Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:24 am

Joomla 1.6: Better user management

Washington, DC (ip-192.com): Content management system Joomla has released version 1.6. Significant new features include the ability to use template styles and overrides to modify the appearance of pages, nested categories, and a color-coded CSS and HTML editor. A new abstraction layer enables the open source CSS to run on different backend databases. Permissions can [...]

Drupal: Version 7 of CMS released

Atlanta (ip-192.com): After three years of development, Drupal 7 has been released. The open source content management system (CMS) features a new easier-to-use and more intuitive administrative interface that allows user to update modules and themes directly from within the console. A new database abstraction layer offers substantially enhanced performance and scalability options. The blogging [...]

Amazon: Kindle for the Web targets blogs

Seattle (ip-192.com): A Kindle for the Web that allows users to sample digital content through a browser is the newest incarnation of Amazon’s e-book reader. The new version, which is still in beta, allows users to read content without downloading and installing the Kindle e-reader software first. Book samples can be shared with friends via [...]

WordPress: Premium themes and the GPL license

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Developers that extend the functionality of WordPress inherit the GNU General Public License (GPL), developer Matt Mullenweg says. In short, the license states that work derived from GPL licensed work can only be distributed under the same terms. After review by various legal experts, Mullenweg uses the premium WordPress theme Thesis as [...]