A few years ago, I needed a quick and easy way to create a membership site for my Spanish lessons. I wanted to use WordPress for the site, and set off looking for membership software. There are two reasons for wanting a membership site: 1) to build continuity income (members pay a monthly fee), or […]
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Start a WordPress “Membership” site for under $100
By Admin on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 | No Comments
How to Install and Use Pligg’s “RSS Importer”
By Admin on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 | No Comments
“RSS Importer” was dropped in Pligg 1.0.2. The website forum says that it Step 1 – Download For release 1.1.5, I found the most recent install in a link in the “online store” for Pligg. The product “My-RSS” apparently relies on “RSS Importer” to be installed. So the following link worked for me: Download RSS […]
Read More...My Favorite New Features in Joomla 1.6
By Admin on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 | No Comments
Here’s what excites me about Joomla 1.6: 1) Nested categories and bye-bye to sections – When I first learned Joomla, I remember having trouble remembering the hierarchy if sections were made up of categories, or categories were made up of sections. Now we just have categories, which can be nested to multiple depths (like a […]
Read More...What is an LMS? What is a CMS? How are they different?
By Admin on Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | No Comments
An LMS is a “Learning Management System”, typically designed for schools/classrooms to provide content, assignments, quizes, projects, and discussion forums (and sometimes even social networking) to the students. An LMS is basically a CMS dedicated to one purpose, i.e. education/learning. A CMS is more generic, allowing to create pages, blogs, news, links, and sometimes include […]
Read More...Hebrew College Switches from Blackboard to Schoology
By Admin on Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | No Comments
I’m currently working on my MAJS from Hebrew College in Boston, through a distance learning program. I have to attend two classes in Boston at some point (typically a one week summer session), but everything else is done “online”. The school formerly used “Blackboard“, which is one of the larger learning management systems (LMS) in […]
Read More...First Results of PHP-Fusion to WordPress Conversion
By Admin on Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | No Comments
Today, I ran the following steps (elapsed time specified is an extreme high for each step): 1) Used Fantastico from CPanel to install WordPress in a subdirectory called wordpress on http://BizTalk-Training.com. Then did upgrade to 3.0.4 since Fantastico installed 3.0.3. (10 minutes). This will allow us to practice, and build the new site while the […]
Read More...Google Usage Stats Revealed in Amicus Brief
By Admin on Thursday, January 27th, 2011 | No Comments
Google recently filed an “amicus curiae” brief in a New York federal court case where EMI (record label) is suing MP3tunes. According to MP3tunes Founder Michael Robertson, at stake in this case is whether a corporation can store digital assets for a consumer to access later. Google is supporting MP3tunes because its business model depends on […]
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