OpenCms 8 is becoming stable. Maintenance release version 8.0.1 online.

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The new OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The “Advanced Direct Edit” mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop. OpenCms 8.0.1 is a maintenance [...]

Open Source CMS Kajona V3.4.0 “berlin” is ready

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The development of the new Kajona version 3.4.0 took nearly ten months, but it was worth waiting. The Kajona team used the time to refactor many aspects of the system, providing both, visible changes at the user-interface and invisible changes under the hood. Like the release name “berlin” hints at, most of the feedback from [...]

Jahia Launches Jahia 6.5 the Next-Generation Enterprise CMS

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Jahia, provider of next generation Open Source CMS solutions, today announced the commercial release of Jahia 6.5, the first open source, zero-coding, next-generation CMS, featuring a broad range of Enterprise capabilities. The new release bridges web, portal, social, search, mobile user experience, and content management, with a single composite platform. Jahia 6.5 offers the best [...]

Elgg Review – The Social Networking CMS

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Elgg is a free, open source CMS that has been around for a number of years. Over the years, the community has grown exponentially and now boasts a rather active set of users. With a plugin repository of over 1000 available plugins for the system, it has quickly become the go to CMS for open [...]

Joomla showing heavy growth in 2011

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Over the last week Joomla (see our joomla review), the enormously popular open source CMS, was downloaded for the 22 millionth time. 22 million. That’s an incredible number to achieve, but that’s not the only impressive number they’ve been able to boast about. Here are some others: The number of extensions (essentially applications for Joomla) [...]

Introducing PeecFW, an Open Source CMS

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What is PeecFW? PeecFW is an Open Source CMS (Content Management System), CMF (Content Management Framework) and PHP Framework that is using PHP 5.3 + as the platform technology. PeecFW has been developed since august 2010 and has been heavily developed for a short period of time. Check out this Youtube video to learn more [...]

Joomla! 1.6 Available Now – Download the World’s Leading Open Source Content Management System and Easily Build Websites and Online Applications

Joomla (http://www.joomla.org), the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system), today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6. Users will be able to download the latest version effective this evening from the Joomla website. Designed to offer enhanced site control and a more polished user experience, Joomla 1.6 delivers a variety of new tools [...]

Drupal 7 released and ready for public consumption

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One of the most popular content management systems of all time has a new major release available. The final version of Drupal CMS version 7.0 has been made available. For those who are unaware, Drupal is a massively popular content management framework / system that was created by Dries Buytaert and has taken the open [...]

CMS Critic Recommends… August Edition

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This month’s edition of CMS Critic recommends… brings you our suggestions for most versatile content management systems. This can mean a lot of things so let’s first clarify how we have made our selections. First, the CMS must be able to be expanded upon, must be flexible and be used for multiple purposes. Without further [...]

Concrete5 CMS Review and Commentary

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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 [...]

Typolight CMS 2.7 Review

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Typolight is an open source cms that has been slowly gaining in popularity in recent years. Today, we are going to give you an overview of the product with some commentary on how we feel about the product. The first step to setting up Typolight is to download and install the software package. You can [...]