Site News

Firstly, I hope you like the updated site. A little colour goes a long way. Now, on to the techi stuff ....

For those of you who do not know what CMS is here is a brief description.

A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content management. This includes computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies using a CMS file share with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability."

Over the weekend of 22/09/07 I changed my web host from www.34sp.com to www.happyserver.co.uk. This was a necessary step as 34sp had php safe-mode enabled. More importantly, I wanted a site where band width was not an issue and one where user inter-activity can run without error.

CMS System

After living with ModX for 6 months, I went searching for another CMS. I wanted a system that was not as complex or as heavy as Modx, but would retain most of its features and functions. I stumbled across sNews. Et voila............. Sorted or so I thought. In October of 2008 I upgraded to Drupal.

"Drupal is an open source PHP and MySQL driven tool for publishing and maintaining news articles on a website.

If you are not happy with the web browser you are using, why not get Firefox. Use the link provided to download a copy and put away Internet Explorer.

By the way my site design validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict, using valid CSS and has been tested in Mozilla Firefox and IE6 and IE7 and Opera browsers.
I may at a later stage integrate a Blog or forum, but for the time being I am happy to let things settle without betting too ambitious. No point having facilities which are not used.

End of Techi bit