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The Content Management System and Pros & Cons

What is Content Management System? A Content Management System or CMS is a system which lets a business to build and update its own website through software. To be precise, if a business owner wishes to make his own website, not bothering to depend upon the web developer, he can do it easily with CMS. But also it should be kept in mind that the non technical persons can design it poorly and this way instead of bringing it business, it may be the cause of failure. Therefore the pros and cons of CMS need to be understood clearly and also the remedy of poor handling should be known. This article is for them who want to make and update their own website through CMS.

Visual WebGui 6.4 RC0 Released

The new version is now available for download in free open source Express format or in Professional open source trial version. Since its inception in 2007, Gizmox has been working towards the release of its fully featured Visual WebGui (VWG) version. Up until this release of 6.4 Gizmox has released 6 major versions and with this version Gizmox is delivering on the VWG promise to enable a full cycle of rapid development of enterprise level data-intensive Ajax application. “VWG was designed to solve what might be the most painful issues for enterprise IT; reproducing client/server richness and user experience on Web and Cloud, in a simple cost effective way and with standard Web, no-plug-in accessibility and absolutely secured end point. We took upon ourselves one of the most ambitious missions, one that the big software players could not solve,” says Navot Peled, Gizmox CEO and adds “The goal was to create an end-to-end Web and Cloud solution that simplifies enterprise Ajax development experience to a VB6 level using Ajax methodologies to reproduce client/server richness and user experience on Web while enabling absolutely unhackable Ajax UI and one that also enables creative UI designs without the need to struggle with complex HTML, JavaScript and CSS styling. We wanted to make developers really feel at home, so we decided to expose 2 basic development experiences: one that leverages desktop developers’ skills, providing Form based VB6-like development experience and one that leverages web developers’ skills, with declarative XAML experience. The first one we call VWG application and the second is VWG sites. Visual WebGui 6.4 is the first version to fully deliver on that promise.” VWG has been collecting awards on its innovative approach and achievements, as well as rewarded with developers and enterprises responses and feedbacks

Features to Look For in Ideal Content Management Tool Package

To manage the content you may come across many content management tools which are basically software tools that are used for manipulation and creation of content. You can use these tools for optimizing your website and make it appealing and enjoyable for the users as well. Many big shot IT companies who have specific content management requirement even hire IT staff that can create customized content management tools to accomplish their tasks.

Drupal – The Perfect CMS Solution

If you are looking for a versatile CMS software which can be used for any purpose such as a corporate website, a personal website, aficionado sites, social networking site, a gallery, a portal or a simple web property for any specific internal purpose; keeping the functionality simple to handle and maintain then, Drupal is the software which is just meant for you. Using Drupal is easy.

Germany’s Regional Carrier NetCologne Replaces Webmail with Open-Xchange

COLOGNE, Germany – Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source e-mail and collaboration software, announced today an agreement with NetCologne, one of the largest regional telecommunication and Internet service providers in Germany, to replace its existing webmail solution with Open-Xchange. Plus, NetCologne will offer its users additional Open-Xchange groupware and mobility features as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). NetCologne provides more than 500,000 customers around the Cologne and Bonn areas with phone, Internet, mobile phone and TV services. Now, NetCologne is replacing its existing webmail with the AJAX-based Open-Xchange PIM (Personal Information Management). At no additional charge, NetCologne customers will now have a modern and easy-to-use solution that integrates e-mail, calendar and contact management. The base package can be extended with additional features, such as online storage, groupware and mobility.

XOOPS CMS Releases Version 2.4.5

After over 40,000 downloads of its previous version in just over six short months, the XOOPS Project , one of world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), has released a new version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.4.5. This release is focused mainly on bug fixes and cleaning up conflicts in previous versions of the XOOPS 2.4 series. Some areas, including tinyMCE/ckeditor editors, have been improved. The main features of the 2.4 series are new user friendly Admin GUI new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads central support for jQuery improved Installer Themeable Administration area support for WYSIWYG Editors: CKEditor, wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2 new System License Key Support to PHP 5.3 XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the 2008 and 2009 CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award and the 2009 Grand Prize in OSS Challenge in Korea.

phpVirtualBox, Manage your VirtualBox with Ajax and PHP

Oracle VM VirtualBox – the ultimate virtualization software for enterprise and home – came with a webservice tool called vboxwebsrv, and if you have your virtualBox installed on a host machine you don’t have necessarily on the same machine to manage it. phpVirtualBox is a new project which aims to make VirtualBox management possible simply from a web browser. The web application is powered by PHP and jQuery providing a real clone of the VirtualBox software in your web browser. Much of its verbage and some of its code is based on the (inactive) vboxweb project. phpVirtualBox require A web server with PHP > = 5.2.0 and a working VirtualBox installation > = 3.2.2. Key features include : – Start/Stop VMs : Pause, Save State , Discard State, Power Off, ACPI Sleep, ACPI Shutdown – Snapshots : Take Snapshot, Delete Snapshot, Restore Snapshot – View VM Log files – Configure VMs : Excludes serial port configuration, Excludes some display options that do not affect a headless environment – Media : Add media, Full featured virtual media manager, Create hard disk wizard, Mount read-only media (DVD/CD and Floppy images) while VM is running, Clone disk image, Make disk image Immutable (read-only) – Create virtual machine wizard – Global networking configuration : Add / remove / configure host-only interfaces, Configure DHCP settings for host-only interfaces – Import / Export Virtual Machines – Virtual Machine Console access : Allows specification of username / password and screen resolution, Can be “detached” to open the VM’s console in a minimal, new browser window. VirtualBox OSE is supported but support for console tab, USB, and VRDP will be dropped obviously. Notice that the script performs no front-end user authentication of any kind, it is intended to be run on a local network or intranet where access to the phpVirtualBox script is limited by network connectivity.

What Can CMS Do?

With CMS, there’s a lot you can do than with just ordinary blogging software or site you have custome made by some developers. A WCMS is composed of dynamic collection of materials for the Web; like HTML documents, videos, images, texts, flash animations and other types of media. CMS lets you control documents, audit, edit and timeline management.

Summer Sees Campsite 3.4 Release

Prague, 8 July 2010 – Campsite, the free, open source, multilingual content management system for news websites has been released in version 3.4 and features over fifty bug fixes and improvements. Building upon the stability and security improvements in June’s 3.3.6 release, this latest version includes dramatically improved search options (both internally and for external search engines), a clean up of the graphical interface (new-look icons and admin interface) and easier installation. Campsite is a flagship open-source software package developed by Sourcefabric, one of the largest European open source projects for news and media. “With this release, Campsite can be installed on almost any hosting service,” said Micz Flor, one of Sourcefabric’s founding partners.

ProcessMaker, Web 2.0 Open Source BPM Software Solution

ProcessMaker is a very unique enterprise-grade Open Source business process management (BPM) and workflow software designed for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and organizations. ProcessMaker is a user-friendly application to manage workflow efficiently and effectively. Business users and process experts with no programming experience can design and run workflows, increase transparency, and radically reduce paperwork. Automate processes across systems, including human resources, finance, and operations. Private and public organizations can use it to automate document intensive, approval-based processes across systems including finance, HR and operations. ProcessMaker is written in PHP and Ajax, fully web-based with a service oriented architecture. I loved the workflow creation interface where you can open and customize all your business process with simple drag and drop. In addition ProcessMaker includes tools to design forms, create documents, assign roles and users, create routing rules, interconnect with third-party systems including business intelligence (BI), document management (DMS), content management (CMS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems through a service-orientated architecture (SOA), and to map an individual process quickly and easily.