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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

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LightCMS have released a Partner Platform designed to empower web designers and resellers.
The popular website builder gives users everything they need to quickly build and manage a website, blog, or online store.
This Partner Platform unveiling comes after a string of LightCMS updates. In a little over a month, LightCMSm have introduced <a href="/lightcms-announce-new-social-features-interface-changes/" target="_blank">interface changes</a>,  <a href="/lightcms-improve-website-security-through-ftps/" target="_blank"> security improvements</a>, and most recently, <a href="/lightcms-rolls-out-blogging-enhancements/" target="_blank"> blogging enhancements</a>.
Here's a very nicely done introductory video for the LightCMS Partner Platform:
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<h2>Full CMS Capabilities &amp; A Hefty Discount</h2>
LightCMS' Partner Platform can serve as a foundation for your business.
Using the platform gives you unlimited pages for each website, unlimited storage, every LightCMS feature (from eCommerce to blogging), FTP access, automatic updates and even hosting.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/lightcms.png" alt="LightCMS " />
What's more is, the price of this unlimited package has been discounted by over 80%, at just $19 per month per website. Perhaps more importantly though, LightCMS enables you to manually set a markup on that $19, giving you all the room you need to make a profit.
Here's a quick overview of how LightCMS can benefit your business:
<ul>
<li>Multi-Website Management</li>
<li>No-Cost Sites While In Development</li>
<li>Automated Client Sign-Up &amp; Billing</li>
<li>White Label / Private Label</li>
<li>Site Copy Functionality</li>
<li>A Free Website for Your Business</li>
<li>Dedicated Account Manager</li>
<li>Gold Level Support</li>
</ul>
Check out the LightCMS Partner Platform page for more information.
Additionally, don't forget to explore more of LightCMS via our CMS Directory.

LightCMS Launches New Partner Platform

mike-johnston

<a href="http://www.telerik.com/" target="_blank">Telerik</a> – the company behind <a href="https://www.progress.com/sitefinity-cms" target="_blank"> Sitefinity</a> – have released major mobile advancements to its award-winning <a href="http://www.telerik.com/devcraft" target="_blank">DevCraft</a> suite of UI controls.
Notably, approximately 130,000 customers from 40,000 organizations across 94 countries make use of Telerik products, including 450 of the Fortune 500. DevCraft is of course one such product.
With this update, Telerik is aiming to optimize mobile development for <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET</a> projects by providing responsive, adaptive and elastic capabilities; mitigating the challenges of developing for multiple devices and screen sizes.
The release also includes document processing and cloud capabilities for UI, as well as additional updates designed to meet the ever-evolving needs of today’s .NET developers. Let's take a closer look at what's new.
<h2>Responsive, Adaptive and Elastic</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/devcraft700x0.png" alt="DevCraft" />
Here's an overview of what you can expect to see in the all new DevCraft Q2’14:
<ul>
<li> Responsive, Adaptive and Elastic:  With the latest Telerik DevCraft release, UI for  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  AJAX controls will gain responsive capabilities in Rotator and Slider, adaptive capabilities in Lightbox and Slider and elastic capabilities in several controls to help developers build applications with a professional UX, tailored for any device.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Document Processing:  Now standard in Telerik UI Controls for  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  AJAX, WPF, Silverlight and WinForms, new APIs for processing the most common document formats: DOCX, RTF, XLSX, CSV and PDF, enabling developers to embed, load, create, convert and print documents directly within the app, without Microsoft Office or other external libraries.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> New Controls: In addition to the more than 420 controls currently available within the DevCraft suite, Telerik is adding new Map, Gantt and Diagram controls for  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  AJAX, making it highly customizable for individual projects.</li>
</ul>
In addition to the advancements listed above, Telerik is releasing additional improvements in Silverlight, WPF, Cloud, the Just product line, WinForms, Reporting and Data Access, all based on user feedback collected throughout the year.
In relation to the release of Telerik's Q2'14 DevCraft, Todd Anglin, EVP at Telerik, made these comments:
<blockquote>“Our development community is asked to do more with less, every day. Our focus at Telerik is to make development a more productive experience in which quality apps can be created and deployed across multiple screens, with minimal rework. With the latest DevTools release, our one million-strong developer community is further empowered to focus on the core of their applications, with the knowledge that Telerik has their back with industry leading UI.”</blockquote>
All of the details of the DevCraft Q2’14 release will be expanded upon during Telerik’s online conference series, “ <a href="http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/devcraft/q2-2014-release" target="_blank"> Be Responsive: .NET UI for Any Device </a> ,” June 24 beginning 11:00am EST.
The three-part series will introduce a wide range of capabilities now available in Telerik DevCraft to help build .NET apps using any technology—established or evolving. The full lineup includes:
<ul>
<li>Tips for Building Mobile-Optimized  <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank"> ASP.NET </a>  Projects.</li>
<li>Manage Documents within .NET Apps.</li>
<li>Build Line-of-Business Apps with Maps, Gantt and Diagram Controls.</li>
</ul>
For more details, and to register for Telerik's upcoming online conference series <a href="http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/devcraft/q2-2014-release" target="_blank">right here</a>.
You can also find out more about DevCraft via the <a href="http://www.telerik.com/devcraft" target="_blank"> Telerik website</a>.

New Telerik DevCraft Release Brings About Enhanced Responsive Design Capabilities

<a href="http://www.coremedia.com/" target="_blank">CoreMedia</a> have announced the release of CoreMedia LiveContext 2.0, an IBM WebSphere® Commerce integrated digital engagement application. The application empowers eCommerce and marketing professionals to transform their online stores with deeper, more visually appealing and immersive experiences. 
 Founded in 1996, CoreMedia – a leading WCM (Web Content Management) vendor – is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with offices in San Francisco, Washington, London and Singapore. Globally recognized brands are amongst CoreMedia' clients, including the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Deutsche Telekom and so forth.
Using CoreMedia LiveContext 2.0, clients have maximum control and flexibility in meeting the needs of their online shoppers. Let's take a look at exactly how that works.
<h2>Visual Engagement &amp; Immersive Content</h2>
CoreMedia LiveContext 2.0 allows businesses to leverage experiential commerce to connect customers with an engaging experience through the seamless blending of brand, content and community resulting in increased visitor traffic, brand awareness, sales and customer loyalty.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1.png" alt="CoreMedia" />
The three foundational components CoreMedia LiveContext 2.0 are as follows:
<ul>
<li> Visual Engagement: Great design elements, exciting layouts and a mobile-first responsive and adaptive approach enable e-Commerce and marketing professionals to design experiences that attract and engage shoppers.</li>
<li> Immersive Content: Through product aligned storytelling e-Commerce professionals can deliver inspirational, content-driven stories that are seamlessly embedded with product information.</li>
<li> Incremental Innovation: A grow-as-you-go approach ensures that operations won’t be disrupted while evolving to experiential commerce. A fixed price rapid deployment offering, aligned with tangible business value and delivered within as little as 10 weeks, is provided.</li>
</ul>
Regarding the release of CoreMedia LiveContext 2.0, Jerry Lewis, VP of WebSphere Commerce Practice at SysIQ,had this to say:
<blockquote>
“The seamless integration between CoreMedia and WebSphere Commerce Management Center, minimizes the number of tools that business users need to build a visually compelling and effective e-commerce application. 
Many other commerce and content solutions are cobbled together making them complex and difficult to manage. With CoreMedia, merchandisers, marketers, and merchants can effectively combine content with commerce in a long-awaited, much needed tool set.”
</blockquote>
For further details on the release of CoreMedia LiveContent 2.0, check out the <a href="http://www.coremedia.com/web-content-management/news-events/press-releases/coremedia-live-context-2-0-launch-may-2014-en/-/1602/34776/-/_rkd57cz/-/Tweet%20This:%20CoreMedia%20LiveContext%202.0%20Helps%20Businesses%20Transform%20their%20Online%20Stores%20with%20Experiential%20Commerce:%20www.coremedia.com/livecontext" target="_blank"> official announcement </a> .
You can also find out more about CoreMedia <a href="http://www.coremedia.com/" target="_blank"> via their website </a> .

CoreMedia LiveContext 2.0 Released

<a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">Jahia</a>, have given their eagerly anticipated enterprise portal solution – Portal Factory – a release date. June 30th 2014 to be precise. Jahia Portal Factory is built to bring enhanced integration capabilities with external content and business applications.
The initial announcement of Jahia Portal Factory was made back back in February 2014, when we had the <a href="/jahia-one-day-two-jahia-7-release-date-demos-surprises/" target="_blank">pleasure of attending JahiaOne Conference</a>.
Jahia recently launched the latest edition of their open source, enterprise content management system, Now, with the release of Portal Factory, enterprise customers of Jahia can expect a whole new branch of functionality.
<h2>Portals, Portals, Portals</h2>
Jahia Portal Factory brings together the capabilities of <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/digital-factory" target="_blank">Digital Factory CMS</a> along with additional portal capabilities into one single solution. Here's a quick overview of what it can offer:
<ul>
<li>Users themselves can create ad-hoc portals and personal dashboards based on predefined and approved portal templates and components managed from a central administration interface.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>​Companies can seamlessly expose their existing/legacy business applications within modern multi-channel web portal interfaces, thus securing former investments and reducing the time-to-market.</li>
<li>Companies can also expose their data silos (using custom or standardized data providers such as CMIS) and enrich them with additional content into secured digital portals, without duplicating or re-writing data sources.</li>
<li>Marketing teams can produce and publish content as fast and as regularly as their market requires, embedding data and enterprise applications into compelling and differentiating user experiences for their customers without being constrained by IT applications lifecycle.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-portal-factory-dashboard-browsing-data-from-cmis-mounted-repo700x0.png" alt="Jahia Portal Factory" />
<h2>Key features of Jahia Portal Factory</h2>
Inheriting its extensibility and content management capabilities from <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/digital-factory" target="_blank">Digital Factory</a>, Jahia Portal Factory has everything it needs to tackle even the most demanding digital projects.
Here's a look at all the key features of Portal Factory:
<ul>
<li>A new non-intrusive integration for enterprise legacy applications: Portal Factory allows for the integration of legacy applications without having to modify them in any way. Regardless of the language the application had been developed with.Marketing teams can produce the content their market requires at the time it needs it, while IT teams can decide and plan to work on the application at their own pace, according to their resources, security and stability constraints.
This server side integration has been built with the new open source framework <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70112415&amp;msgid=349585&amp;act=LMSD&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fesigate.org%2F" target="_blank">Esigate</a>, initiated by Smile and Capgemini, two leading system integrators, and to which Jahia is now a committer.</li>
<li>The External Data Provider: A new core service developed by Jahia which enables developers to declare bridges between internal content and external repositories without neither copy nor duplication or synchronization.With the External Data Provider, external data can be accessed, manipulated and searched as if they were directly stored in Jahia repository. All external and internal data can benefit, among other core Jahia features, from the powerful layout building features of the Jahia Studio.</li>
<li>User centric personalized dashboards with SSO:  Portal Factory comes with sample widgets, preconfigured portals and configuration tools to help administrators create dashboards easily and pick default widgets and configurations that users will then be able to customize at will.</li>
<li>CMIS: New aggregation capabilities to mount CMIS compliant repositories such as Alfresco, Sharepoint etc. into Digital Factory as well as Portal Factory modules.</li>
<li>A Set of Enterprise Portal Features: These include Identity Management, Personalized content and Multi-Portal capabilities, which have been key capabilities of the Jahia platform since its early days.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-portal-factory-external-app-integration-with-esigate700x0.png" alt="Jahia Portal Factory" />
Regarding the impending launch of Jahia Portal Factory, Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia, had this to say:
<blockquote>“As announced during our first international user conference, JahiaOne, in early February this year, Portal Factory will be available late June thanks to the work done with our community of Customer and Partner. 
In its former version, our CMS solution – Digital Factory –  offered portal features that needed refinement to meet the scope of a complete Portal offering. The conception and development of both the External Data Provider and the Esigate integration, associated with the extension of the personal dashboards exceed everyone’s expectations.”</blockquote>
To find out more about Jahia, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">check out their website</a>. You can also request a trial of Jahia Portal Factory <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/portal-factory/try-portal-factory" target="_blank">right here</a>.
In addition, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/jahia/" target="_blank">Jahia via our CMS Directory</a>.

Jahia Reveal Portal Factory Release Date

The XOOPS development team has announced the release of version 2.5.7.
XOOPS is an acronym of, “eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System”. It's a free open source content management systems (CMS), written in PHP.
It uses a modular architecture allowing users to customize, update and theme their websites. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) making it free to use, modify and redistribute.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/xoops257finaldownload.png" alt="XOOPS" />
Version 2.5.7 is focused on making XOOPS fully compatible with PHP 5.5.x. Furthermore, it brings about some security enhancements, bug fixes, and updates external libraries to their latest versions, including the following:
– jQuery to 1.11.0 
– jQuery UI 1.10.4 
– jQuery Lightbox to 1.2.3 
– jQuery Form to 3.50.0 
– jQuery Tablesorter to 2.5.11 
– jGrowl to 1.2.14 
– TinyMCE to 3.5.11
There's also a brand new theme to go along with the release. The <a href="http://xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6571" target="_blank">xBootstrap Theme</a> has been released, which is – as the name implies – based on Bootstrap.
You can also explore more of <a href="/products/xoops/" target="_blank">XOOPS via our CMS Directory</a>.

XOOPS 2.5.7 Final Goes Live

<a href="https://www.phpfox.com/" target="_blank"> PHPFox</a>, the widely popular social networking CMS, has rebranded. From here on out, <a href="http://moxi9.com/announcement/welcome-to-moxi9" target="_blank"> PHPFox goes by the name of Moxi9</a>.
Moxi9 has been around for a number of years as PHPFox, giving users the ability to create unique online communities which can include many of the features found on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Although I personally like the sound of Moxi9, users and potential users of the platform will be interested to hear that this rebranding brings about more than just a name change.
<h2>PHPFox 4, Pricing &amp; Support</h2>
The PHPFox/Moxi9 team have announced that they are currently working on v4, which is based on a stripped down version of the v3 engine. They say that:
<blockquote>“We have removed many of the default modules that are included with v3 and our new pricing takes this into account, which we will get into below. Our goal with v4 is to develop a strong and stable core, with a brand new way to deliver Apps, Themes and Language Packs to you by using Unity [a feature which will allow you to install Apps, Themes and/or Language Packages with no need to upload files or have developers access your server].”</blockquote>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/phpfox700x0.png" alt="PHPfox" />
Furthermore, the Moxi9 team have unveiled some pricing and support changes, which alters the way users pay for support.
Firstly, the PHPFox product itself has been reduced in price from $299,to $99. A sizeable reduction. However, support options must now be purchased separately via the following two plans:
<ol>
<li> Starter Support Plan – This comes with a 48 hour response time during a 5 day working week, with 30 responses per month at $19 per month.</li>
<li> Pro Support Plan – This comes with a 12 hour response time during a 5 day working week, with 60 responses per month at $49 per month.</li>
</ol>
Also, a Q/A section is currently in private beta, a place where members of Unity or those with active support plans can get assistance from other members and company agents.
For all the details on these announcements, along with comments on the future of PHPFox, check out Moxi9's recent blog announcement.
You can also explore more of <a href="/products/phpfox/" target="_blank"> PHPFox via our CMS Directory</a>.

PHPFox Rebrands to Moxi9, Reveals Pricing Changes

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<a href="http://impresspages.org/" target="_blank">ImpressPages</a> have just announced the release of version 4.1of their platform, coming with a much anticipated <a href="http://market.impresspages.org/" target="_blank">Plugin Market</a>.
Founded in 2007, ImpressPages has grown into a popular open-source “drag-and-drop” and “in-line” editing-based CMS, powering just under 50,000 websites worldwide.
After the <a href="/impresspages-4.0-released/" target="_blank">major release of ImpressPages 4.0 back in April</a>, this update contains an important tweak in the software, enabling plugin installation from within the CMS. With ImpressPages 4.1, the whole plugin installation process have been moved from GitHub to inside the ImpressPages CMS itself.
This means that users can install plugins without leaving the CMS, making plugin installation a smooth and speedy process.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/unnamed700x0.jpg" alt="ImpressPages CMS 4.1" /> 
The complete list of active ImpressPages plugins can be found at the <a href="http://market.impresspages.org/plugins/" target="_blank">Plugin Market directory</a>.
ImpressPages also encourages developers to contribute and sell plugins within the <a href="http://market.impresspages.org/dev/" target="_blank">developers section of the ImpressPages market.</a>
In addition, be sure to also explore more of ImpressPages via our CMS Directory.

ImpressPages 4.1 Released Alongside Plugin Market

I've just finished publishing the announcement over on our awards site that breaks down the new categories this year for the CMS awards.
As you know, there are two portions of the awards; Peoples Choice and Critics Choice. These categories apply to both Peoples Choice and Critics Choice. Submissions for both will be considered but in the end, the judges will decide which projects are best suited to receive each type of award.
I think you'll be excited to see the new breakdown of categories. Go check it out here: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/">https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/</a>

Announcing this year's categories for the CMS Awards

What does open source software mean to you?
For some, the term open source simply means the difference between publicly accessible, shareable and customizable software, and legally protected property. To many, it's a technical term more than anything else.
But open source software means so much more. It has the power to transform institutions, change public perception and even save lives.
Don’t believe me? Then you haven’t heard the story behind <a href="http://www.politie.nl/" target="_blank"> Netherlands’ national police force</a>.
<h2>Disbanded Beginnings</h2>
In 2012, the Dutch police force – which consists of over 63,000 workers – came to the realization that their disunity was directly impacting their role in Dutch society.
Instead of one, central police presence, 26 separate branches of the police were responsible for their own sections of the country. Digitally, this segmentation was even worse, as citizens had to go through one of 300 localized police websites in order to find the help they needed in particular locations. Talk about confusing.
Reporting crime and contacting authorities was a constant struggle, whilst keeping tabs on the police force as a whole was almost impossible.
So, despite their motto of, “Openness, Transparency and Citizen Involvement.”, the Dutch police force's, lack of unity only served to alienate the people it was trying to serve.
That is, until they were introduced to some stellar open source software. <a href="http://www.onehippo.org/" target="_blank"> Hippo CMS</a> to be precise.
<h2>Digitally United</h2>
Using Hippo CMS, the Dutch national police force were able to consolidate their 300 local websites, into one single <a href="http://www.politie.nl/" target="_blank">Dutch Police website</a>. In addition, it enabled them to offer a unified experience across web, mobile and social channels. 
 Their new mobile site utilizes the GPS functionality of mobile phones to serve locally relevant content to the mobile citizen, giving them local news and showing them their nearest police station.
Officers have also been able to bond with their local communities organically through social media, as citizens are now even able to tweet local officers asking for help, or simply to report something suspicious.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/hippopolice700x0.png" alt="Hippo CMS" /> Using the desktop or mobile site, citizens can identify their local officers, their phone numbers, and their working hours. There is even a feature which allows them to quickly send specific officers a message through the website.  
 Further features like crime maps have been implemented, showing citizens the latest crime reports by location. 
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/hippopolice2700x0.png" alt="Hippo CMS" />
What's more is, the Dutch police introduced a revolutionary mobile app for their press officers who work on the ground, usually around high-profile incidents. Equipped with a secure device, they can each create news via a micro-version of Hippo CMS.
They can create news items and photos directly on the street before publishing them to the police website and sharing them automatically through RSS Feeds. In fact, this new method of news publishing was so useful, the police force have since got rid of email and printed press releases altogether. So, their news is now faster and greener.  
 As Ruud Paulusse from the Dutch police is quoted to have said, it's thanks to Hippo's open source contribution that citizens across the Netherlands can; access local information, quickly find crime reports, and even contact on-duty police officers in their vicinity:
<blockquote>
“With Hippo, we rolled out the mobile site together with the desktop site. That’s the advantage of having a central Content Management System that serve content to all channels.”
</blockquote>
<h2>The Power of Open Source</h2>
Without a shadow of a doubt, Hippo CMS – under the banner of open source software – has carried out a tremendous service to the Dutch people. Never before have the public of Netherlands been so well aquainted with their police force.
 The transformation of the Dutch police force has also led to them being ranked <a href="http://www.mt.nl/494/mt500-van-2013" target="_blank">#70 in the MT500</a> – which compiles the 500 most admired institutions in the Netherlands. Tellingly, in previous years, the Dutch police had not been ranked at all.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/hippo1-1700x0.png" alt="Hippo CMS" /> Ron de Milde, Program Director of Media Policy and Digital Media for the Police, had this to say about the Dutch police's new, friendlier stance:
<blockquote>
“I am convinced that our innovations in how we inform citizens via www.politie.nl and internally via our new country-wide intranet, also thanks to using Hippo CMS, have contributed to our entering the list of the 500 “most admired” companies” 
</blockquote>
Hippo's open source platform helped the Netherlands' police to evolve. Their services were once scattered and and ineffective, yet they are now concentrated and inclusive. 
Since taking their open source plunge, the Dutch police haven't just served their people, they have integrated with them, creating a crime-fighting community. And that's a real victory – not just for any police force, but also for any open source software user. 
 After all, community is what makes open source software so great.   
 To find out more about open source software as a whole, visit the <a href="http://opensource.org/" target="_blank">Open Source Initiative</a>, where you can discover open source standards, licenses, implementations and much more.  
 And of course, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.onehippo.com/" target="_blank"> Hippo CMS</a> to explore just how they managed to transform an entire nation's police force. You can also access Hippo's blog post and case study on their police force project <a href="http://www.onehippo.com/en/resources/blogs/2014/04/can-the-police-use-software-to-deliver-better-customer-experience.html" target="_blank"> right here</a>.

How Open Source Software Transformed a Nation's Police Force

Founded in 2008, <a href="http://www.dudamobile.com/" target="_blank"> Duda</a> is a platform which enables you to build optimized multi-screen websites. 
 Initially, <a href="/duda-website-builder">Duda</a> was a white label product, but in 2011 the company made its services publicly available on its website, swiftly moving to launch DudaMobile – a user-friendly and mobile-friendly website builder. <a href="/duda-website-builder">Duda</a> has partnered with some of the world's leading companies, including Google, Yahoo and AT&amp;T. 
 I recently had the pleasure of asking Duda's Co-founder and CEO Itai Sadan a few questions about the history of Duda, what the platform is capable of, and where he sees the website building industry heading. 
<h2>Itai Sadan</h2>
Itai Sadan founded Duda to help small businesses connect with potential customers anywhere, anytime and anyplace. Itai started the company from his garage in Mountain View, CA, with his high school friend, Amir Glatt, who is now CTO. In 2008 they both noticed how the Internet was shifting towards mobile and the need for small businesses to create mobile optimized sites to attract customers on the go.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/itai-headshot200x0.jpg" alt="Itai Sadan" />
Itai's mobile web expertise has been cited by USA Today, Website Magazine, The Huffington Post, Mobile Entertainment and more. 
He speaks regularly on the local, mobile and social space, at industry events hosted by such organizations as BIA Kelsey, Constant Contact, Local Search Association and the Israeli Conference. 
Prior to founding Duda, Itai was a director at SAP where he managed the SAP Discovery System program and was in charge of relationships with IBM, HP and Fujitsu. At age 21, he also founded InterSight, a start-up for data storage. Itai has a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Ben Gurion in Israel.
<h2>The Interview</h2>
<h3>Can you tell us about yourself, your background, and how you came to be a part of Duda?</h3>
My name is Itai Sadan, I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Duda. Duda helps small business get online. We have over 5 million customers that have built mobile sites and full responsive websites on our platform. 
I was originally born in Israel, moved to the US nine years ago, live in Mountain View CA and have a wife and two kids. I have had the entrepreneurial disease since I can remember myself. I started my first company at the age of 21 selling software to small businesses. 
Today, eighteen years later, I'm still building and selling software to small businesses. I love the space, I love being able to connect directly with the customer, being able to see how what you do helps them grow their business and better connect with customers. Prior to Duda, I worked for SAP for six years. I left SAP to start Duda together with my long time high school friend Amir who is the other co-founder and CTO.
<h3> When did Duda come about, and what was the original objective of the Duda team? </h3>
I started Duda in late 2008. With the proliferation of mobile devices and the growing amount of web traffic originating from mobile phones, I wanted to find a way to help small businesses take advantage of this growing opportunity. To help them better connect and engage with their mobile customers by optimizing their websites to be more mobile-friendly. 
I was still working at SAP at the time and Duda was a side project I worked on during nights and weekends for quite a while. Then in the beginning of 2010 as a deal with AT&amp;T started becoming more imminent, I left SAP and started focusing on Duda full time.
<h3> Duda is a leader within the website builder industry, particularly when it comes to mobile websites. At this moment in time, where do you see the industry heading? </h3>
I see everything moving towards multi-screen. We can no longer look at mobile as only phones. There's tablets, the GPS's in our cars are getting connected to the Internet like in the Tesla, there's wearables like Google Glass that have a browser built-in. When developing websites, we need to consider all these different screen sizes. 
It is becoming a daunting task to build a website for each of these devices, hence Duda has created a truly unique site builder which we just launched earlier this year called DudaOne. DudaOne was built from the ground up to enable small businesses and web professional to simply create a responsive site that works on all screens, currently focused on desktop, tablet and mobile.
<h3> What would you say Duda's greatest achievement is? </h3>
Our biggest milestone is recently crossing the mark of five million sites hosted on our platform. Yet, we don't really focus much on that metric, our focus is on making the product simple to use for the average user and powerful enough for the more advanced user. 
We think that if we can get that formula right, all the other metrics will take care of themselves including getting to the the next five million customers.
<h3> What is the biggest advantage to using Duda over its rival products? Which features stand out the most? </h3>
Duda has a few extremely unique capabilities that no other website builder has:
1. Auto Creation – Duda has developed unique algorithms that scour the web for relevant content a business
already has on the Internet, be it on an existing website, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Google Places, etc. We are able to collect all this content (images, text, videos, etc.), make sense of it, and automatically place it into our beautiful templates – and just with a click of a button.
This means our users not only get an amazing head start, as we do all the heavy lifting for them, but also save a lot of time, effort and money. Our competitors require their users to start from scratch. All their users begin from the exact same starting point, a blank template. They expect a plumber or a dentist to put on the hat of a marketing guy and build a site with great content that converts well. We on the other hand, do it all for them.
2. Multi Screen – Duda was built from the ground up as a multi-screen platform. All sites built on Duda are
optimized for desktop, tablet and mobile. We go beyond responsive design by allowing users to modify the content per each device. This means you can hide content, add content, change navigation and more per device. As a long time mobile player, we understand that visitors coming to your site from different devices have different needs.
Our competitors think desktop first and all the other devices are treated as an afterthought. They do not allow you to customize the content per device.
3. Duda Sites Work for You – The content on Duda sites, from our effective template designs to business-driving widgets, were all built to help small businesses grow. Through features like click-to-call,
click-to-map, coupons and reservations widget, we prove to our customers that we can help them convert their visitors into customers.
Last month we generated over 1,000,000 calls to businesses via our click-to-call widget, over 400,000 people clicked on our maps widget looking for directions to a business, and over 170,000 clicked on the open table reservation widget. We are constantly thinking of how we can make the perfect site for our customer's customer.
<h3> Duda offers an interesting partner program. Can you tell us a little more about that? </h3>
Our Duda Partner program is a key focus of the company. It is targeted at web professionals, agencies, marketers and web designers. It enables them to build websites or mobile sites in a very quick and easy way. 
In addition, the program provides discounted pricing on a per site basis, it gives partners access to specific features that they need. For example, white label access to their clients, branded preview tools, priority support, training material and more.
<h3> What is Duda's next goal? What can we expect to see coming down the road in future releases? </h3>
There is something very exciting that we are working on and is currently in beta. It's called Duda inSite and it provides the ability to automatically personalize a website based on different aspects like time of day, location of the user, device type etc. 
It's pretty exciting and I think it will be a very big hit. No other company has brought these type of capabilities to small businesses before.
<h3> Beyond tablets and smartphones, is Duda keeping tabs on emerging technology, such as wearable technology? In the future, what new areas could we see the website builder industry as a whole move into? </h3>
We had a Hackathon at Duda earlier in the year and one of the teams built a prototype of how a website would look like on Google Glass. It was pretty cool to develop that functionality as navigating a website on Google Glass is not very intuitive and with some modifications that can be done via the Duda platform, the experience could be much improved. We did things like making call to actions much bigger and more prominent on the page, so it is easier for a Google Glass user to click on them. 
I can't commit at this point as to if and when this functionality will be available publicly, but we are all the time thinking about the future of web design and wearables are definitely part of it.
 Thank you for your time Mr. Sadan. 
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LightCMS have announced yet more enhancements related to blogging, giving users greater control of when blog posts are published, customization ability, and additional search engine optimization related enhancements.
The popular platform allows you to have a website ready in just a few clicks, along with a suite of tools and features including eCommerce, blogging, stats, and more.
Team members over at LightCMS have certainly been busy recently. This is the third notable update in just over a month, with <a href="/lightcms-announce-new-social-features-interface-changes/" target="_blank">interface changes</a> and <a href="/lightcms-improve-website-security-through-ftps/" target="_blank">security improvements</a> being recently unveiled.
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For today's news though, let's take a look at what's new for LightCMS bloggers.
<h2>Publish Time, Meta Tags Description &amp; More</h2>
LightCMS have introduced four new blogging features with this update, and here they are below:
<ul>
<li>Publish Time: Makes it possible to write posts in advance and schedule them for publication at a future date and time.</li>
<li>Meta Tag Description: Each blog post now automatically uses the post summary for the Meta tag description by default.</li>
<li>HTML Head Fields: You can now you to enter custom header content such as JavaScript, CSS, or additional meta tags for each blog post. This functionality was previously available for pages only.</li>
<li>“Read More” Links: This user-customizable text displays at the end of the blog summary. Clicking the link displays the full blog post.</li>
</ul>
Also, LightCMS have thrown in some extra fixes and enhancements to go with these new blogging features. For example, files with SVG extensions are now supported by the file uploader, whilst copying a website now automatically creates it as a trial.
You can read about each of these new features and fixes in greater detail over at LightCMS' blog announcement.
Interestingly, LightCMS have also seized this opportunity to begin displaying their release notes. Release notes for this update, as well as all future LightCMS updates, can be found here.
To find out more about LightCMS, check out their website.
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The first time I ever got my hands dirty with a content management system, was back at the very beginning of 2011.  
 I was feeling entrepreneurial, and so I decided to launch an online store. To cut a long story short, I opted to use <a href="http://virtuemart.net/" target="_blank">VirtueMart</a> – an eCommerce extension for Joomla. Not my wisest move, but such was my inexperience.  
 Using my initials and some brilliant creativity, I came up with the name, “KI Electronics”. I bet you can't guess what I was selling.  
 It took me months of sleeping through Joomla and Virtuemart tutorials on YouTube before I was ready to launch my online store. When I finally did, I thought my days of dealing with the complicated “set up phase” were behind me. But boy was I wrong.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sos.png" /> From the day my store launched, until the day I laid it to rest at some stage in 2012, I wasted time, money and energy in a number of different ways. To be frank, it was a disaster. And here's why.
<h2>Pining for Plugins</h2>
Perhaps my biggest failure was my dependence and eagerness to use plugins/extensions.  
 If I had a problem with an image slider or gallery module, I'd trawl Joomla's huge extensions library for replacements. 
If I had security issues (which I very much did), I'd spend hours and hours researching different Joomla security solutions before spending days setting them up. Time wasn't really the issue though – it was expense. 
 I must have spent hundreds of dollars on a range of different plugins, many of which I ended up trashing. It was like an addiction.
 In hindsight, I should have spent my time learning how to delve into code in order to fix issues and improve my store for myself. Instead, I relied completely on the Joomla community to fix my problems. And it cost me dearly. 
<h2>Staying Stubborn</h2>
There were many points in my venture where I knew I needed to change things, but I was simply too stubborn to do so. 
 My Virtuemart template for example, wasn't the greatest. I knew I could switch to a different template, but because I had spent so long honing my original theme, I didn't want to change it.  
 More tellingly, I had also began to hear of Joomla alternatives. The world of CMS was opening up to me at the time, and my mind wandered. After all, even back in 2011, content management systems weren't hard to come by, no matter what type of project you had in mind. 
 But still, I remained stubborn. In my mind, I'd spent far too long learning about Joomla and Virtuemart to switch now. Months had gone by, and I didn't want my work to go to waste. So I stayed put.
 As you might have guessed, this stubborn avoidance of change (which in today's digitally evolving world is tantamount to suicide), paired with my reliance on Joomla extensions to keep my venture alive, eventually killed it once and for all.  
 It got to a point where I was throwing both money and time at extensions to secure and beautify my store, all whilst putting off a much needed migration to a more user-friendly eCommerce solution. 
<h2>The Silver Lining</h2>
Although my first encounter with a content management system was a disaster, I do see a silver lining.  
 Through my months of inexperienced tinkering with Joomla and Virtuemart, I learned a lot about eCommerce, setting up and maintaining websites, search engine optimization, and so forth. 
 Sure, every lesson I learned was the direct result of a mistake, but that's neither here nor there. It's thanks to the disaster of KI Electronics that led me to understand the Internet better. Not to mention, it gave me my first taste of running a website using a CMS.  
 Those same lessons helped me set up my current ventures, and even gave me the confidence to apply for a role here at CMS Critic. KI Electronics may be dead, but the lessons it taught me are still alive and kicking.  
 So, no matter which CMS you're using, the moral of this story is; don't rely totally on plugins, don't be stubborn when it comes to change, and never choose a project name as bad as KI Elecronics.

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DesignModo's latest product comes in the form of Startup Design Framework, otherwise known as <a href="http://designmodo.com/startup/?u=1182" target="_blank"> Startup Framework </a> .
Based on Bootstrap3, Startup Framework makes use of a block model system, aimed to give developers and designers the freedom to use over 100 customizable content blocks in different combinations, creating unique websites in the process.
The platform's intended purpose – as quoted from the <a href="http://designmodo.com/?u=1182" target="_blank"> DesignModo </a>  website – is simple:
<blockquote>
“We have created a new product that will help designers, developers and companies create websites for their startups quickly and easily.”
</blockquote>
Now, it's my turn to figure out whether Startup Framework succeeds of fails at serving that purpose.
To kick things off, take a look at the Startup Framework introductory video below.
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<h2>Initial Thoughts</h2>
DesignModo's intention to please designers, developers and companies struck me as interesting. After all, those are three diverse groups, each with different needs and wants.
Nonetheless, my first impressions were good. Their website was sleek and modern, and was giving me plenty of information about how Startup Framework functions.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
As previously mentioned, Startup Framework provides uses with over 100 content blocks that can be customized to no end by anybody handy with HTML and CSS. You can mix and match the blocks as you see fit, building a website along the way.
Now, this isn't a particularly new way of building websites. One-page sites have been around for a while, and the block-model isn't something unique to the Startup framework.
However, Startup Framework also pushes the beauty of its product right from the start, and rightly so. In fact, just a brief look at the DesignModo website will tell you that they're big on presentation, and that's always a good sign.  
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/2700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> Not to mention, being responsive and retina ready out of the box makes Startup Framework a platform which is in line with how Internet users are experiencing websites today. And that's important.
<h2>Getting Started</h2>
After I signed up with DesignModo and, I made my way to my account to find the downloadable Startup Framework zip file – which the DesignModo team generously gave me access to for the sake of this review.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
The file is split into two main sections; the “Developer” folder, and the “Designer” folder. Each contain different file types and components to help both developers and designers build websites quickly.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-6.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> Naturally, both folders are filled with useful files including multitudes of images, icons, and plenty of code to go along with it. Instead of taking you through every single file, let's take a look at the meat of what you'll generally need to kick start a Startup Framework project.
<h3>Flat UI &amp; Other Componenets</h3>
Weighing in at over 500MB, the zip file that houses Startup Framework is reasonably hefty. 
 Within the Startup Framework, DesignModo have included all their files from their <a href="http://designmodo.com/flat-free/" target="_blank"> Flat UI Free package </a> . This includes user interface elements such as buttons, menus, alerts, forms, and tables, all of which have been designed with Flat UI (or Flat Design) in mind. 
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/1700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> Startup Framework is filled to the brim with such CSS and LESS files, most of which relate to the 100 blocks used to quickly build websites. 
 These blocks fall into nine different categories:
<ul>
<li> Header Blocks: The first block visitors will see, typically contains logo area and menu navigation.</li>
<li> Content 1: Standard content area for text, images, banners, buttons, and icons.</li>
<li> Content 2: Another content area which includes videos, signup forms, grids, and sliders.</li>
<li> Footer: The last block on the page, typically for contact information. Can include maps, links, banners, and signup forms.</li>
<li> Projects: Ideal for displaying portfolio items and other images.</li>
<li> Price Tables: Varied pricing table options.</li>
<li> Blog: Varied layouts of blog posts and other blog features.</li>
<li> Crew: Meant for a “meet the team” section, including photos, bio and social links.</li>
<li> Contact: Varied layouts to show contact details with options forms and maps.</li>
</ul>
Now, if you want to rely entirely on your coding skills to get your Startup Framework project going, then the tools are certainly there.
On the other hand, if starting from scratch doesn't sound too appealing, there is an alternative way to give a Startup Framework project life.
<h3>Generator</h3>
At first glance, it appears that the Startup Framework is for code junkies alone. However, <a href="http://designmodo.com/generator/" target="_blank"> Generator </a>  provides a helping hand for those who don't know their header tags from their footer tags.
Generator is a drag-and-drop tool which contains all of Startup Framework's 100 ready-to-use building blocks. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/4700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> You can build website mockups using the drag-and-drop system by grabbing them from the sidebar, dropping them into place, before shuffling them around and deleting the blocks you don't like. 
 Generator is super easy to use, and is perfect for thinking up design ideas. 
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/2-1700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> More importantly though, it's also an awesome collaboration tool. 
 At the bottom of Generator, you'll notice a “Share” Project” button. Pressing this gives you a permalink which you can send to clients and other members of your team. There are even social sharing links available. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/5.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
However, the biggest advantage of using Generator, is the export function. Right next to the “Share Project” button, you'll see “Export as HTML/CSS”. 
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/6.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
That's right. 
 Any mock up you build using the drag-and-drop interface can be quickly exported, ready to be customized and built upon if necessary. Now that's awesome. 
 Essentially, this means that Generator isn't just a neat design idea tool – it's also a genuinely easy way to start actual projects from scratch. 
 Now, as impressed as I am with Generator, the more I experimented with it, the more I wanted more from it. And more importantly, the more I felt that less tech-savvy users (like clients for example) would want more from it.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/3700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
Sure, it’s an extremely useful tool for getting started with a project, giving you the foundations of a website to export before you dig into the code for yourself.
However, I’m sure that some of those “companies” DesignModo want to help out will consist of people who want to do more than just drag-and-drop blocks into place. They will want a little more creative license, especially if they're relying on somebody else for their coding skills.
For example, simply giving the user a colour selector and perhaps even an inline text editor would really help bring less-technical users into the fray a little more. 
<h3>Putting it Together</h3>
With help from Generator, a small amount of coding, and perhaps less than half-an-hour from start to finish, I was able to construct a admittedly rough one-page website that had all the nuts and bolts in place, ready to be tweaked to perfection.  
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/cmsstartup700x0.png" alt="CMS Critic Startup Framework" />
Notice I said only a small amount of coding. 
 Thanks to Startup Framework's excellent block model, which comesfurnished with over 100 brilliantly designed blocks, you don't actually need to do much coding to make it look professional and personal. Sure, the above website is far from perfect – but for half an hours work? It's great. If I do say so myself.
<h2>Templates &amp; Design</h2>
DesignModo give away 25 free “Samples” with every copy of Startup Framework. Well, they call them samples, but they're really templates.  
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/1-1700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> Each template is unique, boasting diferent colour palattes, parallax effects, sliders, block configurations and so forth. They're all neatly presented in their very own folder inside Startup Framework, allowing you to quickly browse through them. 
 If you're looking to get a project started super fast – or you're simply not that confident starting from scratch, then choosing a template to use as a foundation will really help you out. It's also a great way to think up ideas to throw together on Generator. 
 <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/2-2700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> In fact, the bundled templates are a pretty decent alternative to using Generator as a starting point altogether. After all, Generator is only capable of dragging blocks into place, leaving the heavier work to you and your coding skills. However, by using a template to kick start a project will give you plenty of extra visual effects, text areas, images and so forth right out of the box.  
For me, the 25 samples/templates all look stunning, and will be a welcome inspiration source for code-junkies, and a much needed foundation for code-junkie-wannabes. 
<h2>Add Ons &amp; Extras</h2>
The  <a href="http://designmodo.com/?u=1182" target="_blank"> DesignModo Shop </a>  hosts a small number of digital goodies to help enhance the already sleek look of the Startup Frameworks building blocks.
Aside from the Startup Framework itself, the shop is home to; Flat UI Pro, Square UI and The Bricks UI Bundle Pack.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/shop700x0.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
All of these products are collections of PSD files which come ready to implement into your Startup Frame work website.
Just like with Startup Framework, the focus of the store is on Flat UI, otherwise known as Flat Design. The collections consist of buttons, forms, menus, sliders and so on, all tastefully designed in way which is modern, minimalist and, well, flat.
Pricing is fair, and each package would compliment what you already get with Startup Framework nicely
<h2>Getting Help</h2>
The support system DesignModo offer for Startup Framework isn't bad, but it isn't great either.
Extensive documentation can be found within Startup Framework itself, but the most useful type of help offered is through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLOJhs8F2y2iYthajewsE3w"> DesignModo’s YouTube page </a> , where over 40 tutorial videos are located.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/tutorial.png" alt="Startup Framework" />
There is also a <a href="http://designmodo.com/tutorials/" target="_blank"> tutorial section on the DesignModo website </a> , which in fairness is laden with a range of walk-throughs relating to HTML, CSS, LESS and so forth. However, it isn't organised very well, nor is there a search function. So, if you're looking for something specific, be prepared to trawl through every page.
What seems to be missing though, is a community.
With over <a href="https://twitter.com/designmodo" target="_blank"> 225,000 Twitter followers </a>  and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/designmodo" target="_blank"> 115,000 likes on Facebook </a> , it’s a pity that DesignModo haven’t yet set up an online community related to Startup Framework. Not to mention, the Startup Framework website itself is full of comments, the vast majority of which are from users and potential users asking questions. 
 Not only would a community of some kind be a way of delivering help and support, but users of Startup Framework would be able to support each other, too.
<h2>Pricing</h2>
To download the Startup Framework, you will need to pay a fee of $249. However, this fee only suffices for one license. Further licences must be purchased for a fee of $149.
That means that you will need to pay an additional $149 for every additional project you want to build using the Startup Framework. For me, that's a little steep if web development is your profession, and you aim to use Startup Framework as your primary framework.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/price.png" alt="Startup Framework" /> Furthermore, there are plenty of extremely popular and completely free frameworks on the market which many will argue rival Startup Framework. Such solutions include Brick by Mozilla and <a href="http://semantic-ui.com/"> Semantic UI </a> .
On the other hand, Startup Framework comes bundled with a very large range of ready-to-go blocks, 25 pre-designed templates and Generator to boot. Hardly daylight robbery. 
 So, you get what you pay for, but perhaps DesignModo should consider reforming their re-licensing fee.
<h2>The Verdict</h2>
DesignModo's Startup Framework provides a beautiful foundation for one-page websites. It gives you the palette, the brush and the canvas, giving you the power to create a responsive, retina ready masterpiece.
Every single one of the 100 pre-designed content blocks are sleek and professional right out of the box. With these building blocks ready to go, paired with Generator, even those with limited coding skills can construct stunning webpages.
What I loved most was DesignModo's ability to cater to designers, developers and companies – just as they promised. This range of friendliness is down to the hands-off approach of the Startup Framework. 
 It just seems to say, “Here are the ready-made content blocks, there's Generator, and over there you'll find every HTML, CSS, LESS and PSD file you'll need to change absolutely everything. Enjoy.”
It can be extremely simple, or extremely complex. It's your choice.
<h3>Pros</h3>
<ul>
<li>Over 100 beautifully designed and customizable content blocks that can be used to immediately peice together a website.</li>
<li>Lots of focus on modern &amp; flat design right out of the box and throughout addons.</li>
<li>With Bootstrap3, HTML5 and LESS, Startup Framework is technologically sound.</li>
<li>25 samples (templates) along with 14 highly professional images come free.</li>
<li>Generator opens the door to a whole new method of website development with Startup Framework. Huge potential if DesignModo keep adding to it.</li>
<li>Fully responsive and retina ready.</li>
<li>As a one-off purchase, $249 is good value for money when you look at the totality of what you get.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Cons</h3>
<ul>
<li>The help and support system could definitely be improved with FAQs, forums and perhaps a ticketing system.</li>
<li>Generator – although extremely useful – could do with some extra functionality.</li>
<li>The $249 pricetag is fair, but all additional licenses for other projects cost a further $149 each, which is steep.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Final Remarks</h2>
Although Startup Framework is geared towards startups, it isn't for newbies looking for a spoon-feeding website builder. But then again, it never claimed to be.
If you know your way around code, need a beautiful website and solid framework to work with, then I have no qualms in recommending Startup Framework. 
The framework’s focus on <a href="/strikingly-websitebuilder">strikingly</a> simple flat UI makes it a perfect fit for tech and software startups, and thanks to the bundled building blocks, UI kits and templates, there’s already a great deal of genuinely good looking groundwork waiting for you to build upon.
Generator also gives Startup Framework an exciting edge over its rivals. On its own, it’s a humble drag-and-drop block builder purely for design idea purposes, but paired with the Startup Framework, it acts as the starting point for all projects large and small.
Plus, if you ask me, if DesignModo decide to focus on adding more functionality to Generator, they could have one of the most powerful and accessible frameworks for one-page websites on the market. In fact, they may even begin to rival mainstream website builders.
Don’t just take my word for it though, try out the <a href="http://designmodo.com/startup/?u=1182" target="_blank"> Startup Framework Demo </a>  for yourself.
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