Tag: CMS

Joomla!, the open-source content-management system has reached a major milestone today with the release of Joomla! 1.5. Like similar projects WordPress and Drupal can be used to drive a blog or full website. Joomla!, which formed in 2005 as a fork of Mambo has a strong developer community and focuses on being simple, elegant and flexible. The API has received significant updates in Joomla! ...

When it comes to finding out what tech related news items peers find the most important, Digg is probably king. And while Digg also features political news, arts stories, and other subjects, there are some topics that you just aren't likely to find. Enter Blingd. This site serves all the freshest hip hop news items, in a Digg social story submission style. It's easy to see that every aspect of ...

The web is often a much more stable, avaliable, adaptive, and usable environment for businesses than hacking together old Excel spreadsheet and sharing them via a network drive. It can also be far cheaper than adopting the Sun, Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle software stack's to manage information and customers. That said, the pressure is still on the web service providers to keep finding ways to ...

The heat is on once again in the online calendar sector. It seemed like the news was always pumping out on this front late last year, then things cooled down shortly after Calgoo announced it could sync with Google Calendar. Well, Calgoo has announced that they are hitting the big time with Version 1.0 this week. DownloadSquad has covered Calgoo since its inception, and followed its progress ...

If you are a developer or designer looking for a list of great tools, check out the Protolize database. Tony has archived a listing of the most current and useful web tools. With categories ranging from CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, Flash, CMS, and Inspiration, you will surely get cooking with some top grade code. Each link is rated, and most contain a little description of what it works for ...

The field of Content Management Systems (CMS) mirrors what my grandfather always said, "Cream rises to the top." Scores of open source products jockey for position among the field and only a very few rise to the occasion. Joomla (formerly Mambo), Typo, and Drupal stand out among the field and, of those, Drupal mostly wins the overwhelming support of the FOSS community. Drupal can be seen in action ...

There's no shortage of CMS or "portal" building tools out there. Drupal is one I've come to trust and its feature set is hard to beat. But many require a certain amount of heavy lifting or at least tweaking to get running. Enter Geeklog-- a so-called "portal in a box," or to hear them say it, "The Ultimate Weblog System." I don't know about ultimate, but I will say the installation and ...

Seymore is a Ruby on Rails CMS (that's Content Management System) by Thomas Mango that's still in the earliest stages but nevertheless looks pretty impressive. Seymore relies on the principle of allowing input wherever there's output, i.e. if I'm logged in and looking at a page of the site, I can edit that page right there, without entering an administration back-end or similar. The best way to ...

Just when you think there are plenty of CMS choices available, we track another one down via eHub: Skeletonz, a simple CMS based on Python and AJAX with a few tricks up its sleeve. Since it's in a 1.0 beta for now, the only way to get it is through SVN, and you'll need Python 2.4, MySQL and MySQLdb. Once you're up and running you'll be greeted with standard features like a template system, plugins ...

If you ever have need for an online learning center of any kind, Moodle is most likely one of the best options you have. It is a full-blown pedagogical learning managment system that has everything you could want and more. It is "easy" to configure if you know what you're doing. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as a backend, but can be used with other database systems if needed. Many ...

There are a lot of CMS's out there, and we've mentioned a couple. NetOffice is another CMS, and OpenSourceCMS rates it at a 4.32, which is pretty good. It's got some great features for working in groups, like Gantt charts (we all love those, don't we?), full support for the iCal format (so Sunbird can import), and the usual panoply of checkpoint and people tracking stuff... The only problem is, ...

The core developers of Mambo, a popular open source CMS, are parting ways with Miro, the company that owns its name. The split is the result of recent Miro's decision to start a "Mambo Foundation," without the input of Mambo's developers. The developers have taken their base of operations, as well as most of the Mambo community, to OpenSourceMatters, where development of the CMS formerly ...