Frontier India Technology

I used to work for an IT – Web development company in the Business Development department. Hardware, software or concepts, I was the king. My interest in defence and strategic issues led me to book abcxyx.com domain. Thats when all my troubles started.

I had no working knowledge of HTML. A lot of friends pitched in. But the question of sustained publication came into issue. HTML was not the solution. Microsoft technologies are not for the cost minded people. It is ok for large enterprises. Buying a windows web server package was costly too. I had little knowledge of php mysql.

Someone recommended content management system based on php/mysql and specifically, Drupal. Drupal is the king of CMS’s. It is free. I bought a web server space and started installing Drupal. Even if you read the installation guide for Drupal (or any other CMS for the first time), it can be quite intemedating. Any way, trial and error, reading and practicing, I installed Drupal. Next I realized, Drupal needs html skills (then) for posting content. I searched around for more CMS’s, I got mambo, Xoops , wordpress etc. I started learning the basics of php.

Wordpress was a blogging software, so out of question. Mambo was more popular than xoops, at least used to win awards. So, I deleted my Drupal installation and uploaded Mambo.

Mambo was ok for a beginner. Installation was easy. Php knowledge helped. Learnt a lot of tricks of CMS. While, it was going great, my search engine rankings were not great. The SEO package costed something. Another interesting development happened, mambo developers split and made Joomla. That was it! I decided to look around.

Blogs were in news. Hence, I headed to wordpress, installed, and tested it. Migrating my website to wordpress would have created issues. So copied my key content to wordpress and bingo, it was ready. I deleted the mambo install, it was burning bridges, no looking back.

Meanwhile my php/sql skills and web server re-selling picked up via Frontier India Technology. I had quit the old company and started on my own. I bagged quite a few websites and I built it on wordpress.

Wordpress is a blogging software, but, can be made look like a website instead of blog. A lot of themes and plugins to support wordpress users. Its easy to install. You need to know working knowledge (if expert , nothing like it) of php/mysql to maintain wordpress. But its lot easier than other CMS in my opinion.

Having said all that, if your needs are not serious, many companies offer free blogs. If you need your own blog with own url, wordpress is a good option. Some free blog providers like “Blogspot” allow you to use your own domain name too.  If you need a website that can be updated regularly, you can consider wordpress. If you are very newbie to web and need a CMS, I can do it for you for a fee.

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