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The popular website builder, LightCMS, has released a number of new features, including a new responsive checkout, an improved form builder and some new templates to boot.
Chosen as one of our recommended website builders over at <a href="http://websitebuilderscritic.com/" target="_blank">Website Builders Critic</a>, LightCMS is a powerful platform with a Partner Platform aimed specifically at web designers.
This new set of features could be the last of many LightCMS releases in 2014. The platform has come a long, long way this year thanks to enhancements made to <a href="/lightcms-rolls-out-blogging-enhancements/" target="_blank">blogging</a> and <a href="/lightcms-to-offer-ecommerce-functionality/" target="_blank">eCommerce</a> functions, among other things.
<h2>Responsive Checkouts &amp; New Templates</h2>
The LightCMS checkout system has been revamped with responsive design — just in time for the holiday season.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/checkoutfull700x0.jpg" alt="LightCMS " />
Shoppers will now experience a seamless and fully responsive shopping experience, regardless of the devices they use for making purchases from your online store. The checkout system adapts to tablets, mobiles in a way which maintains LightCMS' elegant style.
Also, there are two new responsive templates on offer are called, “Civet” and “Liberty”. Both look pretty cool.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1.jpg" alt="LightCMs" />
<h2>Even Better Form Building</h2>
As pointed out in my LightCMS review, one of LightCMS' strong points is its form builder. It's impressively powerful, yet extremely easy to use. With it, you can create simple contact forms, or highly detailed questionnaires.
Well, now it's even better because it looks better.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/formbuilder700x0.jpg" alt="LightCMS" />
The newly updated looks the form builder inline with the rest of LightCMS' elements, which also got an upgrade earlier in the year. Functionality wise, nothing has changed, but it's a welcome upgrade nonetheless.
For more information about these new updates, check out the LightCMS blog.
Also, you can explore more of LightCMS via our CMS Directory. Plus, our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLncwHtiOYBh1zXpX2UasMzG1JMa3kPAuq" target="_blank">LightCMS video tutorials</a> will give you an insight into what LightCMS can do.

LightCMS Releases Responsive Checkout & Improved Form Builder

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With the People's Choice portion of our CMS Awards out of the way, it's now time to start announcing the judge's picks for the winners of the 2014 Critics' Choice CMS Awards.
To get things started, we're going to begin by announcing the winner in the Most Promising CMS category.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mostpromisingcms200x0.png" alt="most promising cms" />
Before I do so, however, I thought I'd explain why we have this category in the first place. The most promising CMS is, in my mind, one that is succeeding in a way that is different from other products on the market. This could be capitalizing on a previously untapped niche in the market or perhaps just producing a unique CMS in general that people haven't seen before.
This year, our winner, as selected by the judges is…
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/ghost_logo_on_white200x0.png" alt="ghost logo" />
What makes <a href="https://ghost.org/">Ghost</a> the Most Innovative CMS for 2014? Here are just a few examples:
<ol>
<li>Ghost has managed to launch from out of nowhere with a successful kickstarter campaign and marketing message.</li>
<li>Ghost offers both standard and hosted solutions that are truly unique in the market.</li>
<li>The interface Ghost offers is something new and fresh.</li>
<li>Ghost has been talked about everywhere by almost everyone and is showing strong growth.</li>
<li>Ghost has excited theme developers with it's potential and as such, has a strong theming community (something most CMS other than the big 3 have had a hard time doing).</li>
</ol>
In a nutshell, we feel that if Ghost was a high school student and this was a yearbook, they'd be voted most likely to succeed.
Congratulations to the development team at Ghost for truly pulling off something amazing. Well done.

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Most Promising CMS

<a href="http://dashboard.webydo.com/landingpages/starta.aspx?campaign=CMSCritic&amp;utm_source=cmscritic&amp;utm_medium=affiliates&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritica" target="_blank">Webydo</a>, a popular code-free website builder, has presented its new “Pixel Perfect Responsive Editor” to its users. As the name suggests, it has been built to look great and work well across a wide range of devices and screen sizes.
With a user base of over 110,000, Webydo claim that this new feature release is in response to requests received from their community of designers and website building agencies.
Let's take a closer look at what this new feature is all about.
<a href="http://dashboard.webydo.com/landingpages/starta.aspx?campaign=CMSCritic&amp;utm_source=cmscritic&amp;utm_medium=affiliates&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritica" target="_blank"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/webydo-logo.png" alt="Webydo" /></a>
<h2>Responsive Design Down to the Pixel</h2>
Having a responsive website is critical in today's multi-screen society.
Webydo’s Pixel-Perfect Responsive Editor aims to give designers the ability to see their work across a wide range of devices, giving them complete control over the layout of those web page down to the pixel.
Webydo's Co-Founder and CEO explains further:
<blockquote>“Following our designer community request, we’ve developed a Pixel-Perfect Responsive Editor that allows designers to scale and adopt the design of their clients’ sites without writing code and with full control over every site element’s position down to the pixel. Using our code-free pixel-perfect responsive editor, designers can now make sure their sites will shine on any screens available today or in the future.”</blockquote>
This new editor now sits alongside Webydo's other flagship features, including; SEO management tools, eCommerce capabilities, and the ability to add parallax scrolling features — all without needing to touch any code.
To learn more about Webydo, <a href="http://dashboard.webydo.com/landingpages/starta.aspx?campaign=CMSCritic&amp;utm_source=cmscritic&amp;utm_medium=affiliates&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritica" target="_blank">visit their website</a>.
Also, be sure to check out Webydo via our CMS Directory.

Webydo Unveils "Pixel Perfect Responsive Editor"

Kentico <a href="http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/kentico-8-2-official-release-date" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has announced the release date of Kentico 8.2</a> — January 6th, 2015.
With offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Czech Republic, Kentico is a respected Enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management solution. It offers an impressive feature set including website building, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions, all either on-premise or in the cloud.
<a href="/kentico-8.1-release-date-revealed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kentico 8.1 was recently released</a> in late August, and that version brought about its own set of features, including SharePoint integration, social marketing improvements, and more. Here's what version 8.2 has in store.
<h2>WCM, eCommerce &amp; Marketing Improvements</h2>
The last hotfix for Kentico 8.1 (8.1.17) will be released on December 19th. From thereon, we will release hotfixes for Kentico 8.2 only.
According to <a href="http://www.kentico.com/Product/Roadmap" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kentico's roadmap</a>, here's what users can expect from Kentico 8.2:
Platform:
<ul>
<li>Modules improvements</li>
<li>Precompilation enhancements</li>
<li>Suppport for separated database in the upgrade procedure</li>
</ul>
Web Content Management:
<ul>
<li>Translation improvements</li>
</ul>
eCommerce:
<ul>
<li>Shipping improvements – easier to create a custom shipping module</li>
</ul>
Online Marketing:
<ul>
<li>Import contacts from a file</li>
<li>Email marketing usability enhancements</li>
<li>Online marketing performance improvements</li>
</ul>
Intranet &amp; Collaboration:
<ul>
<li>SharePoint bi-directional synchronization for files (create, update, delete files)</li>
</ul>
On another note, the roadmap also pencils in the release of Kentico 9 for 2015.
To find out more about Kentico, <a href="http://www.kentico.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">visit their website</a>.
Plus, you can explore more of <a href="/products/kentico/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kentico via our CMS Directory</a>.

Kentico 8.2 Release Date Set

<a href="http://virtuemart.net/" target="_blank">VirtueMart</a>, one of the most successful eCommerce solutions for <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla</a>, has just released its newest version, VirtueMart 3.
Compatible with Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3, the open-source eCommerce solution has undergone “thousands of man hours” in order to make it compatible with Joomla 3, clean up the architecture, increase stability and performance.
VirtueMart concede that, “looking superficially at VirtueMart 3 it looks and works almost as VM2”. However, they say that the feeling and handling of the platform is different. Let's take a look at what they mean.
<h2>Smoother Shopping</h2>
This new update brings about enhanced speed, add to cart buttons in the category browse view, and a simpler checkout system. VirtueMart merchants will notice the enhanced backend speed and simplified custom fields, along with many more tools to fulfill the wishes and needs of customers.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/virtuemart3.png" alt="VirtueMart 3" />
Here's an overview of the back end improvements:
<ul>
<li>The most advanced VM available to date</li>
<li>Increased backend performance</li>
<li>Simplified process for adding and implementing product customfields</li>
<li>Enhanced parameters for displaying related products and categories</li>
<li>Additional parameters for the views in the joomla menu configuration</li>
<li>Easily add and configure your own shopperfields directly useable in the shopping cart</li>
<li>Increased ability to Restrict/Manage employee access to key functions using ACL</li>
</ul>
Meanwhile, the front end will provide a smoother shopping experience, thanks to:
<ul>
<li>Improved page load speeds</li>
<li>The ability to add products and their variants to the cart directly from the category browse view</li>
<li>Simpler checkout process helping to reduce cart abandonment</li>
<li>Predicted shipping costs prior to full address entry</li>
<li>Cart contents for logged in users are stored to allow checkout at a later time</li>
<li>For multilingual stores, we now have a language fallback to the default language for non-translated text</li>
</ul>
To find out more about VirtueMart 3, and to download it for yourself, <a href="http://virtuemart.net/news/latest-news/465-virtuemart-3-is-here" target="_blank">check out the official announcement</a>.
For more information about Joomla, visit <a href="/products/joomla/" target="_blank">Joomla via our CMS Directory</a>.

VirtueMart 3 Released

This is just a quick thank you post to all of our Movember sponsors for their generous donations. Combined, we were able to raise over $500 for cancer research!We truly appreciate your donations.In addition to our <a href="/movember-update-cms-critic-does-movember/">previous donors </a>, we also have the following to thank:<ul><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thexyz.com/">Thexyz</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://revaluate.com/">Revaluate</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://crayon.co">Crayon</a></li></ul>Thanks for supporting us. For those interested in getting in a donation before the period ends, please use this link to do so: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.movember.com/ca/donate/payment/member_id/10406853/">https://www.movember.com/ca/donate/payment/member_id/10406853/</a>

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If blogging is your profession, you need to build yourself a personal blog. A blog which you update on topics which are important to you, or perhaps on topics which you wish to write about for clients.However, not only does your blog need to look good, it also needs to work well for you when you’re typing up content, and it needs to work well for your visitors when they eventually read through it.This then begs the following question, “Which content management system (CMS) is best for blogging?”Here are my top five picks.<h2>1. <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress (Self Hosted)</a></h2><a target="_blank" href="http://www.employtheinternet.com/">I personally blog</a> from a WordPress-powered website, and so do many other bloggers. There’s a good reason for that.WordPress is quick to set up (especially when using <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bluehost.com/">BlueHost</a>), allows you to manage content and digital assets easily, and has a pretty simple admin panel to boot. The learning curve is there, but it’s relatively minimal.However, the main benefits of WordPress lie in its flexibility. Because it is the most popular CMS in the world, you will find thousands upon thousands of templates and plugins to make your blog look and feel unique. Many WordPress plugins can also be used to extend WordPress' functionality, allowing you to create online stores, communities, and so forth. There's almost nothing it can't do.In short, WordPress is a powerhouse as well as a bullet-proof blogging tool.<h2>2. <a target="_blank" href="http://ghost.org/">Ghost</a></h2>Launched in in late 2013, Ghost is still the new kid on the block. But it’s growing up fast.Dedicated to being a platform for bloggers specifically, Ghost has been built around the needs of a wordsmith. The admin panel is nothing less than beautiful. It boasts neat dashboard widgets that showcase website stats elegantly, and yet Ghost maintains a deep focus on content creation above anything else. It really is built for blogging.There are already a fair number of sleek (and free) Ghost templates on offer, and new platform features are released regularly. With time, I can see Ghost becoming a serious player in the blogging world – if it isn't so already.You can opt to either self host Ghost, or make use of their cloud-hosted solution, Ghost Pro.<h2>3. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.movabletype.com/purchase.html?dc=MTCMSdeal">MovableType</a></h2>Although founded in 2001, two years before WordPress, I like to think of MoveableType as WordPress’ little cousin. Of course, I mean that in the nicest way possible.MoveableType's interface reminds me of WordPress, and in many ways, it works and feels similar to the big daddy of blogging. It has its own merits too though, including  a wide range of plugins and templates.It also has multi-site publishing capability across multiple domains or subdomains, all manageable within its user friendly interface. This makes it a powerful and scalable tool for those looking to create large blogs and magazine websites.With the likes of HuffingtonPost and Gothamist within its user base, it's easy to recommend MovableType to those looking for a platform to house a large blogging project.<h2>4. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace</a></h2>If you’re looking for a platform that takes out the guesswork, Squarespace is for you.Squarespace is a cloud-hosted website builder with stunning templates which are great for building sleek, professional websites – including blogs. In fact, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmB1CTteAuc">a Squarespace blog can easily be created in just a few minutes</a>.There’s no need to research plugins or look elsewhere for good templates, as Squarespace supplies it all for you. Plus, it has an awesome visual editor which lets you edit your website simply by clicking on different page areas.The downside is that Squarespace isn’t ideal if you’re looking to publish hundreds of blog posts, as blog and media management isn’t very robust.<h2>5. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.typepad.com/">TypePad</a></h2>Like MoveableType, Typepad has been around for a while, and it's a reliable option more than anything else. It's known to be a very secure platform, one that hackers tend to avoid.It is a hosted solution, comes with integrated analytics, easy design customization features and a relatively small but highly dedicated community. Joining Typepad kind of feels like you joined a writers club, especially since all Typepad blogs have the chance to be featured on the Typepad website. It feels very inclusive and homely.The downside here is that for its limited functionality, it comes with some fairly heaving pricing. TypePad isn't exactly much of a looker compared to other platforms either.Honourable mentions, in no particular order, go out to; <a target="_blank" href="https://ellislab.com/expressionengine">ExpressionEngine</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://dropplets.com/">Dropplets</a>,<a target="_blank" href="https://www.silvrback.com/">Silvrback</a>, LightCMS, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wix.com/">Wix</a>.<h2>“But What About MY Favourite CMS?”</h2>Many of you will now be wondering why I didn’t include the likes of Blogger, Tumblr, Joomla and Drupal somewhere on this list. I can already hear the screeches of, “How are they not even honourably mentioned?!”.The fact is, Blogger and Tumblr aren’t considered robust enough to be worthy of competing with WordPress, Ghost and the rest on a professional scale. If you want to blog about how much you love your kittens, they may be viable options. But I’d never recommend them to serious bloggers.As for Joomla and Drupal, The former is clunky and not exactly optimized for blogging, whilst the latter is far better suited to large-scale websites. Neither belong on this list, despite having their own uses and strengths.So, with that being said, I’d recommend sticking to the names listed above. Each one is respected, easy to use, feature rich and optimized for being your blogging playground.

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<a href="/products/squarespace" target="_blank">Squarespace</a> and Brace.io have both announced their plan to merge, with the Brace.io team being absorbed into the Squarespace ranks.
Brace.io is a relatively new static website CMS with DropBox integration acting as an FTP, fast deployment, sleek templates, and some interesting tools and features including forms, charts, and tags.
Squarespace is of course one of the world's most widely used and respected website builders. Much like its competitors, it has a focus on simplicity, yet is still manages to pack a functional punch – maybe now even more so, thanks to the boost of acquiring Brace.io. Let's take a look at how this merge came about.
<h2>Squarespace &amp; Brace</h2>
<img style="max-width:200px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/imagescauzpt5i-1.jpg" alt="Squarespace" /><img style="max-width:200px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/brace1_1x200x0.png" alt="Brace.io" />
We don't know exactly what this move means yet, but here's what we do know so far.
Existing Brace.io users can continue to use our service until Jan 19, 2015, after which, all Brace sites, including redirects will be disabled. If you're a Brace free user, you will receive a coupon worth three months of free service on <a href="http://www.site44.com/">Site44</a>.
Paying customers, will receive a full refund for their last subscription period, the same Site44 coupon, and a full year of <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/pricing" target="_blank">Squarespace Unlimited</a> for free.
Squarespace had to say <a href="http://blog.squarespace.com/blog/welcome-the-braceio-team-to-squarespace" target="_blank">via their blog</a>:
<blockquote>“Over the last few months, we’ve been watching Brace.io, a company that shares our passion for simplicity and delightful developer experiences. Today, we’re happy to announce that Brace.io is joining us here at Squarespace. We’ll be working together to enhance our own developer workflow, and to create other beautifully simple experiences within the Squarespace platform.”</blockquote>
Brace, had this to say via their blog announcement:
<blockquote>“In the end we feel that our vision aligns closely with that of Squarespace. They care about developer experience, as evidenced by the <a href="http://www.squarespace.com/developer">developer platform</a> they launched with Squarespace 6. Together, we hope to create the best experience possible for developers on an online publishing platform.”</blockquote>
So, this move seems to be focused on improving the Squarespace developer platform. But I have a feeling that Squarespace wants to benefit from this move in other ways.
<h2>A Hint of Things to Come?</h2>
As you can see from the quotes above, neither Squarespace or Brace.io has given away too much of the details of the deal.
But Squarespace hasn't made this move in vain, and so it will be interesting to see how the acquisition of Brace.io impacts future updates to existing features, as well as if we see any brand new features which Brace.io previously had on offer.
It would be logical to assume that Squarespace plans on poaching some of Brace.io's existing features, particularly their forms, charts, and tags tools. I go into more detail about what this Squarespace move means over on <a href="https://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/squarespace-brace-team-up-heres-what-it-means/" target="_blank">Website Builders Critic</a>.
To sign up to Squarespace with a 14-day free trial, <a href="https://www.squarespace.com" target="_blank">visit their website</a>, or check <a href="/products/squarespace/" target="_blank">Squarespace out via our CMS Directory</a>.

Brace Joins Squarespace as a Booster in the Website Builder Race

CrownPeak’s newly announced Cloud Content Management Platform will make Digital Asset Management (DAM) functions available as a service.
Since its launch in 2001, <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CrownPeak Technology</a> has provided a software-as-a-service open cloud platform for Enterprise Web Experience Management. CrownPeak is positioned as a <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/Press/CrownPeak/20141023-CrownPeak-Named-a-Visionary-by-Gartner-for-Web-Content-Management.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Visionary” in 2014 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) by Gartner, Inc</a>.
With this new DAM solution, content editors can centrally manage the brand experience from a single place, with changes published to any webpage using the asset. Also, digital marketing teams can deliver a consistent experience through streaming and standardized brand compliance.
Let's take a closer look at what CrownPeak is now offering.
<h2>Streamlining Asset Curation &amp; Editing</h2>
CrownPeak Technology, the provider of the enterprise’s only open cloud platform for Web Experience Management, has released a new Digital Asset Management (DAM) offering, available now to its enterprise customers and digital agency partners. The company’s unique DAM service makes global management of digital media assets across all of an organization’s web properties quick and easy.
Digital marketers choose CrownPeak’s multi-tenant cloud content management platform to create rich, personalized web experiences for customers. As part of any brand’s global website management effort, CrownPeak DAM eliminates many of the extra steps normally required to manage, organize, edit, deploy and regulate digital media files. The service provides the following benefits to enterprise marketing and agency client website teams:
<ul>
<li>Asset Curation. Organize and categorize digital assets at will, then easily police where they are deployed, regardless of the source content’s location.</li>
<li>Standardized Editing. Normalize image editing functions across all global web properties, supporting collaboration and taming inefficient DAM workflows.</li>
<li>Increased Control. Unify brand identity, image quality, asset versioning, and compliance across the enterprise in one comprehensive cloud tool.</li>
</ul>
<h2>A Unified Cloud View of All Digital Assets</h2>
CrownPeak’s DAM solution is able to openly access and manipulate digital media assets stored in a variety of third-party marketing tools such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Sharepoint, Box, and Veeva.
This means that website development and management teams tasked with creating better online customer experiences on a global basis can more easily enforce a unified, consistent brand look and feel – no matter where their digital assets are stored.
CrownPeak's Chief Product Officer, Carl Sutter, made these comments upon the release of CrownPeak DAM:
<blockquote>“The prevalence of un-integrated and niche DAM products in the market left unaddressed a number of key challenges felt by digital marketers. CrownPeak DAM helps eliminate errors in what has traditionally been a very inefficient team workflow for asset management. Most DAM offerings don’t sync directly with the CMS. With our cloud content management platform, the more backend digital asset repositories that integrate via our open API or pre-built connectors, the more optimized a brand’s entire DAM effort can become.”</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Paul Juedes, senior director of enterprise digital marketing at CoreLogic, made these comments:
<blockquote>“Digital marketing teams work feverishly to feed each prospect’s ravenous appetite for digital content. A cloud content management platform with an integrated DAM is now a necessity. Solutions like CrownPeak DAM can streamline and simplify the way organizations manage their digital assets in a central, secure way. Moreover, a good DAM implementation is a strategic competitive advantage. It allows organizations to meet and exceed every customer’s expectations for a great content-driven experience with brand consistency.”</blockquote>
<h2>CrownPeak Digital Asset Management Features<a name="_GoBack"></a></h2>
Designed to empower web content authors and editors, CrownPeak DAM comprises the following features and functions:
Access
CrownPeak DAM tracks and organizes digital assets across the enterprise with native platform integration to best-of-breed data and content sources where digital assets may be stored. It manages the seamless flow of image files, audio, and video – independent of their location. CrownPeak is also compatible with third-party storage, enterprise content management and document management applications.
Organization
CrownPeak DAM allows users to filter and classify digital assets by tagging attributes such as file type and meta-data tags (e.g. “product photos”) or by creating named collections (e.g. “Fall campaign”). Assets can be browsed, searched, moved, and manipulated across the entire website portfolio from a single interface – eliminating asset redundancy. Collections allow web teams to provision special access in support of cross-team collaboration.
Editing
CrownPeak DAM provides a unified, intuitive set of tools for image editing across all websites, efficiently eliminating unnecessary image rework. The Image Optimizer feature creates pre-packaged, optimized images for mobile, tablet or web with a few clicks. Finalized images can then be quickly and consistently published across all global websites. Any saved changes roll out automatically on production sites that use the image as well as to its original location.
Previewing
CrownPeak DAM powers a rich media preview of still image thumbnails and full web pages with adjustable sizing.
Enforcement
CrownPeak DAM empowers brand owners to enforce compliance of digital assets with definitive or optimal quality standards, supported by layered security and rich team workflow built right into the CrownPeak platform. Collect and tag assets by expiration date or copyright, for example. CrownPeak can also integrate its capabilities with third-party digital rights management and governance monitoring tools.
Getting your hands on CrownPeak DAM will be easy, thanks to it being fully integrated with CrownPeak’s cloud content management platform and is available immediately with the click of a button.
CrownPeak DAM is an optional offering that CrownPeak activates for customers and comes packaged as part of the Advanced Platform edition, which exisiting customers will be glad to hear. The company will make pricing information available to interested parties.
To find out more about CrownPeak DAM, <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">visit the CrownPeak website</a>.
Also, be sure to check out <a href="/products/crownpeak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CrownPeak via our CMS Directory</a>.

CrownPeak Unveils Digital Asset Management Solution

This is just a quick update for those waiting on the results from the Critics' Choice CMS Awards.
Myself and the other judges this year, Kaya Ismail and Barb Mosher Zinck have finished coming up with our results and are getting ready to announce the winners.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/awards-logo300x0.png" />
We'll begin doing so on November 19th (two days from today) so please stay tuned to find out who we've selected as this year's winners.
For those of you curious as to who the winners are from this year's People's Choice portion of the awards, you can find them all listed on the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/">Winners Page</a>.

The Critics' Choice CMS Awards Update

Open Source content management systems have been growing in popularity as companies and customers discover the benefits of the open source community. As such, there has been a large number of amazing success stories for companies that have chosen to open source their products.
Today, we're going to announce the winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS award for Best Open Source Java CMS.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/best_open_source_java_cms-1200x0.png" alt="best_open_source_java_cms" />
The contenders this year were Liferay, Magnolia and dotCMS.
The winner this year was Magnolia!
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/magnolia_large200x0.gif" />
Congratulations to the team at Magnolia on their second win this year! Check them out here: <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/">http://www.magnolia-cms.com/</a>

The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Open Source Java CMS

With the amazing number of free content management systems on the market, choosing one can be a challenge but today, we're hoping to help make the selection process easier.
Today, we're going to announce the Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Free CMS.
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This year the contenders were Plone and Mura CMS.
The winner between the two was Mura CMS!
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Congratulations to the Mura CMS team on their win. Check them out here: <a href="http://www.getmura.com/">http://www.getmura.com/</a>

The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Free CMS (Other Languages)

Content management systems are an important part of business today and small to midsize businesses have a wide variety of solutions to choose from.
Today, we're going to announce the winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS (Other Languages).
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This year's contenders were Django CMS, Surreal CMS, and Movable Type.
The winner, in the end, was Django CMS.
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Congratulations to Django CMS on their win. Check them out here: <a href="https://www.django-cms.org/en/">https://www.django-cms.org/en/</a>

The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS Other Langs

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