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concrete5 today announced that it has redesigned the company’s admin dashboard to leverage Twitter Bootstrap. An early pioneer of in-context editing, concrete5 gained popularity due to its ease of use for managing the content of websites. With this in mind, the company has leveraged the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to offer a completely redesigned, centralized dashboard [...]
A new version of Concrete5 is now available. Here are some of the changes from the release announcement: We completely changed the way installation works so it is much easier to build a starting point. You can even install completely from the command line. We also took the time to rethink Scrapbooks which had evolved [...]
We last reviewed Concrete5 in 2009 when it came onto the scene with a bang. Designers everywhere reacted to this new CMS with mixed feelings. Most of the people who tried it, were blown away and loved it. There were a lot of WordPress and Joomla fans who were unimpressed with the way the system [...]
We’re giving away one free copy of Concrete5‘s eCommerce module and one copy of the discussions module (total value: $155) to one lucky reader. All you have to do is follow CMS Critic on Facebook and send us a message with your name. We will draw the winner randomly this Friday. Good luck to all [...]
Two years after going open source, concrete5 now powers over 50,000 websites, only a small handful of which are actually hosted by the project’s core team. Now concrete5 site owners can easily get support on a per instance basis regardless of where their site is being hosted. “The free forums and consulting services of many [...]
concrete CMS was commercial software that went open source in late 2008, quickly winning project of the month on SourceForge and much attention from a community of open source fans used to dealing with painful user experiences and scattered code. During the last year the core team behind concrete5 has been flushing out features in [...]
With the amount of attention that Concrete5 has been getting of late, we decided to take it for a test run and see what this open source CMS is all about. One look at the interface of the Concrete 5 content management system and you’ll understand why it’s so popular. Once logged in, administrative access [...]
After many a poking and prodding and finally having to show him some whisky to get him off his pirate ship, we finally managed to snag some time with Franz Maruna of Concrete5. Be prepared for an entertaining read. CC: Thank you for taking the time to speak with us today, we know it’s hard [...]
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