2009 Predictions for Web CMS, ECM, Mobile, MOSS and more
And so it has started. The end of the year is upon us and everyone is thinking about what’s ahead. Independent analyst firm CMS Watch has offered up their 2009 predictions. If the results of how they faired with last year’s round are any indication, we may all do well to pay attention.
Movable Type Motion: A New Social Application
We all love our micro-blogging applications. We Tweet, we Tumble, we Pownce (or at least we did Pownce), we feed our friends. Now thanks to Movable Type we are in Motion. They have released a beta for their new social application, Motion, for licensed users of Movable Type Pro.
The Latest Guide to Developing with Drupal Web CMS
O’Reilly Media wants to help make working with the Drupal web content management system just a bit easier. Many people realize that when working with a CMS of any kind, even an open source option, things can get pretty hairy for those not overly savvy with code and module configuration. Using Drupal’s goal is to eliminate as much frustration and as many wrong turns as possible.
Spruced-up Zimplit CMS 1.1: One Small Step Forward
- Website Menu Reordering: Users can now drag and drop any page to where they want. This should be helpful when users want to change website navigational items, let’s say.
- Theme Picker: Yes, they’re still doing a themed approach to website design. The benefit: no more downloading and uploading of theme package from Zimplit’s site. Just log in to your website, pick any theme and it will be downloaded instantly. Less clicking is almost always a good idea.
- Gallery Thumbnails: This new functionality allows users to see some media files in a “click and zoom” fashion. On top of that, there’s also the yummy automatic resizing function. While we’re not quite sure about what Zimplit means by “It will make your website smaller and quicker,” digital asset management (in some shape or form) is always a welcome functionality in any Web CMS.
- Editor Location Changer: In “one step,” developers can now make their own editors with their own functionality and change editor skin or add their own.