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| Main Theme | Topics | Posts |
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| General Discussion – This forum is meant for discussions that don't fit in any of the below forum categories. Please look at the forum topics below and post in a corresponding forum before posting here. | 5 | 28 |
| Business – All business talk - starting a new business, tips on building your own web design business, etc. | 0 | 12 |
| Content Management Systems – All about CMS systems that let website owners manage and update their own content. | 7 | 20 |
Drupal – Drupal is one of the leading open source CMS systems. |
69 | 200 |
Wordpress – Wordpress is probably the most popular, well-known, and easy to use blogging platform out there. |
2 | 3 |
Joomla – Joomla is another open source CMS system, very similar to Drupal. According to critics it's slightly easier to use, out of the box, compared to Drupal, but not as powerful and flexible under the hood. |
4 | 7 |
| E-Commerce – This forum is all about e-commerce. Talk about getting your shopping cart and other elements of your e-commerce installation up and running, and share tips with fellow CWD Forum members. | 10 | 37 |
Ebay – Ebay is the most popular online trading site in the world. |
0 | 0 |
Paypal – Paypal is the most popular online payment provider for both personal and business use, and is used by Ebay. |
2 | 8 |
Shopping Carts – Shopping cart software is essential to any e-commerce website. Good shopping cart software providers consumers with a seamless browsing and buying experience. |
12 | 33 |
| Forums – Forum software lets you create a bulletin board for your users to interact. vBulletin, phpBB, and bbPress are some of the more popular options. | 9 | 22 |
| Hardware – This forum is to discuss anything hardware related. From computer equipment to video game consoles to wireless phones and devices. | 10 | 46 |
| Markup Languages – Markup languages make your web pages look like they do. From the early days of HTML to the DOM (Document Object Model) and the proliferation of stylesheets (CSS), this forum focuses on everything from HTML to CSS and XML. | 0 | 0 |
HTML – HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the markup language that got Internet pages and the World Wide web started, and what most pages are still written in today. |
3 | 10 |
CSS – CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Style sheets made the lifes of web designers and developers so much easier, as they could control the layout and format of multiple web pages from one place. |
7 | 21 |
| Operating Systems – Operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows, and the open source competitor Linux, are the interfaces that allow you to interact with and use your computer. | -1 | 0 |
Windows – Microsoft Windows is a closed-source, propietary operating system, and currently the most popular O/S in the world. |
31 | 95 |
Linux – Linux is the open source competitor to Windows. It provides similar functionality, and greater reliability and security. It comes in various flavors, and best of all, is free. |
0 | 0 |
Apple – iOS, OS X, etc. |
1 | 1 |
| Security – This is the forum for all your security concerns. From firewalls to anti-virus and spyware. | 14 | 89 |
| Service Providers – This forum is about the providers of email, hosting, domain registration, and other services. | 1 | 3 |
Email – An email hosting provider such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or Microsoft Exchange Server enable you to send, receive, and organize your emails. |
10 | 27 |
Hosting – A hosting provider lets you host your website online. Hosting providers come in many flavors - from the home-brewed server running out of a garage to huge server farms hosted on multiple continents. |
2 | 6 |
| Software – This forum is dedicated to software. From web applications to software that runs on your PC, wireless device, etc. | 27 | 101 |
Web Applications – Web applications are software apps, typically written in Java or another server-side language, that enable you to run software on the Web. |
4 | 15 |
Web Browsers – Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. enable you to go online and surf the web. |
14 | 47 |
Graphic Design – Covers graphic design software - from Photoshop to GIMP. |
4 | 15 |
Office Applications – Includes Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, etc. |
22 | 63 |
| Testing – The testing forum is for discussing browser compatibilities, crash testing, website validation, and more. | 1 | 3 |
| Troubleshooting – Having trouble getting something to install? Running into error messages over and over again? Ready to tear your hair out? This is your board. Let our community members help you. | 4 | 37 |
Error Messages – Can't get rid of that pesky error message? Let our forum members help you! |
42 | 135 |
Filenames – Is your firewall notifying you of a suspicious filename that's trying to run? Find out if it's legit or not. |
1 | 2 |
| Web Programming – This forum is for web development discussions - coding, scripting, hacking, you name it. From PHP to MySQL, we've got you covered. | -1 | 14 |
JavaScript – JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within both the client application and other applications. |
1 | 6 |