The Outserve Limited Blog

Welcome to the Outserve Limited’s blog. The main Outserve website is at http://www.outserve.co.uk click the link here if you would like a look. The Outserve website features the open source products and services offered by Outserve and also features any relevant news amd announcements. The Outserve blog is less formal and more of a discussion covering topics that are related to the work of Outserve but allowing comments and links to other material. We hope you like the the blog but please feel free to leave a comment or email comments@outserve.co.uk.

The Outserve blog runs on the latest version of WordPress which is an open source content management system specifically designed to make blogging quick and easy although many people use WordPress to run their whole website. With WordPress it is as easy to create pages and static content as it is to create blogposts. The main Outserve website uses Joomla! (sorry the ! is part of the name) another open source content management system that we feel is better suited to managing our website. As with WordPress, Joomla! can also be used solely or partially for a blog. As with nearly all software Outserve looks at solutions on an individual organisation basis and recommends what fits best taking into consideration invidual or organisations requirements.

If you would like any advise on Open Source Content Management systems please so not hesitate to contact us by clicking on the contact us link here.

Finally just for anyone who is interested I have put below part of the wikipedia entry describing blogs the complete entry can be seen here.

A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual [1], with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[2] With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.