Category Archives: site

Moved my site onto a different publishing system

My blog has been running on an open source CMS (content management system) called Textpattern since 2004. Whilst I believe that this is an excellent CMS, it has to be said that development of the core by the open source community has been very limited for the last few years. I wish I had the

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Changing the look and feel of the site

I had a spare half-hour last night so decided to bite the bullet, implement a templating system (oddly, Textpattern – the CMS used for this site – does not have one as standard) and install a simple blogging style template. I had a to make a few changes to support my particular configuration but that

Blogging with LiveWriter

I have had a few queries about what I use to blog. I currently use Microsoft’s LiveWriter. It is good and free. There are lots of plug-ins available to add facilities. I tend to keep things simple though. I have used most of the desktop blogging tools, some of the web front ends, and a