CushyCMS Review - Pull up a chair and get Cushy!

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CushyCMS is a relatively new approach to content management that allows you to take any website and add editing functionality and management to it using a very simple and easy to use interface. Today we're going to examine CushyCMS and give you an overall view of how it works as well as rate it.

In order to use Cushy, you do not install anything nor do you require another web host. The way it works is simple, you visit the website CushyCMS.com:

Drupal CMS Founder, Dries Buytaert Interview

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We were very pleased to have a chance to interview Dries Buytaert, founder of the legendary Drupal content management system. He shares his thoughts on its success, future and how it came to be in this intriguing and indepth discussion. We had so many questions, that we are only publishing part one while he works on the second half. Here you go.

Do you use Joomla? Then you need Joomla! Web Security by Packt Publishing.

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Packt Publishing has released their latest Joomla! book entitled Joomla! Web Security. This is a must have for anyone running Joomla! as their primary content management system. Covering such details as how to secure your site, to preventative measures that can be taken. You can purchase from Packt Publishings website.

General CMS News

Zimplit releases browser plugin

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Zimplit released add-on for Mozilla Firefox that allows web user to edit website on the fly. Most website content management systems and blogs require login to admin area to make changes. This process can be really annoying, especially when you need to make small changes or correct mispelling. Zimplit add-on instead installs small button to users web browser toolbar.

Spoonlabs releases Vivvo 4.1

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Spoonlabs is proud to announce the arrival of 4.1 version of its flagship content management platform to its growing community of webmasters, developers, design studios, entrepreneurs and technology partners.

Vivvo CMS is an intuitive content management system atop a powerful programming framework, empowering numerous industry leading online newspapers, magazines, journals, and TV and radio stations. It benefits from a large client-base with several thousand websites developed in over 20 different languages, including right-to-left languages (RTL).

WordPress 2.7 Officially Released

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Finally, the day is upon us. WordPress 2.7 has been released to the public and is now available for immediate download from Wordpress.org. This latest version features some interesting changes such as a redesigned administrative interface and improved drag and drop dashboard layout.

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Microsoft enters the Open-Source Content Management scene with Oxite

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Microsoft has released an early version of Oxite, it's Open-source Content Management App geared towards developers who build large blogs or expansive websites.

A simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and is designed with two main goals:

  • To provide a sample of 'core blog functionality' in a reusable fashion. Blogs are simple and well understood by many developers, but the set of basic functions that a blog needs to implement (trackbacks, rss, comments, etc.) are fairly complex. Hopefully this code helps.

WordPress 2.7 - a facelift of epic proportions

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For those of you who use WordPress as your main publishing platform, whether it be for blogging or a web page of your own.. you will know that each major release showcases amazing new changes. WordPress 2.7 is no different. With some incredibly innovative new features being showcased, will WordPress take over the CMS realm as well?

New Features:

  • Drag and Drop admin interface - Ever wanted to rearrange the dashboard? Now you can.
  • Menus that collapse - Minimize the things you don't need to make more room for the things you do.