Speckyboy.com has posted mini-reviews of several forum scripts, some that work with WordPress or other CMS’s and some stand-alone: 20 Forum Addons & Extensions
More Ways To Create A Forum With Or Without WordPress
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Category Archives: Site Development
Turn Your WordPress Into A Forum
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A great roundup by Noupe.com of several themes to turn your WordPress blog into a forum and more: Extending Your WordPress
Are Your 404 Pages THIS Awesome ?
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The worlds most awesome-ist 404 page: WWW.Nosh.Me/404
Does Your Website Have The Right ‘Tone’ ?
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A great writeup at SixRevisions.com about the “tone of voice” of your website. This is something that I considered almost from day-one when creating GrownUpGeek.com, but many webmasters that I’ve spoken with have never thought-of or considered it. The ‘tone’ of your website or community is one of the most important factors when visitors are deciding if they’ll ever come back: How To Develop Your Website’s Tone of Voice
Keep Track of What You Break!
Do you make a lot of changes to your site?
Do you realize later that you broke something?
Do you pull out your hair because you don’t remember exactly what you changed days or weeks ago?
..yah, me too.
I can’t remember how many times I’ve made a bunch of changes, installed new modules, change my Apache config, deleted modules, etc, then find something broken days or even weeks later. What’s more frustrating is remembering “i know I changed something.. I just can’t remember exactly what!”
There is a easy way to avoid this frustration: Keep a simple “change-log” of everything you do. Create a txt file and keep in a handy location – like on your desktop. Every time you change something, jot it down in the file. For example:
Dec 12 9:50AM - changed Boost-module cache settings to 9-hrs
Dec 11 10:20pm - changed PHP.INI memory_limit = 16M to memory_limit = 32M
It’s simple and free, and I can’t tell you how many times it’s saved my butt.. I also can’t tell you how many times i’ve kicked myself for being lazy and NOT recording something in my changelog file and realizing days later that something is broke and I can’t remember what I did to break it.
Apache Log Viewer For iPad
The other day I stumbled across Log View’s System File Log Viewer which let’s you view all of your server system logs via cPanel/WHM. System File Log Viewer is a must-have if you ever need to run your site from your iPad or even your iPhone (if you have good eyes) because it lets you view your system logs via the WHM/cPanel HTML interface instead of via SSH which is difficult to use on the iPad at best.
System File Log Viewer is simple to install (even I could figure it out!) and free from www.logview.org. If you have an iPad/iPhone or if you just don’t like to fuss with SSH and that silly command-line, you should give it a try.