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A new version of e107 has been released, e107 0.7.11. There is also a hint that it's time to think about version 0.8! If you haven't tried e107 for a while, I encourage you to do so!
During my tenure as a judge in 2007 for Packt Publishing, I surprisingly ranked e107 as number two in the Overall Winner category. Given the final outcome, the other judges didn't agree with me...but I stand by my position. e107 is an open source content management system worthy of your consideration.
New year ... new e107 version - The e107 team is proud to present the latest release of e107, version 0.7.11.
Packt Publishing announced that Drupal has won their Overall 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award.
After three intense months of voting, Packt Publishing can today announce that Drupal has won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award. With 18,000 votes on Packt’s website, coupled with the expert opinions from a panel of judges, Drupal succeeds Joomla! as the overall winner and receives a cheque for $5,000.
Joomla!, last year's award winner, placed second this year and was awarded $3,000. CMS Made Simple collected $2,000 with a placement in the number three spot. This year, Packt awarded open source CMS projects a total of $20,000 in prize money in five different categories.
The announcement by Packt quotes Jeff Eaton, a core developer speaking on behalf of Drupal, as saying, "We've worked hard to make Drupal as flexible, as scalable, and as accessible as possible. It's a great week for all of Open Source; the winners in every category have shown that OSS can produce powerful solutions for a wide range of needs." The announcement by Packt also reaffirms Jeff's statement that all the projects that made it as finalists should be congratulated.
By golly, Joomla has been awarded as the Best PHP Open Soure CMS in Packt Publishing's 2007 awards.
Joomla! is today revealed as the Award's third category winner, claiming Best Open Source PHP Content Management System. Last year's overall winner came out on top ahead of Drupal in second and e107 in third place and receives $2,000.
Joomla! was selected as the winner in the Best PHP category due to "its good front-end for administrators and end-users, which gives users a simple and traditional company website straight out of the box".
Now here is the interesting and confusing part, just because Joomla has won the Best PHP Open Souce does not mean they'll be winning the Overall Winner category. How can this be if the same five open source CMS (CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, Joomla, and PHP-Fusion) that were selected as finalists in the Best PHP are also in the Overall Winner Category? Well my friends, each category has a different panel of judges that may approach CMS applications with a different perspective.
You'll note that all the judges on the Best PHP panel come from a PHP-centric background. However, the judges in the Overall Winner panel are less language specific and perhaps takes a more well-rounded information system approach to content management systems. In other words, CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, and PHP-Fusion could easily be announced on Friday as the winner in the Overall category. Then again, Joomla! seems to have the lucky magic when it comes to these type of competitions.
I found this on one of the Joomla blogs, Croatian community site converts from e107.
The biggest Croatian community site outside of Croatia converts to Joomla. Croworld.ca has been around for 3 years, although just recently went through a e107 -> joomla conversion. We support the Croatian community outside of Croatia by trying to keep everyone in tune with what is going on in the community. http://www.croworld.ca
So why am I posting this here at my site? Could it be that I want to rub it into the faces of e107 users that they lost another site to Joomla? Absolutely not! While croworld.ca is designed well with Joomla, it's actually the content that I'm more interested than the CMS this time around.
There is only one week left to vote for the CMS finalists in Packt Publishing's Open Source Content Management System Award. If you haven't voted for what you think is the best open source CMS, I would encourage you to vote. In my opinion, you should vote even in those categories where your favorite CMS may not have made it through the public nomination process. Remember, not everyone is that sold on open source content management systems. In other words this award, and those like it, is a chance to help newcomers find the best of the best in open source CMS.
The voting results should really be very interesting this year with five finalists to choose from in each of the five categories. The five categories in the Packt award are Most Promising, Best PHP CMS, Best Other (Non-PHP) CMS, Best Social Networking CMS, and Overall Winner. The five finalists in the Overall category include CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, Joomla!, and PHP-Fusion.
Since I'm needing some time to figure out how best to use the Drupal contributed Advertisement module, I've decided to promote via banners each of the five CMS finalists in the Overall CMS Winner category.
Did you hear the reports about all that money to be made from online advertisements? In 2006 alone, Internet ad revenue was estimated at $16.8 billion USD. You have also likely heard of bloggers making thousands of dollars in just a short amount of time through online ads. If you believe this is another post about making money from online ads or how to optimize your site for the search engines, you are going to be disappointed. I'm not here to tell you how to make money online but when you shouldn't be making money from advertisement on your site.
When I originally placed ads on my site about a year and a half ago, I actually didn't do it for the money but to give free advice. Over the years I've had friends, relatives, and even a few clients that asked whether it was worth placing ads on their site. I honestly did not know the answer to that question and decided it was time to try things out for myself. How much money could the typical site make through online ads?
In early 2006, I placed online ads from various "advertisement" services on two of my former sites, Like that Idea and the WebCMS Forum. By the second half of the year I also placed advertisements here at CMS Report. While my first two sites are low traffic sites, CMSReport.com has gained popularity and according to Alexa is currently ranked in the top 100,000 Internet sites. Nevertheless, none of these sites are a Yahoo! or YouTube but I think they could be considered as typical sites in terms of visitors and content for most bloggers and small businesses.
I've finally found the time to package up a new release. It's probably long overdue based on the number of fixes that are in this release, so here it is...finally!There is no exaggeration in describing the list of fixes as being huge. Take a look at the changelog and see for yourself. Somebody has been busy! Downloads of e107 are available at SourceForge.
This release is a bugfix release only (as will all of the 0.7.x future releases). It contains a huge list of fixes.
Wyatt Barnett in his Sitepoint article, "I've Never Met a Boxed CMS I Like" makes some very valid points about content management systems straight out of the box. Take note that he isn't just talking about commercial products but also open source systems. His first complaint about "boxed" CMS:
The first issue is that the very nature of a CMS is not easily boxable, without creating an application that tries to do everything for everyone and fails at doing most things particularly well. The tasks required for content management are generic, but every organization has a far different focus when it comes to how that content should be managed and how it thinks about that content. I have lost days of meetings trying to help subject matter experts understand that an article, according to this system, is really a page. Trying to make a generic application to handle this for all comers is a very, very tricky prospect.
Sadly, his post doesn't really offer a solution. I assume building your own CMS is the only alternative to the boxed version. But I have to ask, who really has the time? I think there are some obvious reasons you see so many capable software developers are using open source software such as Wordpress, TYPO3, e107, Alfresco, and Drupal for their Web presence.
The folks over at e107.org have released e107 version 0.7.6. Don't let the numbers fool you, this is the first new release of e107 in half a year. This new version offers some new features, but for the most part the release fixes security vulnerabilities, stability issues and a number of bugs.
Developers and users of five content management systems (CMS) have been anxiously waiting for Packt Publishing to announce the winner of their Packt Open Source CMS Award. Packt Publishing is expected to announce on Tuesday, November 14th, the top three CMS along with the winner.
The winning CMS will get US $5,000, the second will get US $3,000 and the third placed finalist will get US $2,000.
As I mentioned a couple months ago, the top five CMS were nominated by the public are all that remain eligible for the award. Those five CMS include:
I would expect that Packt Publishing will make announcement of the winner on their Open Source CMS Award page. Until then, I'll go out on a limb with my own prediction. I predict that Drupal, Joomla, and Plone will be listed by Packt's judges as the top three CMS for 2006. Whether I'm correct or not, I will likely comment on the outcome of the award here on my own blog.
As you can tell from the screenshot below, I am using a release candidate of Mozilla's Firefox 2 while viewing and editing content in my Drupal site. If you look closely at the image or click on the image to enlarge it, you will also see that I don't always focus my browsing on Drupal. Take a look at the tabs and you'll see me taking a look at a number of other open source projects (such as Joomla and e107). I have been known to have 20 tabs open referencing just as many different portals, forums, and blog applications as I can find. What can I say, I'm obsessed with Web content management systems (CMS).
I have been using Firefox 2 since last May so my time spent with the new browser is even a couple months before the beta version was released. I can't say my initial impressions of Firefox 2 were all that positive. It wasn't the expected bugs in the development releases that squelched my enthusiasm for the yet to be released browser. No it was my original opinion that Mozilla couldn't possibly improve on Firefox 1.x that kept me from acknowledging Firefox 2 as a significant release. Over the past few months I found that Firefox 2 is a browser that has changed my browsing style and it will likely do the same for you.
For example, I earlier mentioned the tabs in Firefox because there are a number of improvements to excite those that prefer tabbed browsing. You of course can still "drag and drop" the tabs in the browser to sort them in an order you prefer. But there are a number of additional features to the tabs that seem to make the browsing experience in Firefox 2 more efficient than earlier releases. Some of those tabbed browsing features include:
Packt Publishing announced the top five content management systems (CMS) nominated for their Open Source Content Management System Award. The top CMS eligible for the award in alphabetical order (not in order by most nominations) are:
The names of the top five public nominations will now be reviewed and judged by three industrial leaders and "a final fourth vote will come from the results of a public vote on www.PacktPub.com." The first place winner will be awarded $5000, the second place winner will get $3000 and third place winner will receive $2000. The judges on the panel include Scott Goodwin from the Open Source Collective, Lenz Grimmer from MySQL, and Nathan Gervais, Eclipse Foundation.
The winners are expected to be announced by Packt on November 14, 2006. For additional information you can visit Packt's award page at: http://www.packtpub.com/award .
Correction: Modified my original post. Apparently, there are four judges to vote in the finals. If I'm reading the rules correctly, the four judges include not only the three industry leaders but also another vote by the public. If this is true and there are four judges...what happens if there is a tie?
"I'm pleased to announce a large update to the plugin 'content management' has been committed to cvs.There is an update button when you go to the admin area, which does NOT change your database structure, but does change some preferences (storage wise) and adds some new preferences that come with this update."
New version available - 0.7.5 -
"The newest release of e107 is now available for your enjoyment. This version includes many bugfixes and a few security related fixes. You are stongly encouraged to update to the latest version.These new release files were created a bit differently than in the past, I have written a script to automate the entire process now and this is the first run of it."
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