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Silverstripe 3.0 Alpha

CMS Design Resource — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:47:26 +0000

Silverstripe announced their alpha version of their 3.0 release. While its not finished yet, it starts to show off where they want to be in the future and what they are aiming for. One of the biggest changes is the separation between their CMS and Framework. Along with this is a new layout and some simplification of the backend. You can try it out by download it here.

Squarespace 6 Beta

CMS Design Resource — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:40:24 +0000

The Squarespace 6 beta is opening up and from the preview video it looks to be a pretty impressive offering for photographers and other creatives. Lots of drag and drop goodness and click-to-edit functionality. Beware, pretty soon your clients will expect this level of functionality in their websites!

Open Source CMS Market Share

CMS Design Resource — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:26:41 +0000

A digital agency named Water and Stone has put together a research report about the popularity and usage of varying open source content management systems. Its an interesting quick read, but if you just want the cliffs notes, then here’s their summary:

The Big Three — WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal — remain firmly in command of the market.

• WordPress has taken the lead in brand strength after a strong growth year.

• The gap continues to narrow between .NET market leader DotNetNuke and contender Umbraco. This continues the trend observed in the 2009 Report.

• Liferay leads the Java WCM market, though Alfresco is not far behind and in fact leads in several metrics.

• Up and coming systems to watch include: Concrete5 and Umbraco.

• Systems possibly at risk include: Textpattern and Xoops.

The Big Three — WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal — remain firmly in command of the market.
WordPress has taken the lead in brand strength after a strong growth year.
The gap continues to narrow between .NET market leader DotNetNuke and contender Umbraco. This continues the trend observed in the 2009 Report.
Liferay leads the Java WCM market, though Alfresco is not far behind and in fact leads in several metrics.
Up and coming systems to watch include: Concrete5 and Umbraco.
Systems possibly at risk include: Textpattern and Xoops.

Joomla 1.6 Arrives

CMS Design Resource — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:30:34 +0000

The new version of Joomla has finally arrived. Version 1.6. While it has been in beta for a long time, this is the final release that is ready for the public. This release brings better access controls, a user-defined category structure, easier installation, extended language support, and hundreds of other features. Check out the newest improvements today.

Drupal 7 Out

CMS Design Resource — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:35:31 +0000

Big news in the CMS world today: Finally, Drupal 7 has been released. After many alphas and betas, it has been publicly released. As the video states, thousands of contributors have worked for over 3 years to bring this to us. This release brings us many new things including a whole new user interface that streamlines many repetitive tasks, improved database support for all different kinds of databases, better control over theming, custom fields API, and a fancy new image/file handler that can be used anywhere throughout the interface. If you haven’t already, check out the download, installation guide, and then party.

EE Forecast

CMS Design Resource — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:14:09 +0000

If you’re really into ExpressionEngine and want to know that EllisLab is up to next, then you’ll want to put this one in your bookmarks: The EE Forecast. The page tells what priorities the team members are working on next so you can get a snapshot of what features and functionality will be fixed or added in the next release.

Big Squarespace Fall Update

CMS Design Resource — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:07:02 +0000

Squarespace has been growing a lot lately and is working on adding some nice features to their CMS. These include an iPad App, Geolocation widgets, Autosaving, and media management improvements. These should be available soon.

Open Source Awards 2010

CMS Design Resource — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:13:41 +0000

Packt has announced their yearly Open Source Awards, awarding CMS Made Simple the winner of Open Source CMS, with Silverstripe and MODx trailing close behind. That said, they separated Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla into another category called “Hall of Fame CMS” which means they won all of the other years. As a result of a tie between Drupal and WordPress, an extra independent judge was brought in for a decisive vote. Here are the results.

Open Source CMS
Winner: CMS Made Simple
1st Runner up: SilverStripe
2nd Runner up: MODx

Hall of Fame CMS
Winner: WordPress
1st Runner up: Drupal
2nd Runner up: Joomla!

Most Promising Open Source Project
Winner: Pimcore
1st Runner up: TomatoCMS
2nd Runner up: BuddyPress

Textpattern 4.3.0 Released

CMS Design Resource — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:04:16 +0000

This release changes some of the old functionality in order to prepare the way for Textpattern 5, as well as adds a bit of new functionality like image tag support, better feeds, and built in language packs for plugins.

Drupal 7 Beta 3

CMS Design Resource — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:00:33 +0000

Yep, maybe someday we might reach a release candidate status with Drupal 7, but don’t get your hopes up too soon because right now they’re only releasing another beta. That said, it shouldn’t be too long before as release candidate and then a major release for this major CMS.

If you haven’t been back in awhile, you may also want to check out the redesigned Drupal.org, which features a slick, simpler design and a giant support community.