With iPhone 3G hitting the market and high speed internet access is easily available on cell phone, more people are using their cell phones to browse internet. Access to internet via mobile grew up to 147% in 2007 and is expected to take a huge jump after the 3G networks & cell phones goes common. Being a blogger its time you should think about accessibility of your blog from a cell phone. So how do you make your blog cell phone friendly. (more…)

The phenomena of twitter has picked up so much pace that now the good people at Automattic the people behind wordpress has launched Prologue a twitter theme in wordpress. The concept of twitter was to ask a simple question “What are you doing” and it helped us keep track of our friends, what we are upto, where are we and so on. So now the Wordpress Twitter or i must say the Wordpress Prologue brings twitter to the loving society of Wordpress.

Basically how it works is when someone has the ability to post to a blog they see a short form at the top of the home page with a post box and tags. There they can post short messages about what they’re doing. Below the posting box is a list of everyone’s latest tweet or message, with their Gravatar next to it. You can click on an author to see all their messages, or a tag to see all of the messages in a given tag (which we use for projects). There are RSS feeds for everything: the entire prologue, each author, each tag, and even combination or searches can be subscribed to in your RSS reader.

You can have a custom header to personalize the Prologue for your group, and just like any WordPress.com blog you have advanced privacy options: the blog can be public, public but invisible to search engines, and password-protected (available only to members).

Just like a blog post, each message in the prologue can have comments, and of course each comments thread has its own RSS feed. (Just like in regular WP.)

To get a real idea check out the Demo by clicking here. 

Source : Prologue 

Initially i launched Ideas2o two weeks back using drupal, custom designed the drupal theme added modules and launched the site online. But to my continuous effort drupal didn’t perform the way i wanted. The load time for the site was way beyond my quality control, the 404 error pages kept on showing with little or no traffic on the site and some how it didn’t run as stable as i predicted. No doubt drupal is a very strong and very powerful system but it has its flaws.

• It loads too many modules thus increasing the load time of the site
• The system is quite complicated and takes too much time to make it perfect.
• Some modules work with some version while other don’t
• Modules in drupal some times conflict with each others like Drivers in Windows
• The system is packed with jquery so prototype and other JavaScript libraries don’t work.
• Image handling in blog is horrible and you have to use modules which requires further time and are not as perfect as you require
• There is no editor in drupal so for that you have to go for another module and it ads further complications.

So after fighting with these complications i had no other option but to close it down and shift back to good old WordPress, and the lesson learned always use a CMS that fits best on your requirements. Drupal is a social network system which is its core functionality and my requirement was to set up a blogging system where i can share knowledge and write on the topic that are interesting and exciting. So for that wordpress is the best solution, its easy, its fast and its reliable.

Next > Re-Design and Improvement on the theme .