How do you define sites in Dreamweaver for creating and Drupal theme with Themegine? Dreamweaver is a rich HTML and CSS editor. By and far this software has been in the front position among web authoring softwares. In it's latest versions CS4 and CS5 Adobe introduced new features that makes CMS themes. Key features like Related file, Live view, CSS inspect and CSS enable/disable are true time savers a cool experience for CMS theme developers.
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Konductor releases extension on the Adobe Dreamweaver Exchange
There have been a number of pretty cool things happening at Konductor recently:
- Web Designer Mag published a really good tutorial and review of Konductor, calling it "The perfect platform for designers to create, and non-designers to edit." Check out Konductor's press page to read what they had to say.
- The Konductor Extension for Dreamweaver was recently released on the Adobe Dreamweaver Exchange, and—in addition to being the featured extension—it just exceeded 20,000 downloads!
- New content has been published on the blog showing how easy it is to mash up Konductor and Flickr to create a slick gallery on your website, plus a new video has been posted on YouTube showing the Firefox website being cut on to the system.
Check out the website if you would like some more information. If you want to keep track of updates or ask a quick question, you may want to follow Konductor on twitter.
CMS Report's September Sponsors
Our sponsors are simply an amazing group of companies. Without their financial support the ability and incentive for hosting this site would be much less. If you like what you see at CMSReport.com, we encourage you to also pay a visit to our sponsors' websites. CMS Report is selective on who we allow to sponsor us and we've actually denied some very lucrative offers because we felt their products just weren't for our visitors. The banner ads you see from our sponsors represent products we could see ourselves utilizing.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site either through Google's ad services or through BuySellAds. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills of our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support CMSReport.com.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
JoomlaShack - JoomlaShack offers Joomla! templates and custom services. If you are looking for a reliable quality template at an affordable price, JoomlaShack is the right place to visit.
CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.
etonDigital - etonDigital crafts custom social networks for Business and Alumni Communities, Members, Friends, Associations or any other social/professional networking group.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
pTools - pTools Enterprise Web Content Management Software delivers powerful intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for critical business initiatives.
Sitecore - The Sitecore CMS allows you to create rich interactive websites, easily. It scales to meet virtually any need.
Support the sponsors that support CMS Report
Our sponsors are simply an amazing group. Without their financial support the ability and incentive for hosting this site would be much less. If you like what you read at CMSReport.com, we encourage you to also pay a visit to the websites of our sponsors. We are actually a little bit choosy on the sponsors we allow on this site by making sure they provide content management related services and products that we ourselves would be interested in too.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site either through Google's ad services or through BuySellAds. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support CMSReport.com.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
JoomlaShack - JoomlaShack offers Joomla! templates and custom services. If you are looking for a reliable quality template at an affordable price, JoomlaShack is the right place to visit.
Interspire - Interspire Website Publisher is a content management system which makes it easy for non-technical users to create and maintain fully functional websites. Over 5,000 customers are using our software to power their websites and applications.
CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
Microsoft - Microsoft has been advertising their enterprise search capabilities as well as their new version of Internet Explorer, IE8.
pTools - pTools Enterprise Web Content Management Software delivers powerful intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for critical business initiatives.
Thank you to CMS Report's June Sponsors
Sponsorship is a big thing here at CMS Report. Sponsorship helps pay the bills to the host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support CMSReport.com. Sponsorship also does one more important thing. Without sponsorship providing a little extra money in Bryan's pockets, he would have a hard time justifying the amount of time he spends away from his wife and son to support this blog. So if you become a sponsor at CMS Report, you're not only helping to fund a website, you may also be saving a marriage.
CMS Report uses BuySellAds.com to sell banner space to our sponsors. Currently, we're running a summer special with the price of our 300x250 banner space at only $70 per month. This price reflects 30% off our normal asking price.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
Interspire - Interspire Website Publisher is a content management system which makes it easy for non-technical users to create and maintain fully functional websites. Over 5,000 customers are using our software to power their websites and applications.
CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.
HostDone - HostDone Inc. offers affordable hosting without loosing the quality of web hosting service and performance.
Wild Apricot - Wild Apricot has been specifically built to store member records and contact lists and link them to your Website and other software tools to automate and streamline administrative tasks for clubs, associations and communities.
Netidnow - NetIDNow provides all the tools you need to make your own website or an ecommerce store quickly and inexpensively.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Artisteer - Artisteer provides Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes. Design WordPress Blogs, professional Joomla! and Drupal templates, and cool Website designs in minutes
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
Microsoft - Microsoft has been advertising their enterprise search capabilities as well as their new version of Internet Explorer, IE8.
Sponsors at CMS Report for month of May
CMS Report saw a huge increase in sponsorship this past month. In fact, as of this writing, we currently only have a single 125x125 banner space available for anyone wishing to sponsor CMSReport.com. If you're interested in purchasing banner space at this site, please visit BuySellAds.com today to reserve your banner space.
For revenue, we rely on sponsorship and banner advertisement. Our generous sponsors help pay for our servers, software, and additional expenses the comes with hosting CMSReport.com.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
Sitecore - Sitecore provides web content management and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences. Sitecore enables stakeholders to rapidly implement a successful online business strategy, and measure and manage that ongoing website success.
Interspire - Interspire Website Publisher is a content management system which makes it easy for non-technical users to create and maintain fully functional websites. Over 5,000 customers are using our software to power their websites and applications.
Bitrix - Bitrix, Inc. specializes in the development of content management systems and intranet portal solutions for managing web projects and multifunctional information systems on the Internet. Deployed at more than 20,000 customers worldwide, Bitrix products are fast, reliable, easy to use and highly scalable.
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StormWeb - StormWeb is a high-technology web hosting company based in Ontario, Canada.
HostDone - HostDone Inc. offers affordable hosting without loosing the quality of web hosting service and performance.
Wild Apricot - Wild Apricot has been specifically built to store member records and contact lists and link them to your Website and other software tools to automate and streamline administrative tasks for clubs, associations and communities.
Netidnow - NetIDNow provides all the tools you need to make your own website or an ecommerce store quickly and inexpensively.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Artisteer - Artisteer provides Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes. Design WordPress Blogs, professional Joomla! and Drupal templates, and cool Website designs in minutes
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Adobe Flex and IBM WebSphere Portal
IBM developerWorks: "Adobe® Flex takes you to the next level of Web application development with the concept of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), while IBM® WebSphere® Portal provides a composite tooling to build flexible, SOA-based solutions. But how do you get the two of them together? One option is to directly integrate Flex into WebSphere Portal server.
DPCI and MEI to Showcase Dynamic Content Delivery Using K4 and Drupal
Popular solution for Adobe InDesign and InCopy workflows connects to leading open-source Web Content Management System
New York, NY - Apr 23, 2009 - DPCI, a provider of integrated technology solutions for publishing content to Web, print and mobile channels, and Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner and a leading provider of software for the publishing industry, today announced that the two companies will showcase connectivity between the vjoon K4TM Publishing System and Drupal Web content management system. MEI and DPCI will host a webinar demonstrating how K4, the popular workflow solution integrating Adobe® InDesign® and InCopy®, can seamlessly deliver content to Drupal, one of the leading open-source systems for publishing and managing Web site content.
The free webinar, which takes place Wednesday, May 6, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, will illustrate how the K4-Drupal connection facilitates several publishing workflows, including print-to-Web, Web-first and Web-only models. Attendees will learn how to leverage these top technologies to author and organize multi-channel content under one integrated system, with significant time and money savings.
The powerful K4 database provides writers and editors with a managed workflow during the authoring and revision processes. Once content has been edited and approved, DPCI's connector module for K4 imports the data into Drupal, where it is published online, enriched with SEO key terms in the appropriate section of the designated Web site.
"K4 and Drupal connectivity provides a much-needed solution for all publishers: a single system that feeds multiple channels, instantly and effectively," said Dennis McGuire, CEO and president of MEI. "Publishers are seeking out efficient, innovative ways to coordinate content workflows that span print, Web, e-books and other outlets."
New website and updated videos for Konductor CMS
The Konductor team has rolled out their new website, and it is looking quiet slick. They also now have sections that address some of the features that Konductor offers for designers, developers and end users in more detail. You can check it out here: http://www.konductor.net/
Also, there is a bunch of new videos on their YouTube channel, check them out here:
Zooom Productions receives award from Adobe for CMS Whizz!
EMEA Excellence Award goes to Austrian Content Management System
For quite some time, Austrian advertising and communication agency
has been a partner of prestigious software company Adobe with their
in-house, Flash-based content management system Whizz! Every year,
Adobe honors their partners’ expertise and know-how with their highly
sought-after EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) Solutions
Excellence Contest.
From among many submission from Europe and the Middle East, zooom
productions’ CMS Whizz! has been chosen as 2008’s best marketing
contribution submitted in the contest. The content management system
constitutes a state-of-the-art and user-friendly tool to manage and
publish website contents and has been in use since 2005. Renowend
companies like Braun, Red Bull or Atomic as well as international
celebrities such as windsurfing legend Björn Dunkerbeck, racecar driver
Scott Speed or Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard have been successfully
using the CMS for several years.
Whizz! CMS offers users an individual frontend as well as a series
of state-of-the-art features from MMS maintenance to RSS feeds. Due to
its high flexibility, the content management system also allows for
fast and cost-efficient implementation and offers an efficient solution
for Flash portals, event websites, promotion pages and microsites of
all kinds.
Google improving search for Flash sites
I'm not a huge fan of creating sites with Adobe's Flash. I personally find Flash sites difficult to navigate, bookmark, and retrieve worthwhile information. However, I can understand why the more artistic Web designers and site owners out there prefer to use Flash when building a website. But in my mind, one of the biggest drawbacks with Flash is that Google and other search engines have a difficult time reading and indexing Flash sites. Let's face it, if Google can't search your site then it is highly unlikely your customers will find your site in the first few pages displayed by Google no matter which keywords are being used.
Luckily for Flash fans, Google has changed the rules by improving their search capability for Flash sites.
Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.
In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.
So there you have it. I just lost my number one argument against building a site using Flash technology. Web designers and site owners will likely want to read Google's questions and answers pertaining to the improvements with Flash indexing.
