activeCollab

activeCollab

I’ve been working on a review of activeCollab for two days now and planned to finish it up today. However, today I found out that Derek from 5thirtyone.com did a review on it last year and recently compared activeCollab to Basecamp and GoPlan. Both articles are great and give plenty of details on the plus of activeCollab. I personally have never used BaseCamp however I planned to before I came across activeCollab and like the thought of everything being on my server (and free/opensource). For anybody who does freelance work or uses BaseCamp (or others like it) you really should check out activeCollab (assuming you have server resources, although it doesn’t take much). It does require php5 though (which shouldn’t be a major problem as most hosts have it). I’ve been running activeCollab for a few months now but only recently started really using it with my clients (the biggest one being the Lawton Soccer Club). Before we went back and forth on emails and phone calls about the site and its hard to keep things organized and took to much time for me to go through emails and find tasks he wanted done. activeCollab took a huge load off me and makes things much easier. Its also easy to customize to match your company site or just a fresh design. Keep an eye on the activeCollab site and blog as the big release is coming soon with a load of new features.

Site Problems

The site had several problems today but most (if not all) were mine. I have been messing with plugins and WordPress today getting ready to finally put up my new layout (as its been delayed for weeks now). The new layout is just about finished (just messing with WP tags and plugins now) however I had some problems today which caused some sql errors and and wp errors for a few hours. Everything seems to be fixed and working (nothing was lost).

Today was spent mostly offline as we had tons of work to do around the house. We still hadn’t finished unpacking everything and needed to do some clean up. I also finally finished getting my computer setup and organizing my desk. Still have work to do but not this weekend. Tomorrow starts my first day back to client work in about two weeks and trust me the stack of work has been growing. I use activeCollab as my project management software to communicate with clients and organize work lists and after logging in yesterday to check up on some things before the week starts and found a ton of new tasks had been added (including some coding work). I might get an early start and do a little work tonight.