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.
Bitrix, Inc. [http://www.bitrixsoft.com/sitemanager/], the leading developer of content management system software for managing Web projects, announced that it has signed an agreement to become the certified partner of MySQL AB, the developer of the world's most popular open source database. This partnership will address the needs of enterprise content management system users and administrators.
Bitrix Site Manager is a comprehensive, content management suite for maintaining Web sites. This Web content management product provides stable functionality and security, as well as promoting the cost-effective growth of Internet projects. Bitrix Site Manager, which is delivered in source code, was developed in PHP and can run on any UNIX or Windows platforms. MySQL, Oracle, Oracle XE, MSSQL or MSSQL Express can be used as a database back end.
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.
Wordpress has released it’s next stage software platform for bloggers, Wordpress 2.1 - named Ella.
Improvements to the software include the ability to make it work better as a Content Management System (CMS). According to Matt Mullenweg, lead coder at Wordpress, the use of SQL queries has also been extensively revisited to make Wordpress more efficient.
Additional improvements include over 550 bug fixes.
Wordpress has fast become the most popular blogging platform on the internet. Not only is it free, but it also offers a range of useful features, and a very extensive developer support community, meaning that there are an extended range of additional options available for users of the software.
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.
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