Open Source Web Design

Learn to Design Web Themes and Templates with New Wiki
Shreves, a partner in Water & Stone, an open source web development company, went on to say that “Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, Plone, Modx — whatever — none of the clients really care and frankly it matters less and less as time goes by. ...

How Open Source (Ideas) Can Win the War and Save the Auto Industry
A clothing company sent me a release not too many months ago about their new open source clothing line. After close inspection they meant design your own outfit from their catalog of designs that they owned. It wasn’t open source but I ...

Git, Ditz and Microformats
With both Gitorious and Github wrapping Git in a shiny web based interface that focuses on these social aspects it will be interesting to see if this leads to more or faster Open Source collaboration efforts. Tagged Git, Ruby, Ditz, ...

Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges
For further commentary, read Ryan Stewart's The Open Web is Slow and his article on ZDNet titled Why I don’t think open source Flash [Player] is necessary, wherein he states:. But that's not to say Adobe shouldn't continue to try and be ...

We’re re-doing our website
Kitsap Web Design has been powered by Wordpress for quite some time now and just recently we've decided to move on to another open source platform that would render more functionality, especially in the development genre of it all. ...

Themes for WordPress 2.5 and Web 3.0 Design and Functionality
If you haven’t tried it out yet, it’s most certainly worth every second you spend, and since it’s open source, the price is right, the experience is invaluable, and the hits just keep on coming! Christopher Conlan is Managing Director ...

PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Biilllliooonnnn Users, Dr Evil would be proud
Picking an open source database is now just picking for reliability, since that is the one thing that open source databases have in common right now... that and a plethora of drivers for almost any situation. ...

Nagios - Open Source Host, Service and Network Monitoring Program
Monitoring of environmental factors such as temperature; Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks; Ability to define network host hierarchy, allowing detection of and distinction between ...

"Shiftspace": a Meta-Web Of, By, and For Users
ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. . . . ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of ...

Sometimes the "Old Way" is the Best Way
So my website will never be flashy, that much I've come to accept. However, it serves it's purpose and in the end that is all that really matters. It may not win an award for web design, but at least it helps people find the information ...