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And the Best CMS Awards Go to

A while ago, we published an article and editorial about the nominations to the Packt CMS Awards. After a long period of voting, the results are in and controversy is out. This year's winners are WordPress, Plone, ImpressCMS and Drupal (yes, again). Considered an equivalent of the “Best New Act” aw...

14 November 2009
05:58 GMT

Gumblar Crashes WordPress and Joomla Websites

Independent security researcher Denis Sinegubko has recently stumbled upon a new version of the Gumblar Web botnet that has quite a craving for PHP CMS-driven websites. Mr. Sinegubko has discovered that this latest version (“untested version” as he refers to it) has until now affected more than 300,000 PH...

5 November 2009
10:36 GMT

Template Monster Rolls Out First Flash CMS Templates

Six Flash CMS templates appeared a couple of days ago on Template Monster's website, marking the first time a company rolled out and sold a Flash CMS template. This product comes from a joint-venture between Template Monster and FlashMoto to build Flash-powered CMSs that bring the shine and beauty of Flash websi...

9 October 2009
09:04 GMT

The World's Greatest CMS

I wrote this editorial after the recent nominees for the Open Source CMS Award from Packt were released to the public a few weeks ago. After passing through a testing, updating and indexing process with all the nominees, some useful tips, details and conclusions can be presented to help readers in their voting proces...

8 October 2009
07:56 GMT

Vote for the Best Open Source CMS

Everybody likes award ceremonies, especially those in which regular people vote for the winner. Maybe this is the reason why the Packt Open Source CMS Award has managed to consolidate itself as a realistic and meaningful prize for the best open source CMSs around. After a month-long open nomination process, voting ha...

8 October 2009
03:09 GMT

Template Monster Will Supply Templates for a Promising Flash Startup CMS

Template Monster has announced a partnership with FlashMoto to provide Flash website templates for its new and highly anticipated CMS. With critics praising the new FlashMoto CMS as the greatest tool for webmasters since the launch of Joomla and Drupal, anxiety grows towards the FlashMoto official release this Septem...

29 August 2009
05:16 GMT

Joomla Shuts Down 1.0.X Support

Starting as a Mambo spin-off, the groundbreaking Joomla 1.0.X series has been pulled off the market after four years in the top CMSs on the web. The Joomla community has decided to stop all development tasks, security upgrades and community support for the first version of the Joomla CMS, the 1.0.X series, and concen...

4 August 2009
06:29 GMT

WordPress Declares 2.0.X Editions as Deprecated

In a blog post from WordPress, blog users have been informed that the 2.0.X branch has been declared deprecated and no more security updates will be available from now on. Even if WordPress officially committed to sustaining security improvements and porting many modern features in the 2.0.X editions, the monumental...

1 August 2009
06:16 GMT

Drupal Gets Facebook Connect and OpenID Support

Drupal, one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), has gotten a lot more social with the release of a new module allowing users to authenticate using popular login standards like Facebook Connect or OpenID. The module, called Socialize, was developed by Gigya, a startup with experience in social media ...

25 July 2009
03:49 GMT

Cartella Unified Social CMS Leverages ASP.NET MVC

With Cartella, Ingeniux is marrying social networking with web content management. Ingeniux is essentially aiming to win business customers with the first unified social content management application built on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. Streamlining the management of social content in enterprise environments, Cartella�...

4 May 2009
10:19 GMT

Microsoft Free Oxite Blog Engine Available for Download

Microsoft has made its Oxite blog engine available as a free download. The Redmond company is in fact offering the source code for Oxite via its Codeplex repository, in a move especially aimed to attract web content developers and designers familiar with ASP.NET MVC. On the official CodePlex page for Oxite, Microsoft...

9 December 2008
06:55 GMT

Build Your Automatic News Website Using Memetracking

News sites are and always have been popular and at some point many web developers felt the need to start one for a particular group of people or a particular field of interest, for a local community or for their college campus. The problem with creating a successful news website is content maintenance. In addition to...

30 July 2008
10:41 GMT

WYSIWYG Plugins for WordPress

WYSIWYG editor allows the separation of content creation from website layout building. In case of WordPress content management system, the default WYSIWYG editor does not provide the opportunity to edit and create HTML tables in a visual manner.When it is required to introduce or format a table in a post or a static...

26 June 2008
11:49 GMT

Automatic Building of Joomla! Templates with WYSIWYG Editors

The manual creation or customization of templates for Joomla! Content management system could be a complex task for beginners. The existence of template development tools that integrate with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web authoring applications will definitely simplify the process of building custom temp...

24 June 2008
13:02 GMT

Installation of Diferior on Windows

We are always looking for applications that have a high performance, multiple features, and that are easy to install and compatible with all commonly used operating systems. As far as the particular case of CMS (content management systems) goes, various choices are available, from many free or commercial projects.In ...

29 May 2008
12:28 GMT

Easy Changing of WordPress Themes Colors With IrfanWiew

The WordPress platform can be used without any restriction or limitation for any purpose when you want to build a new website or to redesign an already existing one. Due to the fact that this PHP/MySQL application is a content management system that separates the content from the website layout, know that after you ...

22 April 2008
11:21 GMT

Building Websites with TYPOLight

A Website built using web standards will always be easy to use, maintain and promote through search engines. This type of website can be made manually by gathering together all necessary elements or automatically with the help of a content management system. Not all content management systems applications will have ...

14 April 2008
11:25 GMT

Contrexx 1.2 Released

The market of content management systems very often experiences new arrivals. Since CMS applications are the basic tools for development and maintenance of websites, the evolution of content management systems determines the improvement of their functionalities through the implementation of latest web programming te...

17 March 2008
12:09 GMT

Free or Commercial CMSs?

The target of any website owner is to get a higher audience for the content presented over the Internet. But if a website looks old or does not have enough visitors to form a desired audience, you should consider to apply a website redesign in the direction of a new content presentation form. If the website content ...

27 February 2008
12:02 GMT

CMS Is Finally Completed

Yet another step in the completion of the Large Hadron Collider was taken yesterday morning, as the final element of the Compact Muon Solenoid was lowered nearly 100 meters bellow ground. After more than eight years of work at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists hope that they will be able...

23 January 2008
08:27 GMT

Tips to Improve Joomla Performance

When you are using the Joomla content management system, the overall site performance could be affected by various factors. Moreover, if you have many site users, the page loading speed could be influenced by the simultaneous number of MySQL database queries. In order to obtain the best results for the page loading s...

18 August 2007
06:41 GMT


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