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SEOTOASTER v 1.8.1 combines a powerful and intuitive content management system, fully integrated shopping cart software, a complex sale/b2b e-commerce quoting engine,as well as automated organic search engine marketing execution that requires less than 60 seconds of configuration.

SEOTOASTER integrates the Paypal payment system for credit card processing and can also configure any number of desired additional payment gateways. Version 1.8 of the open source CMS also offers an out-of-the-box integrated quote management engine that is ideal for e-commerce merchants who require offline interaction to close sales. B2C or B2B merchants like car dealers, equipment vendors, or those who sell luxury items or high-end appliances will appreciate its elegant and powerful quoting engine.

The quoting engine requires a single click configuration and, coupled with the shopping cart, handles the intake of quote requests, status displays, and flexible processing. From creation and emailing of PDF quotes to the prospective clients with an integrated online payment button, to addition of products, or even quote creation from scratch over the phone by internal staffers for instance.

With SEOTOASTER v1.8 Ecommerce solution edition, out-of the-box, you can;

• Entirely control the look & feel of your store


• Create product lists and merchandise display options with unlimited flexibility


• Easy single-screen checkout page


• Intuitive user interface



• Easy tax & shipping configuration, including USPS, free shipping & flat fee shipping based on order amount or weight


• Builds products using micro-format for great SEO performance


• Builds XML product feeds for shopping comparison search engines, including Google Products


• Checkout options include Paypal and/or credit card  and/or quote request


• Pre-configured with Paypal Pro gateway & Pay with Paypal button

• Merchandising widgets including scheduled on-sales pricing, and gifting

• Merchant & customer notification for sales


• Included quote engine for complex sales process


• Quote request & prospective client notification


• Quote adjustments, auto-emailing, auto PDF generation


• Simple quote management



• Automates 301 redirection


• Automates deep-links creation


• Automates on-page SEO alignment


• Automates media tagging


• Automates link sculpting


• Automates link silo building via a point & click interface


• Automates and simplifies the ongoing execution of many more arcane SEO techniques while providing an intuitive interface for users.

Users can further enhance SEOTOASTER's existing feature set with an optional SEO Samba subscription, which provides the ability to market from a central interface for multiple websites hosted anywhere in the world. SEO Samba's Internet marketing softwareautomatically executes all on-site SEO techniques and provides access to automated off-site link building tactics; distributes your information to web, RSS directories, and specialized search engines such as Google News; distributes unlimited optimized press releases automatically; and more, for just $99 per month.

SEOTOASTER can be downloaded free of charge here, and is also available as a turnkey e-commerce website builder hosted service, with nightly backup, automated software revision and support for $25/month.

e107 v.0.7.23 is now available. This release is primarily aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing e107′s protection against exploits. (a special thank you to Justin Klein Keane (“MadIrish”) for alerting us to the vulnerabilities, and commenting on the fixes.) One of the changes will also affect users who include youtube videos or other embedded media within their site; please see the included readme for more information.

This release also includes some minor feature enhancements:

Download Flood Protection (simultaneous downloads)
Found in admin under downloads->options. Option to prevent a user from downloading multiple files within a short time-period.

YouTube bbcode ([youtube][/youtube])
Allows you to easily add youtube videos to pages of your website. A conversion script is provided for those who have utilized html-code from Youtube already and wish to convert to the bbcode equivalent. (see included README.txt for details). By default, ‘dangerous’ HTML (such as the ‘embed’ code used with many media) is neutralised when it is displayed. This traps malicious code that may have entered the database before the latest updates were put in place. This filter can be disabled through the preference ‘Filter HTML content’.

Language-pack Creator
Found in admin under languages->tools. For those who are translating e107 into other languages, this tool will zip up your core language files into the standard language-pack format so that they can be shared easily with the e107 community. Important information on using this tool can be found here.

Support for security include scripts.
e107 now supports 3rd-Party security includes such as ZB Block without having to manually modify core scripts. Just install them in your root directory as you would normally. To include ZB Block, you would add the following to e107_config.php: $CLASS2_INCLUDE = ‘zbblock/zbblock.php’; . e107 would then automatically include it in every page of your site.

The full changelog can be found here
We recommend that everyone upgrades to this new release as soon as possible.

Visit their website to learn more : http://e107.org

Owning an Amazon Kindle just got a lot easier! We at Pligg CMS are proud to announce that we are holding another contest for developers. This time around we are asking developers to create free Pligg widgets to share with the community. What’s even better is that widgets are REALLY EASY to develop!

How to Enter:

Submit your widget to the Free Widgets forum. All new submissions are moderated, so your post will not appear immediately after being submitted. Your widget should appear within a few hours of submission, once a forum moderator has approved it. We reserve the right to deny widgets that do not offer any features that we consider to be useful. If your widget offers some type of meaningful functionality it will be approved, we just don’t want to see some mindless “Hello World” type widgets.

* Adult female human hand not included.

At the time of this contest announcement, there is no set deadline for submitting your widget. We will alert everyone when we are nearing the end of the contest deadline and give developers a week long grace period to submit their work before starting the poll that determines the winners.

How Winners are Chosen:

Once the competition period ends, we will host a poll where users can vote on their favorite widget. The widget that receives the most votes by the time the poll closes will be announced as the winner.

Prizes:

The following prizes will be given out to the top 5 widget authors:

• First Place – An Amazon Kindle reader device.
• Second Place – A Seagate FreeAgent Go USB hard drive (or similar).
• Third Place – A SanDisk Cruzer 16 GB USB flash drive (or similar).
• Fourth and Fifth Place – A $25 Pligg Pro gift certificate.

* Black electronics are wicked awesome

The Fine Print:

1. The developer must be the original author of the code. When using third party open source code as the basis of your work, you must properly credit that code and consider it for your own widget license.
2. The widget must use un-compiled, open source code.
3. Widget authors may choose from a number of open source licenses when submitting their widget to the forums, including:
   • Apache License, 2.0
   • Simplified BSD license
   • GNU General Public License (GPL)
   • GNU Library or “Lesser” General Public License (LGPL)
   • MIT license
   • Creative Commons License
4. Contest winners located outside of the continental United States must provide shipping costs, unless a local supplier is able to provide the same prize at equal or lesser value.
5. Authors are limited to only receiving 1 prize, given for the highest rated widget based on poll results. If you develop the #1 and #3 widgets, you will only be given the #1 prize. The #4 widget author would then receive the 3rd place prize.

Strelin CMS is a new fork of the popular open source content management system, Joomla!. Forked from version 1.5, this new CMS is described as having an advanced ACL that Joomla! currently is lacking.

The first beta was released on July 12, 2010.

This is a very new project and right now, there’s minimal information available on the site about why they decided to fork Joomla! as opposed to contribute to it directly.

As far as we can tell, there is currently very little to differentiate it from from Joomla! (other than an ACL option which is forthcoming in Joomla 1.6) and the website needs quite a bit of work, but regardless, we wanted our readers to know that it’s out there.

If you have tried or know more about this CMS, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

You can visit the website here: http://www.strelin.com

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platforms for Microsoft .NET, today announced the release of the DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition includes the new DotNetNuke Content Staging feature that allows users to edit and approve content on a staging server prior to pushing the site to production. In addition, the DotNetNuke Web CMS includes a new Content Localization feature that enables easy management of multi-language web sites. The Content Localization feature is included in all Editions of the platform including the Enterprise, Professional and Community Editions.

News Highlights

Exclusive to the Enterprise Edition, Content Staging allows users to create a separate staging server where all intended production web site changes can be implemented and tested before being published to the production server. Ideal for organizations with many content contributors and tight restrictions on web site content publishing and review, the highly advanced system compares the staging server configuration to the production server to identify missing components and provides a detailed view of all planned changes. Other features include:

• An audit tool that creates a record of all publishing events
• A “white list” in which users can define which modules should push both their settings and content during publishing and which should push only the module settings
• A simple, secure publishing function which allows users to easily push their site from staging to production

All Editions of DotNetNuke including the Enterprise, Professional and Community, now feature a new Content Localization capability that helps users manage translated versions of all or some of their web pages. Ideal for multi-language web sites, the feature includes management and configuration-mapping tools to keep translated pages synchronized across a web site.

With the introduction of the Enterprise Edition, DotNetNuke will no longer offer the Elite Edition, which will now comprise the Professional Edition plus Elite Support. The new Elite Support option – available for the Professional and Enterprise Editions – features extended support hours, faster guaranteed support, priority management of support tickets, installation upgrade assistance, and source code access to the proprietary Professional or Enterprise Edition modules.

DotNetNuke is the fastest growing open source web CMS ever with nearly 900 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcovered marketplace customers, and 400 percent year-over-year growth. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp (company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc (Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.

“The new DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition includes Content Staging which allows organizations to edit and approve web site changes on a staging server prior to publishing to production. Content Staging meets the requirements of our mid-sized and large customers who have formalized rules, guidelines and policies around publishing content. We also added a new Content Localization feature to the DotNetNuke core. The availability of Content Localization in our Community Edition demonstrates our continued commitment to the open core model and to the community at large. Content Localization will benefit our users who build, deploy, and maintain multi-language web sites.” – Navin Nagiah, CEO

About DotNetNuke Corp.

DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional and Enterprise Editions with an Elite Support option. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered where users purchase third party software apps for the platform. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and Pelion Venture Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. For additional information, visit www.dotnetnuke.com.

The main goal of the odCMS project is to promote the use of open source web designs. So far we have converted over five hundreds designs into themes where you can use if you have installed odCMS. However, not everyone wants to install odCMS for whatever the reason, to encourage the use of such designs we launch a service where you can create a website using the converted designs for free. The website created can be downloaded along with the designs you use into your own server/webhost without odCMS. Go to http://mysite.odcms.net if you are interested in trying out this service.

If you have already installed odCMS, your comment on improving it is greatly appreciated.

ocProducts are pleased to announce the full release of ocPortal Version 5, our highly advanced web content management system. This follows a short release candidate version. This version introduces a number of bug fixes, new features, usability improvements, and a wide-sweeping design overhaul since version 4.3.2.



There are a number of key changes and additions within this version of the software; The Admin zone has been given an overhaul including new drop down menus and a much more useful front page. Design change highlights include :



* A complete redesign of the Gallery system (we know this is going to make a lot of people very happy)


* The member profile screen has been completely redesigned


* A restructuring of the member points screen, making the points system far more intuitive.


* The quiz screen has been redesigned


* Just about every side block has been revised


* A brand new commenting interface



We have given an overhaul to commenting, RSS and ratings features. These include allowing guests to choose a display name and improving the previewing of reviews. ocPortal version 5 has been thoroughly tested with IE6 and should display properly on this browser. We do however expect to drop support for IE6 once IE9 is released.



We have put a great deal of work into the ocPortal themeing system, with the aim of making it much easier for users to make their site look just how they want it to. Users can now preview all of the templates they are working on without needing switch between several screens. Other themeing features include making it easier to edit the site logo across all zones & themes, alongside new CSS styled buttons. In addition to the aforementioned template screen preview system, you can methodically work through all the screens in the system in order to ensure your theme looks good.



The ocPortal gallery system has seen a raft of changes, including an improved edit screen and the ability to provide automatic video transcoding (this requires that ffmpeg is installed). There have also been changes and updates within the quiz feature, the events calendar, the catalogue system, the newsletter manager and CEDI.



We have added a new feature that we call “Real-time rain”, which allows you to visualise activity in your website, either in real-time or via historic playback, which you would otherwise only ever see in the form of plain-text logs. This feature is enormous fun for webmasters and is incredibly pretty.



We have made many more changes in addition to those listed above, which are too numerous to include here. If you would like more information (and we hope you do) please come and have a look at everything we have been working on over the last few months; you can find the Full release information at http://ocportal.com/site/news/view/new_releases/ocportal_5_released.htm

TomatoCart as an innovative open source shopping cart with a combination of functionality and flexibility, are now stepping into a new stage, that is, to be mature and better known to the world.

How? Regular release and award campaign can help!

We do believe an open source application can make progress and satisfy shopping cart users on a regular basis. After several releases,TomatoCart is soon to be released with more fascinating and powerful features,which shop owners can have easier access to gaining large traffic and high-volume sales with.

In addition to the updates, an open source application can grow up quickly in an award campaign, gaining more attention from the publich.Thus, TomatoCart are taking part in 2010 Open Sourece Award Campaign for Most Promissing Open Source Project and Open Source E-Commerce Applications Award! The public has a say on the final winners through nomination and voting for their favored open source products. The nomination opens on August 9, 2010, and closes on September 17, 2010. Please nominate and vote for TomatoCart if you do think it a good open source product.

Nomination Entries:
Nominate TomatoCart as Most Promising Open Source Project:
http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/nominate-most-promising-open-source-project

Nominate TomatoCart as your favorite Open Source E-Commerce Applications:
http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/nominate-best-open-source-ecommerce-application

Name of project: TomatoCart
URL of project: http://www.tomatocart.com

As a dynamic and growing product, TomatoCart appreciates this chance to take part in the award campaign. A good result will surely boost our morale and encourage us to devote more to the open source application. We wish all our fans and TomatoCart users help push TomatoCart forward.

P.S. You will also be pleased to hear that by nominating or voting for your favorite Open Source project, you will have chances to win a fantastic Amazon Kindle! Don’t let the chance slip away!

Open Source Awards Timelines:
August 9 | Nominations Open
September 17 | Nominations Close
September 27 | Voting Begins
November 5 | Voting Ends
November 15 | Winners Announced

EmbryoCore is a brand new blog / content management system written from the ground up to take advantage of PHP5's latest features. It's highly customizable, XHTML:Strict compliant, with full integration of jQuery for dynamic ajax-powered content.
A full list of features can be seen here

Main site: http://embryocore.com
Extend site (themes, plugins etc): http://embryocore.com/extend/

The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched yesterday by Packt, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects.

WordPress won the 2009 Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award in what was a very close contest with MODx and SilverStripe. While MODx was the first runner up, SilverStripe, a Most Promising CMS Award winner in 2008, made its way to the second runner up position in its first year in the Open Source CMS Award final.

The 2010 Award will feature a prize fund of $24,000 with several new categories introduced. While the Open Source CMS Award category will continue to recognize the best content management system, Packt is introducing categories for the Most Promising Open Source Project, Open Source E-Commerce Applications, Open Source JavaScript Libraries and Open Source Graphics Software. CMSes that won the Overall CMS Award in previous years will continue to compete against one another in the Hall of Fame CMS category.

These new categories will ensure that the Open Source Awards is the ultimate platform to recognise excellence within the community while supporting projects both new and old. “We believe that the adaption of the Award and the new categories will provide a new level of accessibility, with the Award recognizing a wider range of Open Source projects; both previous winners while at the same time, encouraging new projects” said Julian Copes, organizer of this year’s Awards.

Packt has opened up nominations for people to submit their favorite Open Source projects for each category at www.PacktPub.com/open-source-awards-home . The top five in each category will go through to the final, which begins in the last week of September. For more information on the categories, please visit Packt’s website at www.PacktPub.com/blog/packt’s-2010-open-source-awards-announcement