Packt is pleased to announce the release of WordPress Themes Design, which is a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book will be invaluable to WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme.

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

eZ is proud to announce the third book from the eZ Press: eZ Publish Advanced Content Management. This book is compatible with eZ Publish 4.0. It was written to address the needs of content managers and webmasters, providing a comprehensive advanced guide to managing content with eZ Publish. It builds upon concepts from the eZ Publish Content Management Basics book. Both books were written by Bergfrid Marie Skaara, who used her experience with eZ Publish training and project development to produce this highly practical set.

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Baseline: Here are a few key things to think about when it comes to Web site design and management in terms of search results, audience and growth.

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Packt is pleased to announce the release of its new book DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial which will help users to create and design skins for their websites. Written by Darren Neese, this book is a practical guide to the fundamentals of skinning.

DotNetNuke is an open-source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. The application's content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and websites.

SitePoint: Once a community has reached a certain level of activity, your community staff -- your moderators -- play a vital role in the continued success of the operation.

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Deane Barker discusses the "third type" of page in Web content management.  This page type doesn't quite fit in with the categories of free-form or structured.  He offers two models that addresses the need for something in the middle.

I joined the new Content Wrangler Community with hopes of improving my social networking with other content management professionals. Scott Abel discusses his goals for the community on his blog.

The Content Wrangler Community is the new social network dedicated to people who value content as a business asset, worthy of being effectively managed. This is the place where technical communicators, medical and science writers, marketing pros, online community managers, document engineers, information architects, localization and translation pros, taxonomists, bloggers, documentation and training managers, and content creators of all types hang out. It’s much more than a blog. It’s a place to join your peers, to share, to collaborate, to contribute, to find the information you need.

Hopefully this community will take-off in a beneficial way as I've seen similar online communities not become any more than a "mailing list" of "friends" promoting their own agenda.

Alfresco Software today announced the winners of its 2007 Annual Content Excellence Awards. The debut year for the awards program recognizes its top partners and contributors in the categories of Partner of the Year, Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year, Web Content Management Implementation of the Year, and Contributor of the Year, in Europe and North America.

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