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Call for Papers: OpenCms Days 2011 in Cologne, Germany

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

Final deadline for speakers to submit their session proposals is March 01, 2011

OpenCms Days 2011 - May 09 to May 10, 2011

Session proposals are welcome. Each session will be 60 minutes long. A typical presentation session should be 45 minutes, followed by a 15 minutes discussion. Other session formats, such as workshops, roundtable discussions and BOF meetings, are also possible.

Session proposals should focus on successful OpenCms projects and should deliver a clear practical value to the audience, e.g. in the form of an OpenCms module or extension that is freely available. For example, this could be

  • Highly specialized custom versions based on OpenCms you want to share with the community
  • Module extensions and add-ons you developed
  • Successful implementation of a customer's needs in an OpenCms project

Only sessions that are of general interest for all OpenCms users are allowed. Company or product promotional sessions will be rejected.

OpenCms Days 2011 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event will be English, and all presentations have to be held in English language, too.

Call for papers is closing March 01, 2011.

Bitrix Site Manager Helps Online Businesses Successfully Manage Peak Traffic and Prevent DDoS Attacks

Bitrix, Inc., a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces its TrafficJuggler™ load balancing technology, which effectively addresses customers’ needs for online business continuity. It delivers industry-leading performance capable of handling traffic spikes caused by extreme visitor activity or by targeted DDoS attacks.

"Sudden traffic spikes and web terrorism are common realities that threaten online business continuity. To cope with this challenge, we continuously improve our products’ performance capabilities, resulting in a stunning figure of 430% growth over the past three years," said Dmitry Valyanov, President of Bitrix, Inc.

Elcom enhances CMS experience with CommunityManager.NET

Sydney, Australia – 16 February 2011– Elcom, one of Australia’s largest independently owned Web Developers, today announced the latest release of CommunityManager.NET (Version7.3) – its flagship enterprise Web Content Management software.

CommunityManager.NET is utilized by over 500 organizations worldwide, and provides a secure and scalable framework which supports websites, intranets, ecommerce platforms, membership systems, mobile platforms and online training capabilities.

Underpinning this latest version of CommunityManager.NET is a variety of updates and additional new features, designed to increase efficiency and reduce costs through an improved user-experience for clients and end-users. At the core of this latest release is the addition of A/B testing to Elcom’s existing Online Marketing offering.

According to Elcom’s Product Director, Anthony Milner, “This new feature was developed in response to industry trends and by really listening to what our clients wanted”. It allows users to test a baseline control sample webpage and compare it to a variety of single-variable test samples, in order to better evaluate and improve response rates. This ultimately enables the execution of “smarter marketing” through testing, evaluation, better resource allocation and enhanced tracking ability – thereby significantly improving Return on Investment.

SubHub Lite – A New Drupal 7 Based Web CMS

UK-based website publishing company, SubHub, has launched SubHub Lite, a new Drupal 7 powered web CMS which opened its doors on November 1st in beta and which now already has a few thousand users.
 
SubHub Lite has been built around the concept of outstanding ease of use.
 
With the majority of content management systems making the assumption that their users will have a certain level of technical expertise, a lot of people who would like to build and manage their own website are left out in the cold. Why?

How YouTube and the Social Web Saved Winter

My back hurts. As with the rest of the United States, my neck of the woods has received more snow and cold weather than one could possibly want for the winter season. Due to the constant snowfall, I have spent a number of my days clearing my driveway from snow with the help of my 15 year old snow blower. Several days ago, the snow blower's auger died on me leaving me with a useless rusting piece of machinery.

Auger Belts

1. Remove the plastic belt cover on the front of the engine by removing two self-tapping screws. See figure 23.

2. Drain the gasoline from the snow thrower or place a piece of plastic under the gas cap.

Contegro v4.0 Changing the Face of Website CMS

The face will be familiar to millions, but in the world of Website CMS this trusted global innovation is yet to be seen until now. With the release of Contegro Version 4, comes a Window’s style desktop that will make even first-time Website CMS users feel like experts.

It’s yet another step towards Contegro’s continuing advancement in completely removing the developer from the website life-cycle, and empowering designers with the sole power to create and manage functionally-rich websites. “Contegro Version 4’s interface brings simplicity and usability in Web CMS to a whole new level,” says Contegro founder Vaughan Reed. “The Window’s Desktop interface is already familiar, so for users every action is intuitive.”

Contegro Version 4’s new Interface and multi-tasking workspace concept is set to revolutionise Web CMS. Take a look at the following key feature releases.

A completely transformed CMS interface

Contegro v4 removes the need to open up multiple browser tabs to manage many different areas of a website or even independent sites; everything can be managed from the new interface. “It makes multi-tasking so simple,” says Reed. “The increase in productivity that can be achieved when setting-up and managing sites by using the new interface, is really exciting.”

Contegro Interface