Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

Microsoft has crafted the latest edition of its Web Content Management platform to make it more appealing as a solution for building public websites. SharePoint has long been the go-to platform for intranets and document management solutions for small to large businesses. But now SharePoint 2013 is poised to make dramatic inroads as a WCM for internet sites.

Hosted CMS technology vendor SetSeed, whose service is designed to allow website providers to retain design control, is introducing a new cloud-based solution in conjunction with Standing Cloud, a cloud services provider. 

Need to add more websites to your growing company or just testing out a few systems to make a short list of new Web CMS candidates? We've gathered up a few highlights from the past year to help nail down a few contenders.

As web content management represents a link between the fast evolving web technology space and the need for large organizations to leverage the web as a communication channel, WCM operates at the junction of very high tension.

A UK government approval system called G-Cloud has given the thumbs up to the TERMINALFOUR Web CMS system for use in all public sector systems.

In what has to be the last acquisition of the year, open source Web CMS vendor DotNetNuke (DNN) has announced that it will buy Australian-based iFinity, which will add a comprehensive URL management solution to the platform.

The history of web content management can be told in many different ways. I chose to go through my own personal archives and tell it by visiting the various different stages of our product CQ that I have been involved with my entire professional career.

In many organizations management practice is about twenty years behind the Web.

It’s that time of year again. The time when we attempt to sum up the waning year and hazard a few hopeful predictions for the one that’s just around the corner.

WordPress 3.5 has been remade to be Retina ready for the iPad, and long sought after media editing tools have been added as well.

One of the terms that many struggle to understand in the Web content management space is “page based CMS.” If you search for “page based CMS” on Google, you get a range of different answers, and much confusion. 

Open source Web CMS provider Hippo is releasing version 7.8 of its flagship web content management product. The new web content management system includes a number of features designed to make 2013 and beyond very personal for Hippo clients and their customers.

It’s no secret that Web Content Management solutions are positioning themselves around the ideas of “experience” and “engagement.” Look at most WCM vendors’ Websites — you can’t miss how they promise to help organizations be more “engaging” or create better “customer experiences.” But to put it simply, what is engaging? What are these experiences?

As another year closes and a new year rises, it is time to make my annual predictions for the web content management industry in 2013. This year, rather than focusing on specific predictions, it is more useful to look at the trends that will impact the industry. 2013 will be a year where the trend-line dictates the future.

Kentico wants to make sure all the beautiful websites its customers build are fully deployable to mobile devices, and it has teamed up with 51Degrees.mobi to make it happen.

The key goals most companies have for their websites are capturing new customers, engaging customers, retaining visitors and driving loyalty. Proper use of website and data structure is crucial to meeting these goals, as explained by Webnodes CTO Ole Gulbrandsen at this week’s Gilbane 2012 Conference in Boston.

Welcome to the November 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Two back-to-back morning keynote sessions at the first day of the Gilbane Conference in Boston featured a wide variety of presenters speaking on an array of information and content management topics. Following is a roundup of the key points each keynote speaker made.

There are a few enhancements to the open source web content management platform, DotNetNuke, with the release of version 7 Wednesday. A little something something for both developers and editors alike.  

In today’s business marketplace, web content is just as often the province of non-technical departments, such as marketing or sales, as it is under the jurisdiction of IT. Yet Web CMS solutions are still often aimed at users who would probably be thrilled at the label of “tech geeks.”