What to Consider When Designing Your New Website

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An active online presence is a necessity for most every company, but that presence must also be complimented with an eye-catching and user-friendly design. When you’ve decided that it’s time to give your website a face-lift, take a step back and answer a few questions before approaching web design firms.

You must first determine why you’ve chosen to redesign your website.  Is the design outdated?  Is it uninviting? Is it packed with Flash® (that hinders the viewing experience on an iPhone)? Would you like it to be more search engine friendly?

Create a Website and Manage Flash Contents with Mosite

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I want to focus the attention of readers on this Flash CMS web 2.0 , the only one with a true Timeline to handle Animations directly Online . Read this article published on goarticles.

This is the direct link to this Flash CMS, Mosite: http://www.mosite.org and there is also a video on youtube that show how it works.

Oshyn, Inc. Shows Best Practices for Deploying Multilingual Websites with Drupal

While there are several options for Multilingual management of Drupal installations, selecting the “right” method requires a keen understanding of Drupal limitations and benefits.  

Los Angeles, CA – In this free white paper, Drupal Multilingual Website, Oshyn evaluates and recommends several methods of using Drupal Open Source CMS to manage multilingual websites. Oshyn has integrated many commercial and Open Source CMS/WCM solutions within large enterprise environments and has helped clients select CMS/WCM solutions based on the specific requirements of each client such as: understanding the capabilities required for content re-use, integration, personalization, ecommerce, workflows, online marketing, multilingual content, multi-device content, affiliate content sharing and future development plans.

Authored by Oshyn’s Cesar Salazar, this free white paper draws from Oshyn’s extensive experience in Content Management Systems development and integration. Specifically this Drupal Open Source CMS white paper explores: 

  •  Management of Websites with multiple languages
  •  Management of a Website with one language different than the default English
  •  Management of multiple languages in one website
  •  Combining management of multiple websites and multiple languages
  •  Managing different languages with different databases
  •  Managing different languages with one database

The “Drupal Multilingual Website” white paper can be downloaded for free at:http://www.oshyn.com/landingpages/drupal-multilingual

My Dream: International Content Management System

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Search Engine Land: Content management systems (CMS) have evolved over the last decade to become core tools of the SEO trade—or at least platforms on which much SEO work must be based. Sadly, this isn’t so true in the international space, particularly when different languages are involved. Yet the choice of a content management system or approach is often a key step to achieving success.

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SitePress - a new mega plugin for WordPress as CMS

WordPress is the de-facto standard blogging engine and is often used to build full websites. Its power lies in its simplicity, allowing authors to start building their websites in minutes. However, WordPress is still missing some basic features keeping it from becoming a full fledged CMS. SitePress tries to close that gap.

SitePress is an ambitious mega-plugin for WordPress. It intends to turn WP into a reasonably featured content management system. SitePress contributes exactly where WordPress is short:

  • Multilingual content management
  • Site-wide navigational elements
  • Robust internal links

SitePress isn't going to turn WordPress into a web application frameworks. You're still not going to build your next CRM with it. However, for building complex websites which are comprised mainly of pages and posts, WordPress with SitePress work just fine. 

Multilingual support for WordPress

Most of SitePress' strengths come its roots. Its design is inspired by Drupal's architecture, with the jewel crown being its multilingual support. SitePress' Multilingual support boasts similar functionality as Drupal's i18n, but without any of its complexity.

SitePress language selection

A single screen lets users configure a fully functional multilingual system. It allows selecting active languages for the website, language negotiation (language directories or independent language domains) and theme localization. A language switcher can also be added to the theme, as a widget.

Just like Drupal's i18n module, SitePress keeps different languages in different pages and posts. Each page has its own language and different related pages are linked together via "translation groups".

PowerCMS 1.1 Hanau

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For some months ago i started with this project that based on Cmsmadesimple.

CMSMS  has some disadvantages - low speed , needs much memory , a very bad module api.

Now i have made several Versions of PowerCMS and changed many from the original.

And now PowerCMS is gone his own way.

The default language is german.

  • A very memory efficient CMS, that works without problems on Web server with 8MB memory limit - typically less than 1 mb needed in the frontend
  • A very fast CMS with very small generation times - the values are 0.00075507164001465 ... 0.04244296073913 seconds on shared Webservers
  • Will run from PHP 4.3.1, including PHP 5.xx versions - no need of PHP 5

Multilingual support continues to improve in open source CMS

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Not long ago, Development Seed posted a fantastic comparison of multilingual handling between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6.

Many people who’ve heard the buzz about multilingual features making it into Drupal core have asked me if they should go ahead with their multilingual projects on Drupal 5 or push them back to wait for Drupal 6 to be released. Of course there are many factors to consider, but with multilingual websites there’s no doubt that two big factors are workflow and contributed modules.

Jose just pulled together an excellent comparison chart that should help make that decision easier. The chart below compares the multilingual support with Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.

One of the criticisms of many open source CMS is that they're not fully "international", especially for those languages that are written/read from right to left. Many projects, are quickly addressing the critics by placing significant focus on improving the multilingualism in their CMS. For example, not only will Drupal 6 (still under development) have improved multilingual support but so will Joomla 1.5 (nearing release candidate stage).

While many of these projects have had some to support multilingual features through third-party contributed modules / plugins / extensions it's only recently that the core development teams for these projects have really began addressing the need. With so much focus this year on enterprise content management systems, perhaps 2008 will be known as the year of the international content management system? Yes, multilingual support brought to you by an open source project near you.