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Not All Heroes Wear Capes. Here's Why CMS Is Your 'Unsung Hero' in 2025

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FancyCMS team has recently released a desktop flash CMS application called FancyPlus, that is available for free download at their website. It is an offline flash template editor with built in FTP publisher.
Here are some of the features:
<ul>
<li>Allows to edit multiple templates and save them as separate projects;</li>
<li>Does not require internet connection;</li>
<li>WYSIWYG editor;</li>
<li>E-commerce module;</li>
<li>Free updates.</li>
</ul>
At the present moment there's only one FancyPlus template, which is in the package. Guys at FancyCMS aim to release flash templates for their software on a regular basis – both free and premium ones.
Additional information: FancyCMS Homepage – <a href="http://fancycms.com">http://fancycms.com</a> FancyPlus – <a href="http://fancycms.com/fancyplus-desktop-flash-cms/">http://fancycms.com/fancyplus-desktop-flash-cms/</a>
Note: The application requires you to register, but still the registration is free.

FancyPlus: Free Desktop Flash CMS

mike-johnston

We've been using <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> on and off here at CMS Critic for the last few years. On a couple of occassions, we've gone to great lengths to switch to other platforms to counter the various frustrations we've experience with WP.
Some of those frustrations included:
<ul>
<li>Having to update plugins individually. (pain when you have a large number of them).</li>
<li>Issues with WP Dashboard not responding as well as it should with browsers other than internet explorer.</li>
<li>Speed issues (yes, with a number of plugins, it started to feel sluggish)</li>
</ul>
Let me say that when I first clicked on the auto – upgrade to version 3.. I was worried that everything would break and / or I would end up with something I hated.  I'm pleased to say I am wrong.
Before I explain why, let me tell you a little side story for a moment. There is a CMS called MovableType that once contended with WordPress (I say one, because it's no longer in the same league let alone ballpark). It's 4.x series was a decent platform and was nice to work with but MT lacked community size and ease of use. Then, for some unknown reason, someone decided to try to mimick the WordPress dashboard look and feel and with that, in my opinion, they shot themselves in the foot. They now have what I believe is one of the worst admin interfaces I've seen. (some of you may still use and find MT suits your needs but imho it's a dead platform without a positive future)
The WordPress team have done the opposite. Instead of trying to redesign an already very usable dashboard into something over the top, they simply did their best to make things easier and quicker. It wasn't about adding more “stuff” but more about making the stuff that was there more usable.
Here are some of the things I've noticed so far:
<ul>
<li>The Ajax back-end seems to not be so jumpy and skittish when moving windows around in the dashboard and it likes all of the browsers I've used so far.</li>
<li>Multiple Plugin Updates! &lt;- This alone is my single most appreciated feature and god bless them for adding it.</li>
<li>Drop down menu – Nice quick access to posts and the like with a simple dropdown to speed up the process.</li>
<li>The new default theme (Twenty Ten) is very nice and usable.</li>
</ul>
These are just a few of the improvements. For a full list, check out our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/wordpress-30-final-released/">WordPress 3.0 announcement</a> of the release (there's even a video there for those of you who hate reading :P)
My Final Thoughts
Loving every minute of it! Thanks <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt</a> and team.. you've done something wonderful with WordPress and we're truly appreciative.
For those who can't wait.. Here's the video:

WordPress Review - It's all grown up and going to college

Today the TYPO3 Association released the newest version of their Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.6 million times – making it one of the world’s leading Enterprise Open Source projects. The latest TYPO3 version 4.4 makes TYPO3 easier than ever before – especially for newbies. A TYPO3 website is now up and running in 5 minutes after it has been downloaded and using the included template it is ready to use right away.
The most important innovations at a glance:
<ul>
<li>Introduction Package, to start immediately</li>
<li>Updated Look &amp; Feel</li>
<li>Easier Installation</li>
<li>Faster Rich Text Editor</li>
<li>New Taskcenter</li>
</ul>
TYPO3 version 4.4 innovations in detail:
Introduction Package, to start immediately
The new introduction package offers TYPO3 newbies a configurable template immediately after installation. Using simple examples it demonstrates TYPO3 concepts and possibilities. At the same time this template can of course be used for the first own website, since e.g. the colour-scheme of the template can easily be changed without TYPO3 expert knowledge.
Updated Look &amp; Feel in the TYPO3 Backend
The TYPO3 Backend now has a new visual appearance with improved look &amp; feel. Additionally the entire backend CSS has been revised which also improves the overall backend loading speed. Custom backend skins can now be created much easier thanks to this restructuring.
Easier 3-Step Installation
Installing TYPO3 using the new installation script is a lot easier than before. In three easy steps TYPO3 is up and running and users can even change to their preferred database system in the process. Clever defaults keep the user from having to make too many decisions and therefore simplifies getting started with TYPO3.
Faster Rich Text Editor
The built-in editor „HTMLarea“ is now completely based on ExtJS, the JavaScript framework that TYPO3 includes since version 4.3. It is now the first and only feature-complete Open Source Rich Text Editor (RTE) that is based entirely on ExtJS, freely available for the public and now included out-of-the-box in TYPO3 version 4.4. For the TYPO3 Backend editor this means improved loading speed of the text editor without having to give up on any of its features.
New Task Center
The new TYPO3 Task Center allows for the creation and management of tasks for all TYPO3 backend users. Additionally editors can send notes to each other and instantly find the documents they edited recently. With its completely revised interface the new Task Center fits seamlessly into the new look &amp; feel of TYPO3 version 4.4.
Get TYPO3 version 4.4 now!
TYPO3 version 4.4 can be downloaded directly from <a href="http://www.typo3.org/download/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.typo3.org/download/</a>. Technical documentation and the detailed release notes can be found at <a href="http://typo3.org/download/release-notes/typo3-44/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://typo3.org/download/release-notes/typo3-44/</a>

Typo3 version 4.4 is now available

Two years after going open source, concrete5 now powers over 50,000 websites, only a small handful of which are actually hosted by the project's core team. Now concrete5 site owners can easily get support on a per instance basis regardless of where their site is being hosted.
“The free forums and consulting services of many shops and freelancers have always provided a range of options to make a site work, but there was never a clear safety net for site owners until now.” says Founder and CEO Franz Maruna. “We're not trying to be the cheapest or the fastest, we just want everyone who chooses concrete5 to know that their site will grow with them for many years to come. This new incident support option means hosting with us isn't the only way to get the security of the core team's attention.”
The core team behind concrete5 is spending more and more time helping large enterprises and institutions implement concrete5 effectively. The creation of this new service and the dedication of the resources behind it shows they are committed to providing top-tier support for large and small clients alike.
For more information on concrete5 Incident Support: <a href="http://www.concrete5.org/services/support/">http://www.concrete5.org/services/support/</a>

concrete5 Support Available to Everyone

Elxis, whom we rated as one of the top SEO focused CMS in our article: “<a href="/the-top-10-best-seo-friendly-cms/">Top 10 SEO Friendly Content Management Systems</a>” has a new release available entitled Electra 2009.2.
Full release notes (detailed with screenshots) can be found on their <a href="http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Elxis_2009.2_release_notes">wiki</a> but here is a summary:
<ul>
<li>automatic translation to more than 90 languages</li>
<li>update checking</li>
<li>new link sharing tools</li>
<li>new comment notification features</li>
<li>the ability to easily invoke secure url's</li>
<li>a new set of screens used to display site-wide messages such as fatal errors and site offline status.</li>
</ul>
Details: <a href="http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Elxis_2009.2_release_notes">http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Elxis_2009.2_release_notes</a>

Elxis open source CMS 2009.2 released

The incredible WordPress blog platform today sees its 3.0 final release. WordPress 3 brings a significant number of improvements including, but not limited to:
<ul>
<li>new default theme: Twenty Ten</li>
<li>new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies.</li>
<li>a long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.</li>
<li>a lighter overall feel with contextual help on every screen.</li>
<li>bulk plugin updating! (this kills off one of our largest pet peeves.. bless your hearts WP dev team)</li>
</ul>
More info: <a href="https://www.wordpress.org">http://www.wordpress.org</a>

WordPress 3.0 final has been released

Spoonlabs is proud to announce the arrival of 4.5 version of Vivvo, its flagship news content management platform, featuring over 140 enhancements and improvements and presenting a new paradigm for profitable and effective online news publishing.
The new version offers a range of important features and significant usability enhancements, including tight integration with Google™ Analytics (GA) – a truly amazing service for marketers that will bring an important edge in evaluating the success of formats, news stories and other featured content.
Furthermore, Vivvo 4.5 is introducing a range of improvements and features including: –   Memory-based caching, bringing dramatic improvements to site's speed and content delivery; –   Content Versioning (revisions) and Content Scheduling; –   New concept of topics, giving publishers the ability to provide semantic relations to the content, cross-post across different sections, and control homepage and other sections of website with incredible ease; –   Trashbin/soft delete function, which not only keeps articles from accidental deleting, but allows publishers to precisely manage control over who can delete articles and also to set automatic purge periods.
These important instruments in a content management process will give busy webmasters, developers and entrepreneurs tools that up to now have only been available to large media organizations and will enable them to extract new sources of revenue from online readers and advertisers.
With the version 4.5, Vivvo CMS retains its leadership position as the most cost-effective package on the commercial open source market; prices start at only $295 and $999, for the professional and the developer/server license, respectively.
More about Vivvo CMS
Vivvo is a news content management system (CMS) atop a powerful framework, empowering thousands of industry leading online newspapers, magazines, portals and media agencies. Localized to over 25 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Persian and Spanish, its continually growing community of webmasters, developers, design studios, entrepreneurs and technology partners testifies to its effectiveness as an online news publishing solution. You can start evaluating Vivvo 4.5 instantly by signing up for a free trial account hosted on our servers for 21 days: <a href="http://www.getvivvo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.getvivvo.com</a>
For more information about Vivvo CMS and the new version, please visit us at: <a href="http://www.vivvo.net/whatsnew/" target="_blank">http://www.vivvo.net/whatsnew/</a>

Spoonlabs Launches Vivvo 4.5, a New Version of Their Flagship Content Management Platform

Hot on the heels of Tiki 5.0, the Tiki community is proud to announce the releases of Tiki 4.3 and 3.6LTS. Both versions included primarily fixes and patches. Users of Tiki 4.x and 3.x are encouraged to upgraded to this new release
Tiki 3.6 is the Long Term Support (LTS) version and will continue to receive patches, fixes, and security updates. Tiki 4.3 is the final release in the Tiki 4.x branch. See the development roadmap (http://dev.tikiwiki.org/roadmap) for complete information
Tiki 6 Development Underway
The Tiki community has already begun development of Tiki 6, the next major release. Planned features include:
<ul>
<li> Theme generator</li>
<li>Learning management system</li>
<li> Extended work on shopping carts</li>
<li>Community currencies system</li>
<li>Upgrade to Smarty 3</li>
<li> Support of HTML5</li>
</ul>
See http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki6 for more information. Tiki 6 is planned for October, 2010. Early adopters can obtain development versions of Tiki 6 (and all Tiki releases) from <a href="http://tikiwiki.org/download">http://tikiwiki.org/download</a>

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Releases 4.3 and 3.6LTS

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CMS. Content. AI. Where is it all headed?

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<a href="http://www.indigloo.com/">Indigloo</a> Builder allows people to add text, image, videos and maps easily. Indigloo provides advanced features like standard grid system to divide areas, power to move contents over one another, ability to create multilevel menus, Place holder for meta tags and keywords for each page etc.

Features are not restricted for free users. Its main target audience is individuals, businesses and people who want to earn from google adsense program.
There is a pro plan of 30 us dollars for users who want custom domain names.Its target audience is business,individuals and people who want to earn from google adsense programs.
Its very easy to understand and use for novice users.It makes having a site of any nature a true possibility for everybody.

Indigloo website builder gives more power

The latest generation of Tiki is now available. This version, release 5.0, includes 3129 code contributions by more than 40 members of the Tiki community and features lots of new and improved functionality, including:
<ul>
<li> Shopping cart, group subscriptions and payments</li>
<li> Workspaces &amp; perspectives: for efficient partitioning of large projects, with permission based dynamic content &amp; preference filtering</li>
<li> BigBlueButton web-conferencing integration (audio/video/chat/screensharing)</li>
<li> WebDAV access to file galleries</li>
<li> Performance improvements</li>
<li> Advanced rating and scoring system,</li>
<li> Improved translation/multilingual support – i18n</li>
<li> Spreadsheet now using jQuery</li>
<li> New themes (skins)</li>
<li> and much more more</li>
</ul>
For complete information, see <a href="http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki5">http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki5</a>.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 5.0 is Released

Liferay, Inc., today debuted at the company’s East Coast Symposium event in Reston, VA, three new advancements for web developers and the Liferay community; Liferay Alloy UI, Liferay Live and a new program labeled “Design with Liferay” targeted at the extensive set of portal customers worldwide facing the end of feature life for their current platform.
With massive consolidation in the portal market in recent years, and several products effectively facing an end-of-feature-life phase, many customers are looking for a strategy to smartly transition to Liferay Portal.  Liferay’s excellent community (now over 28,000 people), innovative features and lightweight aspects provide the best option for these customers.  In response, Liferay today launched the “Design with Liferay” program, to support these business and technical managers faced with transition.  As part of the program, Liferay will provide for a limited time a “First Year Free” program to help business leaders in their transition plans plus is making available a transition workshop to help managers develop a successful plan of action.
“Liferay Portal is well loved in enterprises worldwide, but customers need a safe and cost effective plan to transition from their older platforms.”, said Paul Hinz, Liferay’s Chief Marketing Officer. “While customers could choose to pay for a support contract after a product enters feature end of life, implementations using this software become stagnant and the technical people and skills used to maintain deployments cannot be used elsewhere.  With the support of Liferay partners and the Design with Liferay program, this is a great time to transition to Liferay.”
Liferay also announced today Liferay Live, an innovative offer for Liferay community members and customers to grow their skills in Liferay.  The collaborative web-casting site will be used to provide the community both business and technical presentations on Liferay and partner technologies.
Additionally, as part of the Design with Liferay program, Liferay is announcing the immediate availability of Liferay Alloy UI.  Built in collaboration with Yahoo’s YUI project, Alloy UI provides a concise set of widgets used to develop portlets, portal pages or stand-alone web applications and web content.  Alloy UI is a UI meta-framework that provides a consistent and simple API for building web applications across all three levels of the browser: structure, style and behavior.   Liferay Alloy UI does not require a portal but can be used for any web application and when used with Liferay Portal, expands the simplicity and capabilities of an enterprise portal application.  Liferay Alloy UI allows customers looking to transition to Liferay from older platforms both a way to simplify the transition as well as allow designers to make the new deployment more feature rich ensuring the new services are more than the old.
“Alloy UI represents a new capability for web developers to simplify the development of rich UI’s,”said Brian Chan, Liferay Portal’s creator and Chief Software Architect. “We are happy to have worked on this with the Yahoo team and feel it will be a great benefit to the Liferay Community.”
For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.liferay.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.liferay.com</a>.

Liferay announces the availability of Alloy UI, Liferay Live and the “Design with Liferay” program

Sitecore released their online marketing suite and since doing so, have had a major impact on the CMS market with their new capabilities. Today, we're going to take a look at the power of this application and what it can do to help your business.
So what exactly does the OMS do?
Real Time Site Personalization
So what does this mean to you? Well, in a nutshell, the system lets you set up variables that change the content and layout of your website based on those variables.
Sound complicated? It's not. Here's an example.
Let's say you have a page on Sports and you decide that if visitors to your site click on a certain link related to hockey, then you want the site to restructure the main page around Hockey and put less focus on the other sports. It will do all of this, in real time.
What it does is show a different type of site, based on the different type of visitor you receive, increasing your ability to target your site towards the different groups of visitors you receive. Anyone who knows marketing knows this is a powerful tool.

Do you ever ask yourself the following questions: What are my visitors doing? How are they navigating my site to get the content they need and is there a better way I can restructure my site to help them find that content quicker? That's where the new advanced analytics come in to play.
Advanced Analytics
You'll know the sources they came from, what they searched for on and off site, the goals they reached and content they consumed.

You can also setup and structure campaigns around this data:

You can also help your sales staff by providing them with advanced analytics, alerts and more using the new Sales enablement features.
Sales Team Alerting with Prospects
I could try to describe this myself but the Sitecore team does it in a way I can't really reword better:
<blockquote>
The Online Marketing Suite transforms your website into an extension of the Sales team by identifying new and active prospects on the site, detailing the experience in understandable terms, and immediately providing this intelligence to Sales. With our GeoIP tracking abilities, your sales team will know the lead's Country, State, City, and potentially their Company name. You'll get quick notification, well scored and qualified leads, and have insight into your website visitors' experience on the site.
This can be integrated into leading CRM systems, so you can leverage and control this new information in your familiar environment.
</blockquote>

This video explains it best and gives you a good rundown of the Sitecore CMS features (Warning: 75 minutes in length):
<a href="http://vimeo.com/12339525">Sitecore CMS</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2149662">mike johnston</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.
After watching the video, if you aren't convinced that this is revolutionary and a must have for your CMS, then I must be missing something.
Learn more at <a href="http://www.sitecore.net">Sitecore</a>

Sitecore Review: Sitecore online marketing suite.

A new release candidate of PHP-Fusion v7.01 has been made available.
From the website:
<blockquote>
This package is only meant for people willing to help us with the final inspection of v7.01, which we plan to release as soon as possible, and considering everyone is expecting the final result you should aim for a maximum of two weeks of testing. Just to be safe, do not use this package on a production website unless you backup everything before and you are willing to take responsibility for fixing anything going wrong after the update.
</blockquote>
A quick summary of the changes:
<ul>
<li>session support for user login</li>
<li>user management system upgrade (temporary ban with reason, anonymize accounts, account cancellation by members etc)</li>
<li>three types on maintainence levels (Admins/Super Admins/Owner)</li>
<li>go.php redirector for submitted web links</li>
<li>SMTP port can be specified inside the admin panel</li>
<li>user avatar auto resize</li>
<li>BB code in navigation links</li>
<li>custom image for news</li>
<li>download admin page includes file upload form</li>
<li>custom pages ID now visible in front of it's title in the admin panel's drop down box, for convenience reasons</li>
<li>blacklist now includes the name of the admin who added the entry + the time stamp</li>
<li>comments and ratings can be toggled on/off globally from the admin panel</li>
<li>the visitor counter can be toggled from the admin panel</li>
</ul>

PHP-Fusion v7.01 Release Candidate 2 available

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