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Resources and Notes

Blogging/Content Management Programs

Textpattern
Familycreative.com is powered by Textpattern, as are many of our websites. Initially developed by Dean Allen of Textism, it has matured into quite a nice little content management solution.

Wordpress
“WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.” Their words, not mine.

Movable Type
Nearly everyone uses this blogging program. That’s probably because it’s good. Six Apart is a pretty smart company.

Blogger.com
A good place to start if you just want a simple blog.

Useful Sites

A List Apart
The grandaddy of web design sites will teach you everything about web design, writing for the web, coding practices, accessibility, and cooking. Well, maybe not cooking.

Digital Web
“The web professional’s online magazine of choice.”

Sitepoint
Excellent articles, blogs, and forums about design and development for the web.

Textdrive
Web hosting for the technically inclined.

Link o' the Week

John Vanderslice Interview

43 Folder's Merlin hosts a hilarious and super interesting interview with John Vanderslice. "Merlin talks with San Francisco indie rocker John Vanderslice about life as an independent musician — the siren song of advance money, the ascendance of the MP3 blog, and how to try and craft a long career in the face of “sleazy merchants.” (Note: Contains PG-13 language)"