Archive for the ‘CMS Reviews’ Category
Bitrix Site Manager – Review and Commentary
With over 20,000 customers, the Bitrix Site Manager platform has proven to be a popular content management choice worldwide. Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, this veteran provider has been in the game longer than most, and as such, has had time to finely tune their latest 8.5.1 offering. In late 2001 I tested the Bitrix platform [...]
Introduction to the Elemental Theme Framework for WordPress
Elemental is the new theme framework for WordPress from Mimbo Pro designers, Pro Theme Design.
Today we’re going to take a look at it in detail and highlight what makes it such a good choice. For those who are unaware, it is the very theme framework that is runs this website.
Some of the features that are [...]
Introduction to Eden, the new CMS from Preation
Eden is a unique new CMS from Durham, North Carolina based firm, Preation.
What makes it unique in a sea of content management systems you ask? Let us show you.
First off, anyone can create a free trial account (no credit card required) by accessing the Eden website.
Once you’ve done so, you’ll enter the dashboard which provides [...]
Drupal Theme Review – CMS Grunge
As we’ve said previously, the market for premium Drupal themes is just starting to get to the stage where it may begin to match that of Joomla and WordPress. Drupal has been lacking in the themes department for quite some time and we’re always excited to see new themes and theme clubs starting up. One [...]
Elgg Social Networking CMS – Review and Commentary
Described as the open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments, Elgg, was first created back in 2004 and built to run on the popular php/mysql combination. Elgg is easily installed once a database and its proper credentials have been created.
In my test install, I created a new website at my web [...]
CompactCMS – Review and Commentary
Today we are going to take you through a review of the aptly named, CompactCMS. As Xander Groesbeek explains it, the system he created known as CompactCMS, was the result of the frustration he witnessed his end-users experience with the Joomla content management system.
The goal of CompactCMS is to simplify content management duties, period. Made up [...]
Xaraya CMS 1.1.5 – Review and Commentary
Content management is but one of many roles that the Xaraya web application development framework has taken on since 2002. With beginnings built on the combined history of ThatWare, PHP-Nuke, and PostNuke, Xaraya boasts an extensible API, powerful security and privilege management, dynamic data allowing users to create or extend modules, and block layout, where [...]
Concrete5 CMS Review and Commentary
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 to [...]
Typolight CMS 2.7 Review
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 then unzip [...]
Introduction to Gutensite
Gutensite is a very cool online CMS that is free but can be extended for a small fee. What’s unique in my mind about this product is the beauty of it’s design and the wonderful choices you get with their design library.
It’s extremely easy to use and very reminiscent of Squarespace (a similar product) but [...]
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