepage have been decided. Also he directory structure is all worked out.

The first things to do now are, learning to build a sitemap on my own. And trying to learn to manage the site using one of the free content management systems listed here.

Aditya Shevade