CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators’ manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. These concepts represent integrated and interdependent layers. There are various nomenclatures known in this area: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management and so on. The bottom line for these systems is managing content and publishing, with a workflow if required.

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Offline processing

• These systems pre-process all content, applying templates before publication to generate Web pages. Vignette CMS and Bricolage are examples of this type of system. Since pre-processing systems do not require a server to apply the templates at request time, they may also exist purely as design-time tools; Adobe Contribute is an example of this approach.

Online processing

• These systems apply templates on-demand. HTML may be generated when a user visits the page, or pulled from a cache. Hosted CMSs are provided by such SaaS developers as AspireCMS, Bravenet, UcoZ, Freewebs and Crownpeak.
• Some of the better known open source systems that produce pages on demand include Concrete5, Mambo, Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3, Zikula and Plone, etc…
• DotNetNuke is a partially open source CMS that runs on asp.net and is free to download and install. DNN produces pages on demand but levels and types of caching can be set. There are also many additional “modules” that can be purchased or installed for free to extend the functionality of DNN as needed, many of which create data and content dynamically.
• Most Web application frameworks perform template processing in this way, but they do not necessarily incorporate content management features. Wikis, e.g. MediaWiki and TWiki generally follow an online model (with varying degrees of caching), but generally do not provide document workflow.

Hybrid Systems

• Some systems combine the offline and online approaches. Some systems write out executable code (e.g. JSP, ASP, PHP,ColdFusion,Perl pages) rather than just static HTML, so that the CMS itself does not need to be deployed on every Web server. Other hybrids, such as Blosxom, are capable of operating in either an online or offline mode.

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SMF was created to replace the forum software YaBB SE, which at the time was gaining a bad reputation because of problems with its Perl-based ancestor software YaBB[citation needed]. At the time, YaBB was attributed to causing resource allocation problems on many systems. YaBB SE was written as a rough PHP port of YaBB, and had many of the same resource and security problems of the older YaBB versions. Joseph Fung and Jeff Lewis of Lewis Media Inc., the owners of YaBB SE and the original owners of SMF, made the decision to convert to a new brand and name.

SMF started as a small project by username "[Unknown]" (one of the YaBB SE developers) and its main intent was to add more advanced templating to YaBB SE. The project then slowly grew to address common feature requests, efficiency problems, and security concerns. A rehaul of YaBB SE had been in development for several years, but was superseded by this then competing project. Popular interest in the new YaBB SE fork sparked a complete rewrite of the code, with security and performance in mind. This eventually became today’s Simple Machines Forum.. The first SMF release was SMF 1.0 Beta 1a, released on 30 September 2003 to Charter Members only.

On the 23rd of October 2006, Simple Machines LLC was registered in the state of Arizona, and the transfer of copyrights from Lewis Media to Simple Machines LLC was completed on the 24th of November 2006 during a three-day retreat in Tucson, AZ. This was done for the "[solidification of] the team’s commitment to continuously providing free software, without the perceived risks of corporate influence"

Future

On 8 April 2007, Simple Machines announced the introduction of their next version, SMF 2.0 [8]. SMF 2.0 has been in development alongside SMF 1.1 since December 2005. This version will have many new features, including:

• Database abstraction – with support for PostgreSQL and SQLite planned alongside that of MySQL.
• Automatic installation of packages into themes other than just the default.
• Email templates to simplify customization of forum emails.
• Moderation center including post, topic and attachment moderation – to allow approving of user content before it is made public.
• User warning system.
• Additional group functionally including group moderators and requestable/free assignable groups.
• WYSIWYG editor to provide an intuitive user interface to those users not familiar with BBCode.
• Permission improvements such as group inheritance and permission profiles to further reduce the complexity of the permissions system.
• File based caching for a performance increase on all forums regardless of whether an accelerator is installed.
• Mail queuing system to stagger the sending of emails to improve performance on large forums.
• Advanced signature settings to allow the administrator of a forum to more tightly control the contents of users signatures.
• Personal messaging improvements including ability to automatically sort incoming messages and a variety of display options.
• Improved upgrade script with better timeout protection and simpler user interface.
• Custom profile fields to enable administrators to add additional member fields from the administration center.
• Use of OpenID.

The first public beta of SMF 2.0 was released on Monday, March 17 2008.

Localization

SMF is available in over 38 languages[9], including Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian. It can be translated to other languages by volunteers. UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 encodings are available for all.

Modifications

SMF has a modification base repository for free modification hosting and tracking via the Simple Machines main site. Many modifications, or "mods" as they are usually called, have been created and distributed free of charge, including an arcade, profile additions, gallery, RPG system, spam filter, various SEO features, and many more. Before being listed on the SMF Mods site, the mod is validated by the SMF Team, to ensure that it complies with the SMF Coding Guidelines.

The Package Manager included in SMF is one of the flagship features. It allows an administrator to install modifications and updates to SMF without having to modify the code of the script, usually with only a few mouse clicks.

The SMF team

The Simple Machines team includes graphics, documentation, customization, localization, marketing, and management divisions. The SMF support staff and users also provide free support on the official community forums. Their duties include helping forum owners with troubleshooting and optimization.

Charter Members

People who wish to support Simple Machines with a donation of 50 USD yearly are rewarded with a Charter Membership. This grants access to a hidden section on the forum and advanced beta versions to test before they go public. Advanced support for SMF including installation and upgrades by the staff are also provided. Charter Members also get access to a private Helpdesk staffed by the Simple Machines Support Team where Charter Members can receive one-on-one support outside of the public forum.

SMF and free software

SMF is occasionally criticized for not being available under a free software license; the developers acknowledge this. Redistribution of the software, even unmodified, is not allowed without written permission. The source code is not redistributable either, although it is allowed to distribute instructions on how to modify it.

Minimum System Requirement

To run SMF, the webserver you’re hosted on must meet a few simple requirements. These are not terribly high, and as such most hosts meet them.

• Any webserver that properly supports PHP, such as Apache or Internet Information Services (IIS).
• PHP 4.1.0 or higher. The following directives are required to be set correctly in php.ini:
  • the engine directive must be On.
  • the magic_quotes_sybase directive must be set to Off.
  • the session.save_path directive must be set to a valid directory.
  • the file_uploads directive must be On.
  • the upload_tmp_dir must be set to a valid directory.
• MySQL 3.23.4 or higher.
• at least 512 kilobytes of storage space in the database, although more is highly recommended.
• about two and a half megabytes of storage space on the web server, although more is recommended.

Recommended System Requirements

However, for best performance and use, a bit more is suggested. This includes the following:

• Linux or another Unix based operating system.
• The GNU Aspell and its dictionaries for spell checking support.
• Apache with AcceptPathInfo set to On (Apache 2 and later only) for queryless URL support.
• PHP 4.3.0 or higher, with the following set in php.ini:
  • the max_input_time directive is set to a value of at least 30.
  • the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize directives are set to the size of the largest attachments you wish to be able to upload.
  • the session.use_trans_sid directive set to Off.
  • the memory_limit directive is set to at least 8M.
  • the max_execution_time directive is set to at least 15.
  • the register_globals directive is set to Off.
• MySQL 4.0.15 or higher with query caching enabled.
• GD Graphics Library 2.0 or higher.

Links

• Official Website
• Download SMF
• SMF Mods
• SMf Themes
• SMf – Powered-by

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Designed with a clean and sleek look, making Comuna 3 suitable for a website with full concentration on contents. CSS implementation and lightweight codes made your Joomla website will have faster loading time and efficient.

We have developed Comuna 3 in two social networking component platforms for Joomla (so, Quickstart for this template also available in two versions.)

One, using Jomsocial (social networking commercial Joomla component) and Community Builder (free / GPL component).

To use the Jomsocial version, you have to buy it first at jomsocial.com (because inside the available Quickstart on our server, Jomsocial is not included). Install the Jomsocial just like you install the usual component on Quickstart Jomsocial version, then all the dummy data tab setting as you seen on demo site will immediately synchronized. And for the CB version, all are included, just like the demo site

Oh, like always, a template from template plazza came in with amazing features…

This time, the template came along with these extra extensions:

1. TPajaxtabs Module . With this module, you can load any modules inside a module. This action will optimize space on your website and also with the ajax ability, TPajaxtabs will only loads contents from a module when visitor click on the tab of the desirable module. To have this module run well, you have to install the component first.
2. TP autovatar plugin . This plugin will display a picture of the writer on the head of the article. The avatar itself can be choosen, whether is it from Jomsocial avatar or Community Builder. If there’s no avatar available, then it will be replaced by a default image. This TPautovatar will make your website appear more professional and lovely.
3. Recent Activities module for Community Builder . This module will display the latest activities of the members, such as when they updating their profiles, uploading pictures, etc.
4. Latest member module for Jomsocial . Because when this template was made there’s no module with function that similar to Jomsocial.com, we decided to make this module on our own. This module will display the avatar of the latest members who sign in on the website, which can be set on several options that are available on the backend of this module.
5. CB superthumb module for Joomla 1.5 . CB superthumb module is a multifunction module that can display avatar from the site members with different and flexible settings. This module will give your website more interactive and attractive look. This module officially only available for J1.0 version, and now, here it is the Joomla 1.5 version.
6. Gjive category module for Joomla 1.5 . This module also officially only available for the Joomla 1.0 version. It can display group categories in groupjive, in a directory format.
7. Spesial template for Jomsocial and Community Builder . We have edited template from Jomsocial and CB a bit, to make it blended well in comuna 3.
8. Inset position that only appears on common visitor. If user have login, this position will disappear. You can use this position to publish banner, or promotion that is aimed only for common visitor. For example, a banner with suggestion to join the website. To use it, simply assigned your module on inset position.
9. Template overriding for frontpage, that will change the appearance of your Joomla frontpage into a more professional and attractive look.
10. 4 design variations, 9 font styles, 3 font sizes, and 2 template orientations, that will give you power and flexibility to decide which layout that is suitable with what you want.

Links

• Live demo
• About the Template
• more from TemplatePlazza

Features

• Translation template which makes it possible to translate into any language easily.
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to resize uploaded photos on the fly for the main page thumbnail
• Integrated Theme Settings page to adjust the layout through WordPress admin dashboard.
• Built in banner management
• 8 different color schemes
• 7 widgetized areas
• Built in Flickr Support
• Built in photo gallery
• Built in video gallery
• Ajax tabs
• Ad and serch engine optimized
• Dropdown navigation

Links

• Live Demo
• About the Theme

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

UNRIC services Western Europe and provides information and documentation to the countries of the region. Its information outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint projects and events are organized with key partners, including governments, the media, NGOs, educational institutions and local authorities.

UNRIC also disseminates information materials, major UN reports and documents, press kits, posters, fact sheets and brochures.

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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.

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About the Author

Tessa Blakeley Silver’s background is in print design and traditional illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. Prior to starting her consulting and development company hyper3media (pronounced hyper-cube media) http://hyper3media.com, Tessa was the VP of Interactive Technologies at eHigherEducation, an online learning and technology company developing compelling multimedia simulations, interactions, and games that met online educational requirements like 508, AICC, and SCORM. She has also worked as a consultant and freelancer for J. Walter Thompson and The Diamond Trading Company (formerly known as DeBeers) and was a Design Specialist and Senior Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ East Region Marketing department. Tessa authors several design and web technology blogs. Joomla! Template Design is her first book.

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