To be honest, I've had problems getting excited in the past about XOOPS as a CMS or as an open source community. There just didn't seem to be a whole lot of buzz about this CMS and I was seriously thinking about dropping it from my personal "top 30 list" found to the left under "CMS Focus".
I came across a well written summary of content management applications (especially open source CMS) via a Security Blog over at GLORIAD. The CMS article is a near perfect overview on the state of CMS in 2007. This article is a "must read" in my opinion and it's really too bad I didn't write it first. Can you tell I'm envious?
At the end of the article the author concludes:
I must confess, I really don't fully understand how the Internet ranking systems actually work. Ranking systems such as Google's PageRank and Alexa's Traffic Rankings seem to use a mystery of statistical analysis, algorithms, and a sprinkle of voodoo calculus to come up with the numbers they do. Although most people lack the understanding to how these numbers are derived it is still fun to watch those rankings change from day to day. For example, since the Fall of 2006 I've seen the rankings for CMSReport.com change from 830,790 to around a steady 90,000.
Recently, I read some good posts regarding content management systems (CMS) on a few blogs I visit almost daily. The posts have had me thinking and reflecting in general about CMS. However, I won't talk too much about them so you get a chance to go on and read the articles yourself. The first post comes from OpenSourceCommunity.org and the second post from Gadgetopia.
I list exactly 30 different content management systems at my site under the "CMS Focus" banner here at CMSReport.com. My list does not necessarily include the top CMS out there, but those CMS that I currently find of interest. A few of the applications I currently list have dropped off my radar scope and no longer impress me as a CMS I want to spend my time taking about. So I'm currently looking at replacing a few of the CMS I have listed with other applications.
If you had the power to add a CMS I currently don't have listed, which CMS would that be?
Since most of the Web applications I run these days is on PHP I will fully admit that I don't know much about .Net and Mono applications. However, I can recognize good news when I hear that it. mojoPortal under a new version number can once again support more both the .Net and Mono platforms. For developers and users of mojoPortal, life just got a little simpler.
Version 2.2.2.8 of mojoPortal was released this week and not only introduces the return of Mono support but additional features as well:
A couple weeks ago, I found on my doorstep Hagen Graf's book, Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1. The book was sent to me by the book's publisher, Packt Publishing, in hopes that I would review the book on the Joomla! content management system here at CMSReport.com. While I do not promise to review every book or Internet link that comes my way, I always appreciate the opportunity to do such reviews. In this case, I was eager to review the book since I have lost track of the new features introduced in version 1.5 since Joomla!
A new version of the blogging application Serendipity is now at the beta stage, Serendipity 1.2 Beta 1. The most significant changes in this new version of Serendipity is the authentication and session scheme for easier plug-in interaction. Also support for theming/template authoring has been improved using Smartyfield.
The following is a list of some of the new enhancements according to the Serendipity 1.2-beta1 announcement since Serendipity 1.1:
This is a fantastic article found on ZDNet UK not only about open source content management systems but the issues that traditional publishers are now facing in either competing or adopting with today's Web CMS. The article is written by Mike Barrett and is titled, "CMS evolution, publishing revolution?". The author writes: