Welcome to CMS-Zone! Here you will find all kinds of scripts that will help you build your web site. It doesn't matter if you know a lot or nothing about HTML, CSS or PHP. Everybody can build a site using one of these scripts.
If you're thinking about building a portal, personal web site, discussion board, blog, image gallery, e-commerce site, or any other type of site, you came to the right place. Just use the 'Site Scripts' button, located in the top menu and choose among the hundreds web site scripts available for you.
The scripts are divided in categories. More scripts and categories will be added in time. This site is only in the beginning and there is a lot of content to be added.
Packtpub 2006 Open Source CMS Award Winner Announced
Following a nomination round and eight weeks of voting, Packt are pleased to announce Joomla! as the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award. Joomla! collects a first prize of $5,000 and the title of Packt Open Source CMS Award Winner for 2006.
The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [http://apoorv.info/] on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point. The final result was as follows:
Please note that in deciding the final positions judges were asked to give their top three, with their first choice receiving 3 points, second receiving two points and third place one point. Choosing the top three proved to be a difficult experience for the judges, due to the quality of the finalists and their ability to suit different tasks depending on the objective of the user. "All the CMS’s that made the top 5 are very good" declared Scott Goodwin, representing The Open Source Collective, "and I wouldn't hesitate to use any of them depending on what I'm trying to accomplish."
Web Sites can never be considered complete. Regular content updates are necessary if you hope to benefit from the existence of your web site.
It becomes difficult to keep going back to your designer to get content updates on your web site and if HTML is definitely not your cup of tea then you should consider using a Content Management System also known as CMS in the digital world.
There are two options available to you when you are looking for a Content Management System. One is that you have your web designer create a Content Management System for you. The other option is that you pick up a ready-to-use content management system and make some changes to customize it to your requirements. Most small to medium sized businesses choose to use a ready-to-use Content Management System so that they can keep the cost of development within limits and be ready to use the software within a couple of days.
Joomla! won Best Linux / Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London on the 25th of October.
This is the second year running, the Joomla! team has won the prestigious award. Louis Landry, Johan Janssens and Peter Russell accepted the award from LinuxUser and Developer magazine publisher Maggie Meer.
Johan described the win for Joomla! as "one for the community". "The buzz around the Joomla! project is driven by our huge user base and this translates into what is fast becoming the most popular open source framework going," Johan said.
Flexible software development approaches such as AJAX are making it easier for developers to deliver fast and responsive interactive Web applications. With AJAX, users no longer have to wait while an entire Web page reloads after they make a change. This performance shift allows new data to be called up almost as soon as it is input.
From a response perspective, it's almost like working with a desktop application.
However, the use of AJAX also opens up a number of security challenges for organizations to evaluate as they consider leveraging this robust architecture to enhance their Web services offerings.
ViArt (http://www.viart.com) has recently developed their shopping cart software to enable users to add an RSS feed to each page within its article categories. This will enable users of the ViArt shopping cart to syndicate their news content and deliver this content directly to websites and RSS subscribers the second it is published. Amongst many of its advantages, RSS can improve a websites online visibility, exposure and organic search engine rankings.
On top of its new RSS functionality, the shopping cart's ever-growing content management system (CMS) provides users with all of the tools and features required to customise the content, appearance and feel of their complete online store.
The Companies Office, a unit of the Ministry of Economic Development, has launched a new website. What is special about the new website is that it is based on ‘Open Source’ software. It is only the third government department to do so but the first one of the “top five” Government sites in NZ (by number of visitors).
The product being used by the Ministry is “Plone”, which is one of the most commonly used Open Source systems for managing website content. Igniter was enlisted by the Ministry to evaluate strategic implications of using an open source content management system for the department.
The System i Division of ACOM Solutions Inc. has announced the release of capture engines that enable outbound documents and reports generated by its document management solutions, to be indexed and archived in any content management system, without any manual intervention.
Using the engines, outbound documents generated by its document management solutions EZeDocs/400 and EZPayManager/400 and reports generated by its EZSplitter/400 and EZReporter/400 are automatically indexed and stored in any content management system, including the company’s EZContentManager, ACOM said. The EZContentManager is designed by ACOM to manage documents and files originating from disparate applications and make them accessible to a geographically dispersed staff in a secure, familiar, and intuitive environment, the company added. The System i Software Division is headquartered at Duluth, Georgia.
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Birmingham Black History website (www.birminghamblackhistory.com) has been redeveloped using the Joomla open source content management system.
The website is officially launched on October 1st 2006 in time for Birmingham Black History month. The aim of the new website is to promote Black History throughout the year, and to encourage the public to add content to the website in the form of events, news, articles, images and a discussion forum. Further adult learning resources are also being developed for the site.
The Birmingham Black History website is funded by Renaissance in the Regions.
Shapes and Pages Offers Clients Self Service Content Management
Shapes and Pages now offers clients a web site Content Management System (CMS) that provides significant business advantage over traditional web development.
After extensive research and client feedback Typo3 was selected as the best and strongest product available.
Typo3 is recognized around the world as the leader in CMS offering extensive flexibility and ease of use. Once the basis system is established, the client assigns staff to maintain the various web pages. Changes can be scheduled to start on a specific date or to run for a range of dates.
Mambo, the award-winning Open Source Content Management System, announced the release of version 4.6. This is the first major release in almost two years and provides users a leaner, faster Mambo with greatly improved scalability and stability – and more choice.
Version 4.6 is being released in two configurations: “4.6 Complete” includes the core system as well as an assortment of the most popular extensions and templates. “4.6 Lite” is a minimalist distro comprised of only the core files. No longer a “one size fits all” system, Mambo now offers users unrivalled flexibility to create exactly the CMS they want, using either existing extensions, custom development, or any combination that suits their needs.
If you're thinking about building a 
