Jane Talks Tech!

If you've suddenly discovered the internet and decide the world needs your voice, there are several content management systems (CMS) a.k.a. blogging systems you can choose from. Some of the more visible & open source projects include WordPress, Drupal, Joomla. The 'not so new' contender on the scene is Habari. I've written and linked to articles talking about technical advantages of switching to Habari. ...

It's been over eight months since I migrated my blog (Jane Talks Tech!) from Wordpress to Habari. It wasn't done lightly and I did my due diligence by creating a test installation of Habari, making sure the importer worked, ironing out issues (credit entirely due to the devs in the Habari IRC channel) and finally pulling the trigger. That said, my experience with Habari has been a rollercoaster, but I'm still hanging on. :P I feel connected to this fledgling blogging system and believe it has a strong chance of surviving in the crowded content management ...

First thing: I'm *not* a coder, but I've got the next best thing: search engines like Bing, Google and DuckDuckGo on my side. For every theme I've used on the blogging software running my blogs (janetalkstech.com and fadingwhispers.org/home), I've ended up editing the theme's files to include some small features I admired in previously used themes (see a list of available themes for Habari). This particular post will attempt to go over little tweaks I've made to the current theme (Georgia by Thomas Silkjær) running this blog as of 06/15/2010. By the way, ...

So, I finally got around to re-downloading Windows Live Writer which IS the dominant desktop software for creating/editing blog posts. Setting up a Wordpress blog is very easy in Windows Live Writer. In Habari, there's just a little more work that needs to be done to simplify things. For starters, the metaweblogAPI method for posting is not enabled by default in Habari. A plugin does that trick and unfortunately, the documentation of that plugin does little to help you set it up through blogging clients like Windows Live Writer (WLW). Thankfully, andyc has a good post on setting up ...

I've been a Wordpress user for the longest time. I love the easy out-of-box experience of Wordpress. However, I got bored and began wanting to something else that was different from all the content management systems out there. I've toyed with Drupal, but there are way too many things to click just to get things done. Then, I heard about Habari again and decided to give it a try. ...