Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, UK. A new book focusing on the Joomla! Content Management System is now available for immediate delivery.
The book, entitled ‘Building a website using a CMS in 90 minutes’ is published through Management Books 2000 Ltd is aimed at individuals and companies that are new to CMS and need help and advice understanding the benefits of a CMS (over a static HTML site, perhaps currently designed in-house) and how to implement such a system.
It discusses the process of evaluating the best CMS for your needs and then takes you through installing and customising it to suit your needs. While the book discusses various systems in the initial chapters, such as XOOP, PHP-Nuke etc, it quickly focuses on Jooma!, taking the user through all of the processes required to build a fully functional, feature-rich site.
The often-missed subject of backing up your site is also covered in-depth. For those looking to migrate an existing static HTML site there are two chapters dedicated to installing existing available templates or designing your own. Finally, the appendices list useful information such as style sheets and a quick installation and setup guide.
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.
SilkRoad technology, inc., the leading provider of Web-based talent management solutions, announced today that The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society has adopted Eprise, SilkRoad’s web content management solution.
The IEEE Communications Society is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of communications technology. The non-profit organization needed a content management solution that would be simple and fast, and would allow them to seamlessly create websites for the organization’s many conferences. The IEEE Communications Society ultimately selected Eprise for its ease-of-use and affordability.
“The IEEE Communication Society prides itself on technological excellence and Eprise really delivers on all of our web content management needs,” said Joel Basco, IT Project Manager. “Our members are spread across the globe, so it is essential that we have a tool like Eprise to connect with each other effectively and efficiently.”
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.
Daisy going strong: Outerthought ships version 1.5 of its flagship open source CMS
Keeping to its twice-a-year release schedule, Outerthought announces today the immediate availability of a new major Daisy release. Daisy is a feature-rich and solid open source CMS, which combines the ease of use of a WYSIWYG Wiki-like editing environment with solid repository back-end functionalities. It is the only open source CMS that also offers production-quality book generation, and is in use at major corporations around the globe.
The 1.5 release marks major progress for Daisy's product maturity, with an improved deployment scheme separating user data and customization files from the core product assembly. This will make future upgrades especially trouble-free, and opens up possibilities for install automation and drop-in add-on functionality. Adding to that, our messaging subsystem has been overhauled to use the popular ActiveMQ library, significantly reducing the deployment footprint.
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