SilverStripe could be easily extended using modules, themes or widgets; or even more customized with Saphire framework. Released under (revised) BSD License. SilverStripe CMS features include :

• Create new pages and drag and drop them where you want them to be in the sitemap
• Edit and style content using a toolbar with familiar buttons and dropdowns (similar to MS Word)
• Easily insert links, images, and Flash into your content
• Copy and paste content from MS Word
• View a draft of your content changes before pushing them live
• Publish changes to your site with one click of a button
• Assign different user roles and permissions for each section or even page of your site
• View older versions of a page and roll back if needed
• Search-engine friendly , Standard compliant, Accessible, ...

More information at http://silverstripe.org

From community feedback it appears that eZ Publish using Windows is about 30% quicker with PHP 5.3.0. I decided to validate these reports and confirm the performance of eZ Publish using PHP 5.3.0 with a linux environment.

The benchmark have been done with eZ Publish 4.1.3 and ApacheBench 2.3 using OpenSuse 11.1, PHP 5.3.0, APC 3.1.2, Apache 1.3.41, MySQL 5.0.67. Server hardware CPU: Core 2 Quad 3.5 GHz, RAM: 8 GB and finally HDD: SATA 7200 RPM.

Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python.

Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.

With Midgard, you can have your data everywhere, from mobile devices the web server. It enables peer-to-peer sharing of information, and makes it possible to have all the materials you need also when offline.

A very intersting CMS Framework project supporting PHP5 and jQuery with a great documentation. Binary packages of Midgard are available for Debian, Fedora, Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu. Midgard is released under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).

If you are looking for a high accuracy spelling solution, that improves writing style, finds grammar errors, you might check their free service plan and give it a try.

The portal is divided into five major areas, which are the points of entry for other information:

* list of services available to citizens,
* services and information for the business environment,
* information about Paraná,
* government information, and
* news,

All divided by tabs and color specific.

According to Mr. Iensen, the focus of the portal is to provide information to Parana's citizen, with the ranking of information in order to organize the content and ensure the integrity and robustness of published data. The goal is to maintain the distribution of content based on the national standard for electronic government (e-gov).

It's typical in the Open Source environment that developers work on a project, but then have different ideas, and leave to create a fork. Most of the time they never come back.

So it's a sign of a visionary leadership of the current XOOPS team that they have reached out and were able to attract back three of its recent and most innovative forks:

• Simple-XOOPS under leadership of Dirk Herrmann from Germany (www.simple-xoops.de),
• EXM System under leadership of Eduardo Cortes from Mexico (www.exmsystem.org), and
• Zarilia under leadership of John Neill from UK.

It is also a clear vote of confidence from the forks' developers for the current leadership team of XOOPS and their direction.

All of these forks are very innovative and will bring wealth of features back to XOOPS that will benefit XOOPS users for years to come, and will enhance the upcoming XOOPS 3.0 release. It also show XOOPS' increased effort to bring together and unite XOOPS developers from around the world.

After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just three short months, the XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has released a new version of its award winning software - XOOPS 2.3.3.

This release focused on bug fixes and usability improvements. Some of the major changes are:

• improved profile and pm modules
• improved installer
• improved theme
• improved tinymce editor

The improved installer is the highlight of this release, providing an easy way to install not only the program, but also important modules. The key for this new release was an active collaboration of XOOPS developers from around the world: China, France, UK, USA, Germany, Peru, Libya, Belgium, Netherlands, and several others. The worldwide XOOPS community is one of its strength, resulting in a quick translation of new releases into over 20 languages.

XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award.

Content management solutions such as Joomla, Drupal, Magnolia and LifeRay are experiencing rapid growth, as they ramp up to meet the business community's desire for easy-to-use website development software that empowers teams to collaboratively create and update content. They can do it from the office, home, or even on the road - so long as they have access to the internet.

To meet the groundswell demand for information, training and a sense of community in the open source CMS realm, the US-based CMS Association announced its second international Exposition, to be held in Denver, Colorado. Dubbed the "Winter 2008 CMSA Expo," the event will take place on Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th.

The download version includes a webinstaller and several new modules like a link directory, Corporate Blog, Podcast, Adressdirectory, Sitemaps, Forum, Image gallery and much more.

"We are very excited to have this release out and have seen tremendous adoption of our project by many users even before our first release. The goal of this project is to bring people together to design and develop a product that works for them. With the amount of community development and support we have seen so early, we are confident our philosophy is a hit with the community," development spokesperson Marc-André Lanciault explains.

PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming. By allowing such uncommon flexibility, PureEdit empowers you to design web sites from the ground up, without forcing you to follow the narrow template rules you'll find elsewhere.

There are some screencasts on their website which shows how it works. PureEdit is written in php with support for MySQL (others coming soon). More information and download from http://www.pureedit.com/.

TORONTO, ONTARIO – Prinova Software Inc., a leader in innovative document design, development and delivery solutions, announced today that the much-anticipated messagepoint TM content management software tool was launched on February 4th, 2008.

"After watching marketing and business users in customer after customer struggle to deliver campaign and message content into various delivery channels without viable solutions, we decided to solve this problem ourselves," said Nick Romano, President of Prinova. "We are excited to introduce messagepointTM, our web-based software solution that allows multi-channel marketers to control their messaging across all touchpoints and channels without requiring IT involvement."

More improvements include :

• Improved Safari support.
• New Office 2007 skin.
• Inline dialogs are now cleaned up and used by default.
• More semantically correct output, more flexible and powerful serialization engine.
• On-demand loading of TinyMCE and it's plugins.

More information and download at http://tinymce.moxiecode.com

Introduction to Joomla!

The book starts with a brief introduction to content management systems and Joomla! Talking about the project history and how it forked from Mambo, then its features and how Joomla system works. Briefly, but I think it's necessary to get to know the project better. Finally the author pointed to differences between Joomla 1.0 and 1.5, where features have been boosted but compatibility have been broken for plugins between 1.0, 1.5 and mambo.

Quickstart: Setting up a Joomla site in 20 minutes

The second chapter, as its title indicates, dive you directly into Joomla world from the installer. The chapter explains how to install Joomla and make it working in 20 minutes, but I'm sure that before you finish the book you will be able to install it in less than one minute. There are issues very confusing with the installation especially for newbie's, so if you are new to Joomla management interface be sure to install the sample data. Many ignored since it's optional and the book just mentioned briefly in a screenshot.

Now that you have Joomla installed and working correctly, the book give you an introduction to be more familiar with the management interface: Adding articles, managing menus, personalize the logo, and different components in place. This is probably the end of the novice part of the book and you will see in next chapters more intermediate and advanced topics.

Oslo, Norway, December 14, 2007 - WebDeal, which already held the position of leading hosting provider for eZ Publish 3.x, is now the first hosting company to announce support for the newly released eZ Publish 4 on all of its hosting levels. The new version of the popular content management system (CMS) meets WebDeal's strict quality standards and is available for immediate delivery.

This will allow their eZ Publish 4.0 customers to grow from a Shared Hosting environment to Fully Managed Dedicated Clusters without the hassle of having to switch hosting providers. One of WebDeal's biggest advantages has been its short lead-time delivery of pre-loaded eZ Publish hosting. With its new eZ Publish 4.0 hosting, the already short lead-time on Premium Shared Hosting has been reduced even more: in most cases customers will only have to wait 5 minutes before their eZ Publish site is up and running! And if they choose a more complex Fully Managed Dedicated Server with eZ Publish, they will only have to deal with a delivery time of about 3 hours.