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6/21/2005

CMS, part III

Filed under:General, Technology, Web Design— arlen@ 10:04 am

OK, WordPress has a new version, so I ported one of my favorite projects The Chessmill to it. The new “pages” system looked like it was going to work. Regular readers know I’ve been using Mambo — no, this doesn’t mean I’m moving away from it. I still use it; I just don’t like depending upon only one source for my tools. I thought WordPress was possibly ready for primetime, now, so I wanted to give it a shot. I use it here, for blogging, and The Chessmill represents a hybrid site, blogging as well as historical articles, so it seemed a natural extension for WordPress.

Nope. I just supplies one more example of an approach that almost, but not quite, succeeds. You need a clue about what’s wrong? Follow the link to Chessmill and look at the mess WordPress calls a navigation structure.
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