Contrexx® is a new powerful Open Source Web Content Management System (WCMS) which will assist you in the creation, administration and maintenance of contents for the internet or intranet. It's a completely web-based system with an easy-to-use WYSIWIG editor and intuitive user interface. Contrexx® is very flexible, by adding modules you can customize the CMS according to your individual demands and it requires no technical knowledge or previous training. Webinstaller included. For more information visit http://www.contrexx.com/.

The download version includes a webinstaller and several new modules like a link directory, Corporate Blog, Podcast, Adressdirectory, Sitemaps, Forum, Image gallery and much more.

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Montreal - The ImpressCMS Project, making a community driven open source content management system, announces the release of ImpressCMS 1.0 ("Janus"). This first stable release is based on the popular PHP/MySQL platform and delivers an extensible open source platform to create interactive and professional websites.

"We are very excited to have this release out and have seen tremendous adoption of our project by many users even before our first release. The goal of this project is to bring people together to design and develop a product that works for them. With the amount of community development and support we have seen so early, we are confident our philosophy is a hit with the community," development spokesperson Marc-André Lanciault explains.

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PureEdit is a new CMS/Framework project launched this month and aims to simplify the development of your website. The CMS is aimed more at developers and currently beta with a growing community on the forums.

PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming. By allowing such uncommon flexibility, PureEdit empowers you to design web sites from the ground up, without forcing you to follow the narrow template rules you'll find elsewhere.

There are some screencasts on their website which shows how it works. PureEdit is written in php with support for MySQL (others coming soon). More information and download from http://www.pureedit.com/.

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Multi-channel software solution for managing campaign and message content

TORONTO, ONTARIO – Prinova Software Inc., a leader in innovative document design, development and delivery solutions, announced today that the much-anticipated messagepoint TM content management software tool was launched on February 4th, 2008.

"After watching marketing and business users in customer after customer struggle to deliver campaign and message content into various delivery channels without viable solutions, we decided to solve this problem ourselves," said Nick Romano, President of Prinova. "We are excited to introduce messagepointTM, our web-based software solution that allows multi-channel marketers to control their messaging across all touchpoints and channels without requiring IT involvement."

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TinyMCE, one of the popular wysiwyg Javascript web-based solution, released version 3.0 final. According to the forum post "All critical bugs and issues have now been resolved in the new 3.x branch of TinyMCE so it was time to release this it as an final/production ready version". The Tinymce 3.0 got its core completely rewritten and optimized, and especially much smaller download size and less files to load by the browser. There is also a new API, so old code and plugins might not be compatible, you can check the new documentation at wiki.moxiecode.com for more details.

More improvements include :

• Improved Safari support.
• New Office 2007 skin.
• Inline dialogs are now cleaned up and used by default.
• More semantically correct output, more flexible and powerful serialization engine.
• On-demand loading of TinyMCE and it's plugins.

More information and download at http://tinymce.moxiecode.com

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I have been using Joomla for many years and definitely impressed by its quality as Open Source CMS solution, its features and the ability to extend it using components and modules. If you are looking to get started with Joomla or for a good reference to explore the capabilities of this great CMS, you should get your hands on "Beginning Joomla from Novice to professional". The book is written by Dan Rahmel and published by Apress publishing. In 13 chapters and about 450 pages, Beginning Joomla provides the necessary knowledge to build and manage personal homepages, user communities, and corporate websites.

Introduction to Joomla!

The book starts with a brief introduction to content management systems and Joomla! Talking about the project history and how it forked from Mambo, then its features and how Joomla system works. Briefly, but I think it's necessary to get to know the project better. Finally the author pointed to differences between Joomla 1.0 and 1.5, where features have been boosted but compatibility have been broken for plugins between 1.0, 1.5 and mambo.

Quickstart: Setting up a Joomla site in 20 minutes

The second chapter, as its title indicates, dive you directly into Joomla world from the installer. The chapter explains how to install Joomla and make it working in 20 minutes, but I'm sure that before you finish the book you will be able to install it in less than one minute. There are issues very confusing with the installation especially for newbie's, so if you are new to Joomla management interface be sure to install the sample data. Many ignored since it's optional and the book just mentioned briefly in a screenshot.

Now that you have Joomla installed and working correctly, the book give you an introduction to be more familiar with the management interface: Adding articles, managing menus, personalize the logo, and different components in place. This is probably the end of the novice part of the book and you will see in next chapters more intermediate and advanced topics.

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