OpenEdit Digital Asset Management with integrated Web Content

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Submitted by jril on

OpenEdit is pleased to announce the latest release of its open source digital asset management solution, integrated with web content management, OpenEdit DAM version 5.2014. OpenEdit DAM can be downloaded from the OpenEdit DAM website.

Version 5.2014 offer improvements and new features to the already fully functioning OpenEdit Digital Asset Management. The Product Details page has been completely upgraded since our last release and now includes:

Related Products -  Metadata associated with an original asset is now attached to the related version. When editing the original asset, you now have the option of updating all of the related assets as well. All related products can now be viewed from the product details page.

Product versioning - When uploading an updated asset OpenEdit will track all previous versions of the image.

Improved Media Previews: We have updated our video and audio embedded previews to better support more browsers and file types. This area will continue to see improvement in the coming weeks.

Improved Security: Closed a vulnerability that allowed for Cross-Site-Scripting attacks.

The Content in 1996

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Submitted by Bryan on

Gadgetopia pointed their readers to a site with a number of screen captures for how the Internet looked like in 1996. Almost a year ago, I posted a screen capture of the first site I did in that era. I'm somewhat pleased that the appearance of my site was no worse than the sites of well known companies. The author brings up the point that you have to consider the technology back then to why sites looked the way they did.

In their defense, the technology was different in
1996. Although Internet Explorer 3.0 could run Java applets and
inline media, Netscape Navigator could not, and in any case nobody
felt comfortable doing anything more complicated than making a few
animated GIFs.

Most people who were quite active on the Internet in the 1990's shouldn't be surprised with the way the Internet looked back then. I can easily recall the controversy of whether to design sites for 640x480 or 800x600 screens. We were simply limited in how we designed our sites by the technology we were using. However, what was our excuse for not providing better content than what we did?

Wayback challenge: When was your first site?

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Submitted by Bryan on

While most bloggers are using the new year to look ahead, I am not quite ready to make promises to the year of 2007. In fact, I am more inclined to looking at the past thanks to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

I'd like to challenge anyone who has designed a web page to find the oldest site in the archive that they authored and post the Wayback Machine link in the comment section of this post. There are no prizes being awarded in this "contest" but I promise you can have some space for bragging rights. Feel free to include any history on the page that you feel is necessary to tell your story.

The archive contains archived web pages from 1996 to the near present. The oldest web pages I could find that I authored was from 1997 for the National Weather Service's forecast office in Sioux Falls, SD.

NWS Sioux Falls circa 1997

The above site actually originated in March 1996, but this 1997 image is the earliest I could find in the archive. Not very impressive is it? However, you have to remember that I was authoring with HTML 1.x and worried that Netscape's introduction of the blink element was pushing the envelope further than I wanted to go.