Video of Ethan Marcotte’s The Map and the Territory
Ethan Marcotte was one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Joomla World Conference in Boston. Ethan’s keynote address was called the “The Map and…
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Writing a Book
There are three kinds of people in this world: Those who are going to write a book. Those who are not going to write a…
Permalink Finder: No More WordPress 404 Errors
404 errors have always been a fact of life for websites. A 404 is better known as a “page not found” or a “broken URL”…
Learning Launch: WordPress Jetpack
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,…
WordPress 3.7 Video Introduction
WordPress 3.7 was released last week. In this blog post we’ll give you a video introduction to what’s new in 3.7. 3.7 was a really…
Open Writing and Publishing Platforms
Traditional publishing is awful. If you’ve written a book, you know what I mean. Writing a book through an old-fashioned publisher is slow, bureaucratic and…
Using Frameworks to Build Websites and Web Applications
Even if you only build websites using CMSs, you’ve probably heard the word “framework” before. You’ve probably also heard of a few famous web frameworks,…
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Copywriting
The art of writing for the web has innumerable forms. No matter what you are asked to write, you’ll succeed if you focus on the 7…
Brent Laminack Joins Us to Expand Web Services
We’re delighted to welcome Brent Laminack to the OSTraining team. Brent has joined to help us to open a web services department here at OSTraining.…
Learning Launch: Learning jQuery by Jonathan Chaffer
Every month, OSTraining members get a new, professional-quality book to download. The book for November is “Learning jQuery” by Jonathan Chaffer. Javascript and jQuery are…
5 Videos to Get Anyone Started with Drupal Themes
If you haven’t worked with Drupal themes before, then you’re in the right place. These 5 videos average less than 5 minutes each and cover…
Taking the Absolute Beginners Guide on Tour
Over the last few years, we’ve taught over 600 training classes of many different shapes and sizes. The Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal is probably our…
Take Pride in Your Work – Lessons from The Potter
I vicariously went through art school with friends, back when the Earth was still warm. One potter in particular remains an inspiration in my life.…
Learning Launch: Drupal Organic Groups 2
18 months ago, we released our first class for Organic Groups (OG). OG is the major social networking module for Drupal and that first class…
Review of WPEngine WordPress Hosting
Hosting is probably the fastest growing segment of the WordPress industry. There’s several large and well-funded options out there, offering hosting that’s tuned specifically for…
Join Us at the Joomla World Conference in Boston
After a successful debut in 2012, the Joomla World Conference returns next month. This years conference is at Harvard University from November 8th to 10th.…
How to Build a WordPress Blog in Drupal
There’s a phrase commonly used by Drupal fans: “If you want to build a blog, use WordPress. If you want to bulld WordPress, use Drupal.”…
What Chess Has Taught Me About Copywriting
The goal of the game of chess is to capture your opponent’s king, before yours is captured. To chess aficionados, those of us who play…
Learning Launch: Introduction to Javascript
Javascript is becoming an increasingly important tool for websites. Elsewhere on the blog this week we covered the launch of Ghost, a blogging platform built…
Day 1 Review of the Ghost Blogging Platform
We’ve covered Ghost before on this site. Ghost is designed to be nothing but a blog. It was built to be a simpler, lightweight alternative…