Serendipity, The Excellent Open Source
Who am I, to find that Serendipity is absolutely better blog software on the planet? Well, I will admit, I did that blog software for 6 months. I tried only by chance Word Press and Nucleus. However, I have more than 20 Web sites complete with software in all areas. I Mambo, Joomla, Nucleus, WordPress, Serendipity, Java Servlets and JSP, HTML pages and Serendipity is my favorite.
I work as a programmer for 15 years and with Java (as software engineering) for the last 10 years. I have most of the time, that time in close collaboration with various Web technologies. Of course, I am not expert on the blog, but I have a little experience with the software. Serendipity is a good program.
Serendipity is an engine of blog. A blog is simply a number of messages to a Web page, sometimes organized, and sometimes by chance. You are too quick to gather thoughts, but has recently developed Web sites, engines sophisticated blog. I think the engine blogs and full convergence solutions CMS. If what you need is a simple system and menuing a means of content on the web, then maybe an engine for blogs, in particular, by chance, it is what you want.
Serendipity Installation was a breeze, either on GoDaddy and HostGator. The default installation went well, except, of course, that GoDaddy not your MySQL database on localhost “, but on another server. Once you know that the server name, it’s all good.
Once installed, changing styles is also very simple. Serendipity is integrated into a number of themes / templates that installing a snap. Basically, you just manage to go in management styles “and select your new theme. It could not be more simple.
Changing patterns is also very simple. Most users who want to simply change color or graphics, and it can be done throughout the style.css file for your model. I chose to make a copy of the “competition” and, if my presentation copy. Everything that I had to modify the file style.css info.txt and my photos on img repertoire, and I felt good. Of course, there is no need to do so, but if you want to look unique to your site.
The addition of content, which seems Serendipity. I found the interface simple and intuitive, especially for media management. Imagine that you have an item and you want to add an image. Simply click on the media, in the URL of the article, you want to add, and it is clear from Serendipity, and pulled down and put it in its own directory. Then you can choose how you want it to in the text (left, right, on his own), and whether or not you want, full of images or images. Excellent!
Definition of categories and use is just as easy, and you can nest categories, if you wish. Each category can be a description and an image. The description appears when the user having their cursor over the class, I am not sure when / if the image is displayed.
Serendipity has options to use search engine friendly URLs, but for some reason, I was not able to display correctly on GoDaddy. I am sure that this is simply an update, I could ask in the forum by chance, but not yet. Adding a slash at the address seems rewritten to access the page to look, but I am. “Htaccess” Knowledge is not good enough for itself to solve. The URL Rewriting it works on HostGator. Remember, the URL is not friendly does not mean that you will not receive then said, but only that there is a little longer. Similarly, the SEO friendly URLs tend to increase your ranking a bit, because they have the object directly in the URL.
What about the integration of advertisements in Serendipity? Serendipity has a solution to these also. It is a plug-in (Serendipity), the name of HTML Nugget. It allows you to add any HTML code to one of the pillars of the Sidebar, and perfect for the tour Google ads or links to affiliate programs. It takes me every 5 minutes, until one of my ads on pages. Nucleus certainly me a little longer, I had to manually edit some of their files. Not very well.
On the whole, as I Serendipity, it is true, until it is with Joomla as my favorite piece of Open Source Software. The development team has done a fantastic job and I am happy to concentrate on other versions of their superb.
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