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Biloba IT realisiert neue Webseite, Newsletter, AdWords und Pressearbeit für Dr. Wallner Engineering GmbH

Esslingen - Die Esslinger Marketingagentur Biloba IT entwirft neues Corporate Design, eine neue Webseite und eine neue Marketingstrategie für Dr. Wallner Engineering GmbH, die Experten für Beratung und Dienstleistung rund um Unigraphics NX und Teamcenter Engineering aus Schönaich bei Stuttgart. Mit einem frischen Design, einer verbesserten Usability und vielen neuen Funktionen möchte das Unternehmen neue Kunden gewinnen.

Dr. Wallner Engineering GmbH, die Experten für Beratung und Dienstleistung rund um Unigraphics NX und Teamcenter Engineering aus Schönaich bei Stuttgart haben zur Neupositionierung ihrer Marke im Internet die Esslinger Marketingagentur Biloba IT mit ins...

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New Google Website Optimizer API enables tests without JavaScript code

Exiting news on the Google Website Optimizer front! The optimisation team over at Google have launched an extension to their API that allows CMS providers to include the Website Optimizer service into their platforms, thereby enabling their customers to run tests without ever having to touch their website code (all happens on the backend, i.e. what page to serve to what visitor).

Textpattern CMS: Keyword plug-in tru_tags version 3.6 available

The awesome feature rich tagging plug-in tru_tags for the great Textpattern CMS comes in a new version. Plugin Author Nathan Arthur from Ohio, USA known to the Textpattern community as user truist again did a great job to make the plug-in more versatile and performant.

Speaking of tagging the tru_tags feature list is an outstanding guide for all CMS how tagging should be realized.

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Betreff:	Reply to topic: 'tru_tags: A tagging plugin based off ran_tags'
Datum:	Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:59:25 +0000
Von:	Textpattern CMS Support Forum Mailer

truist has replied to the topic 'tru_tags: A tagging plugin based off ran_tags

I'm pleased to announce the release of tru_tags v3.6, which fixes most of the outstanding issues that have been reported on the forum (excluding any major feature requests). Please see the releases page for details, but notable items include:

• Added tru_tags_search_result_excerpt to work around a problem with using TXP's search_result_excerpt for tag search pages.
• Added a 404_redirect attribute to tru_tags_handler to allow disabling of the 404 redirect feature. This is necessary when calling tru_tags_handler twice, for example when showing sticky articles followed by non-sticky articles.
• Expanded the tag clouds on the Write page and Extensions page to include future-dated tags and tags from non-searchable sections.
• Significantly improved the performance of tru_tags_from_article on article list pages by removing an unnecessary database query.
• Worked around a few javascript/DOM issues in IE that broke styling of the tags on the Write tab.

Enjoy!

The post is located at
http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=219850#p219850
Via Textpattern CMS Support Forum Mailer.

RT @CERN: So no collisions planned yet. We are not in a hurry with the secrets of the Universe :) Just a short respite for the Higgs boson! #CERN #LHC

Schade :-(. Keine Kollisionen fürs Erste. Muss ich Montag wohl doch wieder zur Arbeit.
Hier gibt übrigens noch den Live-Blog vom CMS-Experiment:

http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/performance/FirstBeam/cms-e-commentary09.htm

Joomla 500 Internal Server Error Fix

I have noticed this cropping up online a lot lately with a lot of people trying to work out what the issue is... here is a quick fix if you find you receive this error on your website...

The root of the problem seems to be located with changes to the .htaccess file on your server and I would guess it is due to SEF URL's. Check your .htaccess file if you have SEF URL's enabled with mod_rewrite. If you do then comment out the following line by adding a # in front of it

Options +FollowSymLinks

Now reload your website in your browser and check if your SEF URL's are still working as before. If they are then you should have fixed the problem as this configuration you commented out was already enabled on your server!

PageLime - Out-of-the-Box CMS for simple sites (free and paid versions)

Visit Pagelime

PageLime is a hosted Content Management System (CMS) for designers, web agencies, and web developers. It allows you to manage text, images, and documents on your site by logging into a web-app that's hosted on our servers. The best part is that it doesn't matter where your site is hosted, it doesn't matter whether you use PHP, Java, or ASP (or no scripting platform), and you don't have to make a single change to your site architecture.

 

Open Source CMS Awards

 

Packt publishing announced the winners of their 2009 Open Source CMS awards recently with Wordpress taking out the prize for Overall Best CMS. Second place saw a tie between Silverstripe and Modx. This was the first time in four years that Wordpress has taken out the award. Great to see Modx also in there which I have recently started using for projects, will have to test out Silverstripe next time.

the big switch: should i ditch wordpress for posterous?

This is all Bob Lalasz's fault. Actually, Robert Scoble deserves a bit of blame as well.

Just as I am about to try to reinvigorate my blogging efforts after the birth of my second son, these guys conspire to make me spend a wekend falling in love with posterous, an innocuous "micro-blogging" platform that makes posting content and shotgun blasting it across a bevvy of social networks a damn dream.

I've had a posterous account for awhile, but haven't used it in months. I originally used it for it's ability to sync with my WordPress account and its myriad of ways to post content -- email, web form, bookmarklet and clever iPhone app.

Unfortunately, when I originally started using posterous there was a glithch in my WordPress installation that caused it to repost posterous entries every hour. (This error also caused the blog to bonk when trying to post from clients like the WordPress iPhone app.)

Installing a plugin on the WordPress side fixed this issue, and this weekend I posted a few test entries to posterous that seamlessly posted to my WordPress blog. Suddenly, through the magic of posterous I'd posted several entries to my blog, something I hadn't managed to do consistently in the last six months on the standard wordpress installation -- even with Scribefire.

Certainly my new-found enthusiasm could be coming from the thrill of playing with some new (or in this case newly rediscovered) tech. If this is the case than that enthusiasm will soon fade and I'll be struggling again to find the motivation to update my blog. But I think I've found something more substantial here. I think I simply connect with the way posterous works.

That said, as I explored posterous over the weekend, I had no illusions that this could become my primary blogging platform. I could never live with a non-unique URL (no matter how many .blogspot successes there are out there) and the palcity of posterous themes meant there was really no chance of having a unique look.

However, what I found after scratching the surface is that posterous does support unique URLs, providing step-by-step instructions for setting them up. Also, users can customize the "clean sheet" theme with colors and header images and advanced users can create their own theme using CSS and upload it to the system. In short, it's easy to make a posterous blog your own. 

So posterous offers dead simple posting -- including email integration, which should not be underestimated -- fairly robust personalization and the ability to instantly cross-post to all major social network. Oh, and it also has plug-and-play Google Analytics and Feedburner integration. Plus, a built-in network of other posterous bloggers and readers provides a decent shot at a reader base.  

But is it really a substitute for a robust platform like WordPress? Well, I think it depends on what you want to do. If you want to run a commercial blog or something you want to SEO to the hilt, then no -- posterous is not for you.

If you want something that's going to stay out of the way while you post content, offers you some solid personalization, analytics and the ability to cross post, then I think you should check it out. After all, it will literally cost you nothing.

As for switching from WordPress to posterous permanently, the jury is still out, but I am strongly leaning toward making the move. I've come to realize that what I want to do on my blog is write, post content and share it with my social networks. Posterous and WordPress both allow me to do that, but posterous rips down the barriers between content and publishing in a way that I haven't experienced before.