I've published three new sites in the last month!  Most notable for me is the new PACWR.org.  The old PACWR webmaster died last year, and I was selected to replace him.  I chose to host this site using Wordpress.  I generally prefer Drupal but this was intended to be a simpler site, and a perfect test bed for the CMS.

I run the website for a large local non-profit and I have people signing up for accounts every week.  The problem is most of them are spammers, and some simply don't belong; website accounts are for members only.  I have four solutions to this problem:

This article is mostly about one thing: creating a simple little "blog this" bookmark for your web browser.  But it reaches into larger issues of Drupal vs. Wordpress, and D6 vs. D7.

Apparently this is old news, but Google no longer looks at meta tags for SEO.  This is news because for the first 10 years, they did.  It's also news because most SEO "experts" still seem to think that meta tags are important.  The truth is they are, but not for SEO.

The ACWA is a non-profit organization I've belonged to for a very long time, and I recently took over the job of webmaster.  The old site was written in HTML with Dreamweaver, so naturally I upgraded it to Drupal.  Other improvements include:

I've written before about the advantages of Open Source Software, including content management systems like Drupal.  One of the advantages is that there's a whole ecosystem of community-contributed stuff for you to use, including extra functionality and visual themes.  Many of them are quite good.  The result is a much shorter development cycle, which saves you time and money.

So, I recently discovered Drush.  I may be late to the game, but this is the coolest thing since CCK and Views.

Well-known blogger @jkottke (100k+ followers on Twitter) recently said some disparaging things about Go Daddy.  This is confirmation of what I've been saying for years.

Unlike Kottke, I've actually had the displeasure of using Go Daddy.  He's right that they have sexist ads and their owner shoots elephants, but that's not why I hate them.  (Honestly, sex has been used in advertising since long before the internet, I don't really hate them for that.)  Here's why I hate Go Daddy:

I recently rolled out a new site feature on 69thNewYork.com, a site I maintain for a local non-profit.  It sends out at least one tweet every day 1861 (150 years ago).  The headlines of the day were dominated by the American Civil War, which had begun earlier that year.