Alexandria, VA - June 30, 2008- Bitrix, Inc. is happy to announce the newest release of the world class CMS Bitrix Site Manager 7.0. Bitrix Site Manager is a Web Content Management System (CMS) that provides cost-effective solutions that meet the full promise of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems. CMS Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 is a multilingual platform that is simple for content owners to use and enables developers to build advanced Web sites that are stable and secure.

"Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 unleashes the full promise of CMS for a world-wide audience," said Sergey Rizhikov, CEO of Bitrix, Inc. "We are especially excited by the UTF-8 support. It is a great new feature allowing multilingual Internet projects. Our partners who work in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese among others will do well by offering this functionality in their local markets.

Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 also unleashes the full promise of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems for worldwide audiences by empowering content owners to access well-designed site wizards and templates, add content on the fly, upload graphic images, build blogs, and collaborate. The ability to add new content is critical to boost search engine rankings and build conversations with web audiences.

Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 offers a host of new capabilities.

 

Nice improvements in the user interface navigating through Blocks administration. The drag and drop and "auto-placement" of the blocks takes some getting used to...but in the long run it's a time-saver. Quite a bit of perfromance improvement in the AJAX coding between Drupal 6 RC2 and Drupal 6 RC3.

As we mentioned more than a month ago, Firefox 3 is expected to sport a new look. Some of the more popular online magazines are starting to take notice and helping to fan some excitement on the new look. On a blog at Wired a Firefox 3 related post can be found, Catch a Glimpse of Firefox 3's Sleek, Sexy New Digs.

Some of the changes planned for the final release of Firefox 3
include a complete visual makeover with platform-specific skins
designed to integrate the look of Firefox into your OS of choice.

Alex Faaborg, one the interface designers for Firefox, has been
posting mock-ups and soliciting feedback from the community for some
time (see our previous coverage) and he’s back with a series of wireframe sketches that show some of the progress in the interface redesign.

The blog post focuses on the visuals for the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, but also directs users to an Ars Technica article for those interested in Linux. The article of interest is A first look at the Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux.

"Yahoo's Rasmus Lerdorf talks about why he has stopped "hating" front-end browser applications."

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"So, I want a true, native, API-level content management system. Where does such a thing exist? Start naming names."

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"Consistency can be regarded as “boring”, but it does have an advantage. It’s becomes familiar quickly, and has less of a learning curve. It also makes applications seem more intuitive since UI elements are well understood. Apple wants this to encourage people to make the jump. Now more than ever (iPod effect)."

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"While personalization is important, and dashboards are viable options, it's time to move forward. There's more to a website than the initial page a user sees, so why is this page the only page that is personalized? The evolution of web publishing and content management systems now brings personalization to an entirely new level, where feature rich sites are able to interact with the user throughout the entire user experience beyond the landing page."

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"For Serendipity, only the frontend (what the visitors see) could be subject to Smarty-Templating. One reason for not utilizing these features in the backend was to maintain stability, ease of change for core developers and reduce migration woes so that the Admin Backend would always be accessible.

What we have now added to the Serendipity 1.2 snapshots (that will soon become public beta and a final release in late Summer) is functionality that allows you to template the backend layout as well as the 'New/Edit Entry' screen."

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