making money online

Drupal.org   is a really good content management system, it has a lot of advantages.

I have been looking for some type of CMS for a long time, I have spent countless hours installing software and learning how it works only to find out that it has so many bugs that I would spend a lot less time just doing my own HTML like I am doing with this site.

For a PHP program it was amazingly easy to set up, less monkeying with the code than any other I have tried.

The biggest surprise was after I had it set up there was no link back to Dupral.org on any of the pages.

Php-Nuke has 6 or 8 links that I couldn't remove on each and every page, so this was really a nice surprise not to see any.

The structure is a little tricky in that it has modules that you must load in, but this is kind of nice if your not going to use all the features, and I am not all that interested in polling people or having people log into my web page.

I think forcing someone to login in when you have no reason for them to login is one of the dumbest things on the internet.

Once I got it set up there were two options to create a story or a page, the pages you can put in categories but the pages go somewhere and I never saw them again.

Dupral also lets you create your own static pages when you enter your text.

This is huge not to have PHP pages that the search engines don't like, besides they just look bad.

The only real problem I have with using it is that the menu is really weak, it is set up like a blog.

If you want a blog your in luck, if you don't want 200 word summaries on each article on your homepage then your out of luck.

I was never able to work out any kind of menu that could reach all the articles and have any kind of order.

You also needed to create a menu for each page which is a lot of extra trouble, if I am going to that much trouble I can just write it myself.

So it looks like this was as close as any program has come to working for me, but I am still back to writing HTML pages and linking them myself. It ends up taking less time and I get what I want that way.

April 12, 2005

• Money Making Web Site

  My first thoughts were to figure out how to write web pages and try to make money selling web sites or free lance programming for people who want to set up a site on the internet. Feb 5, 2005

• PostNuke CMS

  not that hard to set up, looks like a useful piece of software.