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Hosted Pixie!

scott — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:12:00 +0000

This is for those of you who have downloaded Pixie and said "I cannot get it to work" or "my hosting does not do what its suppose to". We are super excited to announce that you can now get Pixie installed along with an excellent hosting package. We are calling it "Hosted Pixie" (if you had not noticed all the Pink banners around the site).

We have teamed up with Arvixe and Softaculous to bring you a one click install of Pixie on any Arvixe hosting package. It makes getting started with Pixie even easier. The hosting packages start at $4 and provide you with:

Unlimited disk space
Unlimited data transfer
POP3 and IMAP email
Unlimited email addresses
PHP5
Unlimited MySQL Databases

We look forward to seeing even more Pixie sites!

Tagged: pixie, hosting, servers, launch

Pixie makes the finals

scott — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Great news! Pixie has made it through to the finals of the Packt publishing Open Source CMS Awards in the category of "Most Promising Open Source CMS".

Once again we need your help, voting has already started and we are up against some great competition, the final five are:

Public votes will be combined with ratings from a panel of Judges with the winners announced on November 9. Packt is also giving away an 8GB iPod Touch to three lucky winners chosen randomly from the voting stage. Vote for Pixie »

Tagged: award, pixie, support

Vote for Pixie - Most Promising Open Source CMS

scott — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:31:00 +0000

We are proud to announce that Pixie has been nominated in the "Most Promising Open Source CMS" category of this years PacktPub CMS Awards. If you have found Pixie a useful tool we would really appreciate a vote:

Your votes (for this first stage) must be made by 10th September 2009. Thanks :)

Tagged: pixie, support, award

One year on

scott — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:39:00 +0000

Last Friday was Pixie's first birthday (yes.. it has taken me a week to find the time to write this post). To celebrate we thought it would be nice to reflect on some of the stats from the year and give out a few freebies as well.

The stats

In one year we have had (roughly):

85,000 site visitors.
250,000 page views.
Our busiest day was September 12th 2008 with 3200 visits.
14,500 Downloads.
300 download per week.
44 downloads per day.

All statistics were taken from Google Analytics (so they may not be completely accurate) and do not include visits to the demo site. What these stats highlight to me is that we need to be turning more visitors into users. How can we do that?

The freebies

By giving away more freebies! As a little gift to all those who use Pixie we have uploaded a couple of new files. The first is a theme called "Letters from Japan". A theme inspired by childhood pen-pal letters from Japan by toggle. It is designed to complement the Letters from India theme that we released back in December.

Our second freebie is a useful tool we have been using for some time which allows you to automate your database backups. You will need to have access to Cron (or something similar) on your server for this to work. Simply upload the cron.php file to the route of your website and get Cron to visit it once a day. This will automate your database backups in case you forget to do it manually.

Enjoy!

p.s. We have not got around to deploying the new Pixie showcase module, it is on the to-do list and will hopefully be ready soon. The showcase will feature the best Pixie sites from around the web.

Tagged: pixie, themes, downloads