Archive for the ‘CMS’ Category

Consider when you making a Blog comment.

23December 2009


Blogging is a new trend of keep in touch with the community around and very nice way of sharing knowledge among them. Having a blog to a web site would keep always visitors up to date. It is important to make blog post every now and then but one other thing we have to count on is community response to the posts that we make. In another words it has to be two way contribution of knowledge. This is where proper commenting function always makes the blog so interacting and gives whole new value to a discussion.

Blog comments are lifeblood of a blog, it makes a discussion deeper and more interesting. It is a social aspect that makes blog such a powerful component among the community. As the conversation builds, so will the relationship with your reader and the popularity.

When writing comments try to catch the attention of people, make it more an on going conversation make involve not only the author but also the other readers as well. It would be main fact of increasing the traffic to your site. It is really unnecessary to make the text bold to highlight the comment.

Almost every blog has a comment functionality, in the comment section you may notice as first entry you required to enter some details in order to make a post. Name, e-mail & web site link, so make sure you are not repeating the same info. for the second time. It will give the impression that you are spamming the comment area for some other links.

Most of readers used to comment blogs without a proper understanding about the article, In fact they don’t spend time on reading it, no sense at all, completely divers the whole idea by using a different interpretation. So make sure you have a good understanding about the whole conversation is about.

It is not nice to be harsh on others comments that could be there opinions, they might be wrong but pass the massage across in a polite manner without showing that you are the “guru” on the subject. Remember this is a one way of sharing the knowledge. Try to compliment the effort that they have put on writing the articles.



This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

What is DotNetNuke?

22December 2009


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DotNetNuke (DNN) is an open source Portal and Content Management Framework, based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. It is a Content Management System that makes easy to create, deploy and manage websites, intranet, and extranet. The best part about DNN is it is fully customizable. DNN uses pieces of software called modules that can be developed in numerous ways and therefore get the best solution for any website. Also, one does not have to be a technical user as DotNetNuke web content management (WCM) system and application development platform was designed for end-users-everyday users who maintain websites for charitable organizations, non profit groups and so on.

Apart from the community edition, DotNetNuke also comes in the professional edition with premium functionality and technical support options. These additional features ensure success for organizations running business critical websites and applications.

In the community edition you would find features such as:

*Google Analytics Support

*Change Audit

Including the above mentioned features, the professional edition contains additional features such as:

*Google Analytics for Marketing Support
*Advanced Content Approval Process
*Granular Permissions
*Distributed Caching Provider
*File Integrity Checking
*Health Monitoring
*Vulnerability Database

DotNetNuke follows a three-tier architecture model with a core framework providing support to the extensible modular structure.

Contact Wakensys at 773.552.1355 for more information.



This article was posted by Mufthie

Comprehensive E-learning Software.

21December 2009


E-learning is very much popular concept in every corner of the world of education. Seems to be the concept provides a grater solution for many barriers in today’s most educational systems. Generally speaking this is a process of sharing knowledge to a wide range of students with maximum control over their resources. By means of effective e-learning system not only the student benefits but also the educational provider to a great extend.

Moodle is one of the main E-learning packages with significant user base of more than 50,000, especially design for online base education and most importantly it is open sources and released under the terms of open sources license. Moodle is an acronym for “Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment”. It is freely available, easily deploy and maintain. Sine it has been written using PHP and SQL type databases (MYSQL) can be further extending functionality using PHP under the same license. And it can be run on windows, MAC and Linux.

Moodle infrastructure support many types of plug-ins;

• Enrolment methods
• Content filters
• Access levels
• Themes
• Question types
• Activities & games using math & words
• Interactive chat

CMS Course Management system facilitates with very efficient admin panel to administrate the student enrolments, course registrations and manage the educational recourses in a very flexible and controlled manner. Students who have access privileges to the system may sign in from any geographical location, in fact they have the privilege of review their status, update with lessons and new syllabuses, mean while students could interact live with the other students by using chat module with file sharing.

Now days why most of Universities, Collages & institutions are more likely use an e-learning package because of student population. Moodle e-learning package is a full comprehensive solution is not only for the student population but also for the dynamic functional changes which arises in any educational institute.

Experts in open source e-learning software & virtual learning environment Moodle, Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355



This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

ABOUT JOOMLA

17December 2009


What is JOOMLA? Joomla is a Content management system (CMS). There are some advantages and disadvantages in joomla. Joomla is a user friendly content management system. Normal users also can able to understand the contents of joomla. It’s a open source software. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example

* Corporate Web sites or portals
* Corporate intranets and extranets
* Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
* E-commerce and online reservations
* Government applications
* Small business Web sites
* Non-profit and organizational Web sites
* Community-based portals
* School and church Web sites
* Personal or family homepages

But unfortunately in joomla we can’t extend the core of joomla. But they developing to correct this .There released the new version 1.6.its easy to download.



This article was posted by Arshad

Microsoft .Net CMS

17December 2009


Now the Private and public clients as well as smaller companies preferred to use CMS tools for their web applications on Microsoft .NET Platform. Dotnetnuke (DNN) has design based on Microsoft technology. DNN is a fully functional CRM with extensible functionalities for constant changing commercial portals and robust. DNN developed in VB.net released under the both BSD and commercial license.

* Community Edition

Community edition is released specially for non-technical users to create and edit content to customize the functionalities according to the personnel preference. Since it is extensible modular base, can be further expanded using third party modules or skin for a better custom graphics.

* Professional Edition

Professional Edition was introduced in February 2009 with version 5.0; this is commercial edition for the business oriented users with premium functionality and technical support options. It is tested and verify version for with business critical application.

Google Analytics; Google analytics help to keep a track of visitors, average time on landing pages and to do a marketing campaign.

User Permissions & levels; Provides different levels of access rights to modules and to content.

File Integrity & checking; Checks files in the installation and reports any inconsistencies which may impact web site reliability.

Health Monitoring; Pings the web site periodically to identify failures and will notify the site owner. Also ensures the site stays in web server memory for faster user accessibility.

Professional edition offers full product documentation, Email notification of security patches with product updates and a comprehensive online knowledge base application for users. DotNetNuke uses a three-tier architecture model which enables lot of add-ons to enrich the application.

Experts in Microsoft .Net CMS DotNetNuke Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355



This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

Why open source for e-commerce

16December 2009


Open source has a greater concern in today’s world between both the web users and the web professionals.

Why it is becoming increasingly popular, simply say Open source web designing are freely available for users, because it’s under the terms of General Purpose license (GPL). No need of in depth knowledge of wed designs or the structure of it and anybody has a right to freely use and modify accordingly to their requirement.

Open source content management for E-commerce

World of business has put more emphasis on doing their business activities online by knowing that it has a broad way of reaching customers. E-commerce could be integrated in to most aspects of the business concerning B2B, B2C or B2A.

E-commerce should support the constant change of the business world to come, therefore to compliance with the changing requirement users now a day’s tend to choose very flexible and maintainable web site In fact they looking for open source web developers to develop their web sites.

One of the best open source systems to cater the e-commencing requirement is Joomla (CMS) and it’s a top rated contain management system for dynamic contents with database functionalities & user levels. Since it is written in PHP, (open source language) very much support the frequent modifications and uses MYSQL as the database. Especially it is free released under the terms of GNU GPL.

Flexibility

Doesn’t matter the size of the company whether big or small and how many business functionality it has Joomla handles it extremely well, since it has the flexibility of removing and adding functionalities to its core Joomla. Another important fact that the Joomla has is the flexibility of changing UI design according to the user preference.

Specialization

Most of web businesses tend to use the blogs, content publishing & commenting system to improve the SEO and to get the user feedback which is very effective. For a company as such the Joomla is the solution. It does both the function extremely well. Since blog is one of its core functionalities.

Search engine friendly (SEF)

Joomla supports SEO in a broad way to its context, using frequently changing content and its URL’s. More frequent change content covers wide area of the site itself. Since Joomla support the search engine friendly functionality option, it converts all the dynamic URL’s in to plain text.

Language support

Joomla support wide range of languages, Joomla has its own plug-in which translates languages therefore Joomla support Multilanguage and localization

If you want to develop a Joomla web site for your business contact Wakensys



This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

DRUPAL

15December 2009


What is drupal? Drupal is a CMS program. Drupal is used to build web sites. It’s a highly modular.

It is extensible, standards-compliant, and strives for clean code and a small footprint. Drupal ships with basic core functionality, and additional functionality is gained by the installation of modules. Drupal is designed to be customized, but customization is done by overriding the core or by adding modules, not by modifying the code in the core. It also successfully separates content management from content presentation. Drupal can be used to build an Internet portal, a personal, corporate web

Site, an e-commerce site, a resource directory, an online newspaperman image gallery; and an Intranet, to mention only a few.

Drupal it’s a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.

Drupal is only supports for PHP .But it’s runs in any platform.

For an example (Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX) .Dupal is open source software so we can free download through internet.

What is drupal? Drupal is CMS program. Drupal is used to build web sites. It’s a highly modular.

It is extensible, standards-compliant, and strives for clean code and a small footprint. Drupal ships with basic core functionality, and additional functionality is gained by the installation of modules. Drupal is designed to be customized, but customization is done by overriding the core or by adding modules, not by modifying the code in the core. It also successfully separates content management from content presentation. Drupal can be used to build an Internet portal, a personal, corporate web

Site, an e-commerce site, a resource directory, an online newspaperman image gallery; and an Intranet, to mention only a few.

Drupal it’s a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.

Drupal is only supports for PHP .But it’s a “PLATFORM INDIPENDNCE “that means its runs any platform.

For an example (Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX) .Dupal is open source software so we can free download through internet.



This article was posted by Arshad

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

14December 2009


We can say shortly as CMS .A CMS is a collection of procedures. It’s using for managing and controlling the dynamic web contents. We can allow for large number of people to contribute to and share stored data, control access to data, based on user roles, User roles are used to define each use as to what information they can view or edit, aid in easy storage and retrieval of data, reduce repetitive duplicate input, improve the ease of report writing, improve the ease of report writing.

In a CMS, data can be defined as almost anything – documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, and publishing documentation. Content that is controlled is industry-specific. There are 6 main categories of CMS. Enterprise CMS, Web CMS, Document Management System, Component Content Management System, Media Content Management System.

Here some examples for Content management System. Drupal, Joomla, OS commerce, Zen cart.etc. Very easy to developing shopping carts, web based programs, dynamic web pages. For an example if we developing a dynamic web using drupal, we can download the themes (templates),modules for our need.



This article was posted by Arshad

Important of Joomla for a cooperate web site.

13December 2009


As a mater of fact Contain Management Systems (CMS) have become more and more dominant trend of development in todays co-operate businesses. Joomla is one of them, it is a content management system and adds to that, which is one of the awards winning and leading content management competitors.

Co-operate sectors most likely preferred to use their co-operate website as a tool for the success of their business. Generally speaking tools are supposed to compliance with most aspects of the business, functionally or non-functionally. This is where Joomla acts as a great tool to fulfill the most the aspects of a great tool. In fact Joomla is a tailor made website to cater most of the organizational functionalities.

Joomla is efficiently built very user-friendly rich content with real time publishing and editing functionality. The user-friendliness and easy setup, deployment and maintains are some of the prominent factors that the Joomla has. Joomla has very user friendly administrative functionality (admin panel), which enable to maintain every content and the functionality of the site. User would able to do a complete change of front end UI according to user preference or accordingly to the co-operate profile (business them).

Security vulnerabilities for the company and for their sensitive data are been the major factors that the company have to think of while implementing a web site. But Joomla has its core functionality to overcome the security issues time to time by adding new patches to its core,  and  incorporating with great user privileges and access level to their users.

Generally to operate a company website the company needs to recruit a web expertise not only to maintain but also for the development of additional functionalities, nevertheless which would be an obvious fact that the companies have to face with the Constance change of business, but all these difficulties would be an easy task with Joomla, it will eliminate all the additional charges of maintain and development and more importantly it save the time.

If you like get done your co-operate website in Joomla contact Wakensys at 773.552.1355 to get a solution.



This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA