I'm re-doing one of my domains with textpattern or wordpress. I considered drupal, but to be honest, I want something with a little stronger 3rd party support. There are several features & functionalities missing in drupal which I need. For a site from scratch or one with content generated from within drupal, all is well. For those working with 3rd party apps already, well, it may or may not work (or even be available).Drupal templating is also notoriously tough to work with, although with the new css zen template, it is easier to give it a look which is not straight out of the box.

I have a kind of old video/dvd converter/player thingie which works OK, but compatibility is a serious problem.The problem I am having now is that apparently only DVD+RW VIDEO works in my machine. I am also wondering if only the Maxwell brand ones will work.I recently transferred a conference meeting to DVD but something went terribly wrong -- sound is almost nonexistent (no it's not like that on the original recording). I used a DVD+RW disc, but apparently I need to find one that also designates Video. Can you download firmware upgrades for standalone dvd players?

Occasionally, I answer a question and I think, hmmm... maybe I should turn that into a blog post...In response to a question on the best web authoring tool for someone just getting started -- under consideration - a content management system (CMS) such as drupal as well as creating individual webpages.

Hello & welcome to my mostly professional journal blog. I write about all sorts of things that interest me -- mostly web stuff, cool new technologies, a sprinkling of art stuff, etc. So, who am I? Well, that depends on the day of the week, I suppose. I am indeed an artist. Although, I currently work in the very textural elements of handmade paper, oil stick, and other materials, including the occasional digital or photographic image, in reality, I am truly an assemblage artist. I use whatever formats are at hand, to achieve my vision.

So, I've been trying to figure out if I want to move to wordpress.com or use wordpress.org on my domain, or do something entirely different (I'm running drupal on my domain). Occasionally, I have considered moving over to wordpress.com as well... I like wordpress. It's not so much that I hate blogger, it's ok, but I've been wanting to do something with all of my baby* blogs for a long while. Anyhow, back when I created the baby* blogs, blogger didn't offer labels or categories (well, they still don't offer true categories). Wordpress.com wasn't available.

I'm going to add this to my e-zine list, but I think this e-zine template for wordpress looks really good.I do wonder about the pre-publishing and issue creation, though. One of the advantages of pacercms is that I can create the issues prior to publication. I do think draft posts could accomplish some of that, but...

Although the introduction of this article is overly simplified in terms of the changes in library technology (I couldn't help but laugh a little in a couple of places) , once you're past that, the rest is a good little overview of some of the more popular opensource products.

5000 resources to do just about anything onlineI love mashable and I can't possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the 'net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+ podcasting tools, 12+ twitter tools, etc. Lots and lots of wordpress stuff. ;-)

So you want to create an online newsletter, a magazine or e-zine? What should you use?There are many choices, some of which depend on budget size. My budget size= ZERO dollars.My investigation actually began in May with Drupal. These were reviewed as of August 2007.System requirements for most of these (but not all): Apache or IIS server; MySQL or another db server; PHP ; also: installation experience; templating; CSS, patience

• Drupal => Opensource. Largescale CMS (content management system); hosted on your server.

1. Have a vision.Check. I had that one a year ago (a regional arts magazine with topics both about art and by artists)2. Funding.The amount of $ you have to spend will affect everything else3. Hosting? Find a place to host it.I used some extra webspace I have.4.