Black Nero blogger template is Ipiet. Dominated black, grey, and dark color, added light green color for variation. This template is adsense ready. Compatible on all newest browser version.

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Base on Revolution Lifestyle WordPress Template by Brian Gardner.

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2Plus its an ecxellent blogger template. Designed by Klodian and Dante, this is why we called it 2Plus.

2Plus is clear, simple, minimal looks professional like a premium template, but we enjoy to give it for free.

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Features :

• Three column
• Adsense ready
• Product Featured
• Automatic thumbnail and readmore
• Work in all major browser
• Auto alignment post

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Business Ads Ready Blogger Template is suitable for business blog.

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Unique Features

These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme:

• 2 different layout options for both the featured area, as well as the header;
• 7 ad spaces (468×60, 300×250, 125×125) in total;
• Sidebar video player;
• Integration of a lifestream;
• 2 widgetized areas (homepage middle column, site-wide sidebar);
• 8 custom Woo widgets; and
• 11 great colour schemes to suit your site identity.

Standard Features

These features are probably just as special as the one’s above, but you’ll find these standard features within most of our wide range of themes:

• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme (screenshot);
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page;
• Threaded Comments for WP 2.7;
• Trendy drop-down menu’s for your main navigation;
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap;
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments; and
• Integrated Banner Management script to display banner ads of your choice site-wide.

Ad space

The theme has a variety of ad space to choose from, and can display both banner ads and adsense code which you input into your option panel. The ad spaces availabe are:

• 300×250px MPU in the featured area (only for alternative layout)
• 468×60px in the header besides the logo (alternative header layout)
• 468×60px after every single post
• 125×125 widget (upto 4 ads) which you can place in any of the 4 widget spaces.

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All BuddyPress plugins can be themed to match your own style, in just the same way as a WordPress blog. The BuddyPress plugins are bundled with a default theme to get you going out of the box.

As all BuddyPress plugins are independant, they can be used in two different ways. All of the plugins could be used to create a complete social network from scratch, or you could use specific plugins to add desirable features to your existing blog network.

Features

• Extended Profiles – The extended profile component allows site admins to create specific profile fields for site members to fill in. The type of field can be set (such as text box, date selector, radio buttons etc) and profile fields can then be grouped. When BuddyPress is first installed, a “Basic” group is created with “First Name”, “Last Name” and a profile picture upload option. These fields cannot be modified or removed as they make up the base of a member’s profile. The site admin can add fields to this Basic group. Any fields that are in this group will appear on the signup page when a member registers. By doing this, new members can partially fill in their profile and be ready to go upon first login.
• Private Messaging – BuddyPress private messaging works like internal site email. Members can message people on their friends list as well as forward and reply to received messages.
• Friends – Members of a BuddyPress enabled installation can be connected together by one member adding another as a “friend” and then the other member accepting the friendship request. Each member has a visible list of their friends on the site. Friends lists are browsable and members can click on each friend to see more information – or add them as their own friend. Profiles are not restricted as a whole.
• Groups – Groups in BuddyPress are a gathering of members, blog posts, photos and any other user generated content. Any member can create a group in BuddyPress. They then become the group administrator giving them heightened privileges within that group.
• The Wire – The wire is a place where friends and other members can come along and post messages to a specific piece of content within a BuddyPress installation. The wire will work with any component within BuddyPress, custom or official. For example, within the official components explained on this page – profiles and groups use the wire component. This allows members to post on other members profiles or leave messages for other group members.
• Activity Streams – Allowing multiple blogs and multiple users per blog is a key feature to WordPress MU. BuddyPress preserves this functionality. The blogs component will aggregate all blogs, blog posts and comments for a member across the entire installation. This means other members can easily find all blogs that a member belongs to or owns, as well as their recent posts and comments.
• Forums – The forums component allows groups to create and manage their own bbPress forum. Group members can post and reply to topics all from within the group’s page. Forums are not specifically tied to groups, they are generic, just like the wire. Forums can be attached to any content within an installation. This means third party plugins and new components can make use of the forums component in the future.

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1. Removing the “generator WordPress x.x” Meta Tag

• WordPress is probably the best blogging platform out there, it is also one of the most targeted blogs by hackers, removing the generator tag, prevents the hacker from knowing the version of your WordPress powered blog.
• Add this code to your functions.php file <?php remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’); ?>
• Remove the <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.5″ /> located in the header.php in your theme’s folder

2. Changing the Location of your image upload folders

• Useful when your using custom fields for your themes, the url  will be shorter and easier to locate, and don’t forget to unselect the “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders.”

3. Disabling the WordPress auto thumbnail generator

• WordPress by default creates several copies of the image you upload, if you have a lot of images, you can easily increase the size of your image folder. To prevent this simply change the thumbnail size to “0” from the Settings – > media

History

dotCMS was initially developed as a Java alternative to the PHP CMSes on the market, as well as to provide a counterpoint to high cost, enterprise applications. It is the result of over 5 years of development by dotMarketing, Inc, which also developed and released the open source project management tool dotProject. In order to achieve compliance with JSR-168 portlet specification dotCMS was built upon the Liferay portal, though has since forked Liferay at version 3.2.2. dotCMS 1.0 was initially open sourced and made available in 2005 under the dotMarketing Public License. In 2006, dotCMS released version 1.2 which included the structured content engine. In 2007 dotCMS released version 1.5, which included a new user interface and permissions. In October, 2007 dotCMS 1.5 was the runner up for Packt Publishing’s “Best New Open Source CMS” award, followed in 2008 by a second place finish for Packt’s “Best Other Open Source CMS (best non PHP CMS)”. In February 2008, dotCMS users held the first annual “Open Minds” conference in Coconut Grove, Florida. Currently, dotMarketing continues to develop and improve features within dotCMS, such as the social calendar and WebDav integration.

Community

dotCMS has an active and engaged community. There is an annual users conference, a listserv, IRC channel, and Ning and Facebook groups. dotMarketing has also began work on an official community web site, which will be home to a new documentation system a la PHP.net, allowing users to comment and provide examples of code usage, as well as collaborate. The current user base includes deployments by thousands of companies, news organizations, universities, individuals, and more. More information regarding the dotCMS community can be found on the dotCMS website.

Open Minds Conference

The first annual Open Minds Conference was held February 7-10 in Miami, FL. This event was designed to bolster excitement in the community, and provide a venue for users to meet, collaborate, and network. Topics ranged from introductory installation sessions, to more advanced talks on setting up development environments, and was attended by more than 60 participants from 20 institutions. The second annual conference is scheduled for February 4-6, 2009, and will remain in Miami.

IRC Channel

For users familiar with IRC, you can visit the dotCMS channel on Freenode. If you do not have an IRC client, or are unfamiliar with their usage, dotMarketing has provided a web page based client. Either way will allow you to chat with other users and experts on the usage of dotCMS.

Technologies

dotCMS is a standards based CMS written in the JAVA programming language, and comes bundled with the Apache Tomcat Application Server. It is database agnostic and can run on PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL or Oracle. It is capable of integrating with user’s authentication scheme’s, such as Active Directory or LDAP, and will support operation in a clustered or load balanced environment. It leverages a number of standards based open source projects such as:

• Apache Struts Web Framework
• Apache Lucene Search Engine
• Apache Velocity Templating Language
• Liferay Portal
• EXT Javascript Framework
• Apache Tomcat Application Server
• OSCache distributed caching system
• Hibernate Object Relational Mapping

Structured Content

The driving concept behind content stored within dotCMS is that it is addressed through a system of structures. Structures are administrated through a back end portlet where fields are assigned to them. Fields are named and given a content type and then ordered. Each structure can then be permissioned and used when creating content, and allows different types of content with consistent components to be referenced for display on the front end. A “web page content” structure could be assigned a title and body, for instance, while “events” have titles, dates, times, locations, descriptions, links, etc. Structures therefore allow the CMS to tailor itself to the content demands of the institution using it, because they can create and define structures that are specific to their needs. Those structures can then be created through relationships, allowing content from one structure to be associated content items in another. There is no limit to the number of structures one can use within dotCMS.

Other information

• Developed by  dotCMS Development Group
• Latest release  1.6.5a / 04 December 2008;
• Written in  Java
• OS  Cross-platform
• Type  Content Management System
• License  GNU General Public License v2
• Website  http://www.dotcms.org/

CMS Made Simple provides a mechanism for the website administrator to create and manage “pages”, their layout, and their content. CMS Made simple is unobtrusive…. You can create a table based layout, or a fully validating XHTML/CSS layout.

CMS Made Simple makes managing the navigation in your website a breeze… you can re-organize your pages any way you want, and navigations are automatically created from your page hierarchy. This tool makes creating numerous different navigations with the entire page hierarchy, or a subset of it “simple”.

CMS Made Simple separates layout code from content code, so that editors can manage content without having to know much about how websites work, so that layouts can be easily edited and take effect on numerous pages, and can be easily shared. With CMS Made Simple you design once, and easily use that same design over and over again. Smarty (a php based templating engine) is used to provide most of the caching, templating, and logic capabilities. This basic building block also provides the ability for website administrators to virtually eliminate any duplication of code or content.

The Core package provides the ability to manage news articles, search functionality a contact form, a WYSIWYG editor (for your customers or editors) and numerous other built in functions. Additionally, there are hundreds of third party add-on tools that are quickly and easily installable to allow building websites with many different capabilities.

CMS Made Simple is built in PHP, and allows you to integrate many existing PHP scripts or PHP snippets into your website… Though you definately don’t need indepth knowledge of PHP to use CMS Made Simple.

Who should use CMS Made Simple?

If you’re an experienced web developer. If you have found that sometimes creating a simple corporate or organization website is difficult in some of the other content management systems. If you have found that other CMS’s are sometimes “overkill” for what you need. If you want to be able to hand off the content management to editors. If you want complete control over the layout and appearance of the site, and you know how to do it… If you want a simple, easy to use, yet expandable tool – then CMS Made Simple is probably for you.

CMS Made Simple is not a replacement for packages that build static websites like Dreamweaver or FrontPage, etc. These packages don’t use databases, provide little in the way of dynamic content, and usually content cannot be edited by customers.

Is CMS Made Simple really “simple”?

Yes it is. Many of our experienced users find it a simple tool for building many websites. However, that does not mean that there isn’t some learning to be done. You will at the least need to learn our vocabulary, explore the package and it’s options, play around a bit, and probably do considerable learning. Did you jump right in to HTML and learn how to do professional websites in 30 minutes. Probably not, and CMS packages (including this one) are similar. There are a few things you will need to learn.
5. What knowledge do I need?

To take advantage of CMS Made Simple, you should have at a minimum a basic understanding of:

• Creating Databases, and backing up / restoring databases.
• Working with, and transferring files to a remote host
• Manipulating permissions on remote hosts
• A basic understanding of HTML and CSS
• Diagnosing errors:

From time to time, with different hosts, problems do occur in any online application. When working with these, you need a basic understanding of how they work, and how to diagnose some problems, so that you can assist the support personnel, or perhaps identify and solve the problem on your own. This includes:

• Finding your website error logs and access logs
• The ability to understand some of the error messages or access log lines
• The ability to find, identify and to some level diagnose Javascript errors
• An ability to learn independently, and do some research on your own.

What are the system requirements?

• Web server with PHP 4.3+ (Linux/Unix, Windows 2000/XP/ME/2003, OS X)
  • (CMS Made Simple does not officially support PHP safe mode)
  • At least 16mb of available memory for PHP (This should work fine for most small to medium sized websites. However, as your site grows, or you utilize other addon modules, your memory requirements may increase.)
  • PHP tokenizer support enabled
  • At least one of ImageMagick or GD enabled
  • MySQL 3.23 or 4.0+ or PostgreSQL 7 +
  • Enough access to your server to upload files and change some permissions

Where can I get help/support?

There are numerous forms of support available for CMS Made Simple:

• The default content: – The well documented content pages, templates and stylesheets that are displayed with a new installation of CMS Made Simple are an invaluable way of introducing yourself to the package and getting to know how the package works. We encourage you to read all of this thoroughly and save this information for future reference while building your website.
• The Documentation
• Built in Help: -   Each module and tag installed in a CMS Made Simple website includes basic help and examples to assist in utilizing the the functionality.
• Public/Community support

The CMS Made Simple forum is an invaluable way of finding out information about the CMS Made Simple core, and the add-ons. There are thousands of posts by the development team and members of our community that describe the various problems our users have encountered, and how they were solved.

We attempt to keep the forum clean from distracting posts, or posts that are not directly and specifically relevant to CMS Made Simple. Additionally, in order to expedite support, we ask that all users spend the time to research, and accurately describe their issues. Therefore please read and follow the forum rules when posting.

• Commercial Support: – Paid support is available to those people with an important project that are concerned about the turn-around time that may be related to getting an issue solved. Additionally, if you would like to have somebody to call for problems that you just can’t fix, upgrade issues, backups, or any other concern, then commercial support may be an option for you.
• Paid Development: – So you’ve got the tool up and running, and you like what you see…. but your project requires some functionality that isn’t yet available for CMS… or doesn’t quite work the way you want it to. For that, the CMS Made Simple Development Team offers independent contracting services. Our in-depth knowledge of the tool, and experience in building the package and its add-on modules can ensure that you get a working, well fitting, quality tool.

Other Information

• Developer:  Ted Kulp
• Current version:  1.5.1 “San Juan”(04 December 2008)
• Operating system:  all LAMP systems, Windows and Mac
• Category:  Content Management System
• License:  GPL (free software)

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