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Textpattern : Simply Elegante!


A flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. Textpattern is both free and open source. Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.

Popular sites that using textpattern as publishing system included on their website, one of them is Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, it is an internationally renowned architecture firm whose projects have included major museums, residences, colleges and public buildings. Its portfolio section details their 35-year history of projects, along with all the beautiful imagery to back it up.

Mosman Library is another one:

Mosman is an historic harbour side area of 8.7 square kilometres just north of the Sydney CBD. Mosman Council administers and services this area for the benefit of residents, businesses and visitors.

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12.Jul.08 Blog, CMS Comment (1)

Drupal 5.8 & Drupal 6.3 Released


Today, I got a Drupal Security Announcement email from the Drupal team. In the email, the team stated that they found multiple vulnerabitilies and weaknesses in Drupal. But neither of these vulnerabilities are readily exploitable.

Some of the vulnerabilities found includes XSS, Cross Site Request Forgeries, Session Fixation and SQL Injection.

These vulnerabilities and weakness affects all 5.x and 6.x Drupal branches, and it’s strongly advice that you update your Drupal powered site to the latest version.

Download Latest Drupal Versions (5.8 and 6.3)

  • If you are running Drupal 5.x then upgrade to Drupal 5.8 (download now)
  • If you are running Drupal 6.x then upgrade to Drupal 6.3 (download now)

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10.Jul.08 Drupal Comment (1)

e107 content management system


e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It’s completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.

e107 takes its origin from code originally used on the LiteStep websites. Jalist who was responsible for the development of those websites, wanted to re-use some of the code from litestep.net and ls2k.org and built a more modular system. This system could then be used as a codebase for other people to create their own community driven websites.

The codebase was maintained solely by Jalist until version 0.612 when a development team was formed. The development team now develops, maintains and builds releases for the e107 system.

In 2006 and 2007, e107 was nominated by the public as one of the five finalists in The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award, the results can be found here packtpub

The current stable release is 0.7.11. This version is an almost total rewrite of the 0.6x tree and includes hundreds (maybe thousands) of added features and bugfixes.

Checkout the demo on:
Demo @ opensourcecms.com

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05.Jul.08 CMS Comments Off

Flash Templates

Templates Factory provides professional template service with a great collection of HTML, Swish and flash templates, in addition to logos and corporate identity. Interesting for websites owners to take their websites to the next level by getting a professional design at accessible prices. Web designers would be also interested to buy templates and customize it for their needs with thousands of ready to use professional templates.

The big collection of templates is really useful for anyone with templates available in almost all business categories from Agriculture, Pets, Architecture, Books … etc. Bloggers for example will be interested into ready to use wordpress templates for their personal or business blogs, with professional design and widgets enabled. For e-commerce also whatever you are using ZenCart, osCommerce or CRELoaded, there is a bunch of great commercial templates to get started.
What I find interesting at Templates Factory that they are providing a collection of 2000+ professional templates at the price of $99 including HTML templates, Flash, PSD templates, Logos … etc. In addition with every single template order there is a bonus worth $295 with 3500 free clipart, 900+ premium font collection, and more. I used similar services for many of my websites, blogs especially, and personally I feel very satisfied with templates quality and support service.

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01.Jul.08 Links, Web Design Comment (1)

Webcam navigation

More and more flash sites offers navigation using webcam. It must be right to say that it does not work very well for practical reasons, and you will feel quite dumb – waving your head right to left… But one thing is sure, we are going to see more and more none-mouse navigation in future, and there are several studies beleieving we are going to a mouse-free world…. And of course – it is quite cool!
This is a nice example of webcam navigation: Publicis & Hal Riney (also FWA awarded)

There is also a lot of campaign sites using the webcam to interact with the user, either taking photos to implement in the campaign or using the webcam in a more interactive way. Using the same principles as for navigation there has been made several cool sites. This is quite simple, but is one of my favourites (bases on a TV ad):  Solo Super

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01.Jul.08 Links, Web Design Comment (1)