Ephox News & Articles

Ephox (news, site) is still playing around with TinyMCE, this time with the release of version 3.4.1, a tiny step up from the Version 3.4 Beta 3 that it released in February and which focused on accessibility.

Ephox (news, site) has added some extra code to the open source TinyMCE editor project to help users meet Web accessibility guidelines.

Australian firm Elcom (news, site) recently expanded into the North American market, adding analytics and mobile capability to its CommunityManager.NET release. Clients and customers have reason to rejoice, with the release of the latest version of CommunityManager.NET, now at version 7.3.

Ephox (news, site) began 2010 with an upgrade of EditLive to v7.0. As 2010 came to a close, EditLive was bumped up yet again to v7.5. This year, Ephox is focusing on user experience by upgrading its professional services -- if you can upgrade services that is -- and adding a new plugin for a better user experience with TinyMCE.

Ephox (news, site) unveils the latest update to its EditLive tool for both professionals and enterprises who write for the Web.

The release of IBM  (news, site) Lotus Web Content Management v7 occurred somewhat quietly behind the release of its new Customer Experience Suite. But it did arrive just the same and here's a glance at what's new.

If you missed the recent upgrade to Ephox’s (news, site) web reporting tool WebRadar 2.0 then you will have a chance to catch up with it and get some kind of idea where it’s going at the current Annual Atech xChange conference.

Ephox (news, site) is moving along with its recent acquisition of WebRadar, as the company releases the next version 2.0 of this web production experience and web content intelligence tool -- with special nods to IBM Lotus Web Content Management users.

At this year's EPiServer Partner Summit -- running today through June 6th -- Ephox (news, site) will be discussing their new online authoring capabilities for EPiSerer CMS. EditLive! claims to bring the power of traditional word processing to non-techies, while simultaneously enhancing productivity and website quality.  

One of the most predominant online text editors on the market -- the open source JavaScript WYSIWYG TinyMCE Editor -- will be offered under a commercial license and with enterprise support options thanks to the partnership between Ephox (news, site) and Moxiecode, the developers of this editor.

In the past three months both EPiServer CMS (news, site) and Ephox EditLive! (news, site) have been upgraded -- EPiServer CMS to version 6 and EditLive! to version 7.0. Today the two have been integrated so EPiServer CMS users will be now able to use EditLive!

Ephox (news, site) is apparently no longer content with providing just editing solutions that plug in to a variety of Web CMS's. They've just acquired a product line that adds web content intelligence to the mix.

Early last year, IBM (news, site) integrated Ephox’s (news, site) authoring tool EditLive into Lotus Quickr and Lotus Web Content Management. Now, a year later and just before Lotusphere 2010, Ephox has announced that it has upgraded EditLive! with a new autosave function, templating abilities and context based collaboration.

Happy 10th birthday Ephox (news, site)! 'Happy' being extra appropriate, as the company is up an impressive 91% in revenue compared to this time last year according to the Q3 numbers released this week.

The news follows a strong 2009 for the online authoring software providers whose flagship product, EditLive!, saw more than US$ 5 million in sales over the last 12 months. A handful of enterprise partnerships with big names like IBM and Open Text also nudged them in the right direction, as well as notable recognition from various sources.

Ephox reached number 755 in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies in America (with a 383% growth for the three-year period ended 2009) and the Silicon Valley Business Journal ranked them number 14 on the "Fast Private" list for the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley.

"Despite the challenging economic environment, 2009 has been very strong for Ephox," said Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox. "By partnering with the top content management vendors, we've been able to help the world's best brands and governments build web sites and intranets that are more effective than ever.

The hardest part of writing web content is making it standards compliant to allow all visitors to use your site and for those with mobile devices to view it properly. The latest version of Ephox's (news, site) EditLive! allows even non-technical users to create standards-compliant content, accessible to all.