Good Writing Never, Ever Changes
I make my living as a writer, but I consider myself a lowly farm boy when it comes to teaching writers how to keep readers…
Learning Launch: Drupal Theming Part 2
We’re pleased to announce the release of next portion of our Drupal Theming Course. We’re taking you step-by-step through the process of creating Drupal themes.…
A Video Introduction to WordPress 3.8
WordPress 3.8 is due out on December 12th. Last week we provided you with a video overview of MP6, which will be a new design for…
An Ethical Statement for Web Companies
I found an interesting page this weekend: an ethical statement for a webdesign company, Stuff and Nonsense is the website of Andrew Clarke who wrote…
Show Drupal Users Their Own Content
If you have multiple content creators on your site, you may want to make their life easier. One way that you can help is by…
3 Ways to Overcome Your Writing Frustration
As a book comes to life, it flows through the stages of conception, growth, birth, being a demanding vomitus insufferable brat, and entering society as…
The State of Drupal 8: November 2013
Over the last two years, we’ve been running a series called The State of Drupal 8. With each post in the series, we aim to…
Video Introduction to MP6, the New WordPress Admin
WordPress 3.8 is due to launch in December. The biggest change will be a major redesign of the admin area. At the beginning of this…
Cyber Monday: OSTraining, sh404SEF and Joomla Bamboo
Our Cyber Monday offer is here and it’s loaded with Joomla goodness. If you become a Pro Member at OSTraining, you always get over 1500…
What’s Your Favorite Work-Life Balance Book?
This week is Thanksgiving here in the U.S. The normal way to think about Thanksgiving is that it’s a family holiday. People don’t go on…
Drupal 7.24 and 6.29: tmp directory and .htaccess
Drupal 7.24 and 6.29 were released in mid-November. Both versions contained security fixes. One of the fixes is described as “Code execution prevention”. The Drupal…
What Riding a Motorcycle Taught Me About Writing
I’ve owned five motorcycles in the past 30 years and ridden tens of thousands of prayer-packed, injury-free miles. The lessons I’ve learned from riding motorcycles…
Learning Launch: WordPress Jetpack Part 2
Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins in WordPress. Created by Automattic, the team behind WordPress.com, Jetpack adds lots of important features to WordPress,…
Matt Mullenweg: Users Should Never Know WordPress Has Updated
Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, gave one of the keynote addresses at this year’s Joomla World Conference. Of course, it was interesting that the…
Dede CMS, the Most Popular CMS in China
Earlier this month, I gave a presentation about the importance of making open source more international. At one point I claimed that “no country needs…
Drupal Menu Permissions Explained
With some CMSs such as Joomla, menus are very powerful features. They can control layouts, permissions, metadata and much more. In Drupal, menus have almost…
NotFound.org Gives 404 Pages a Useful Social Purpose
404 error pages are a necessary, but unpopular fact of life for most sites. Every website needs a 404 page, just in case people use…
We’re Hiring a PHP Developer
We’re looking to hire a PHP developer. As our company grows, we have an increasing number of development projects on ostraining.com and for client projects.…
Bring OSTraining Videos Into Your Company’s Website
Are you looking to train your staff members? Are you looking to provide training to your customers? If you answered “yes” to either question, we’ve…
One Week of Allowing Anyone to Track Me Online
Over the last week, I’ve deliberately let anyone track me online. Normally, I’m a little paranoid about my privacy and use the Ghostery and Adblock…