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Image:Icon_Open_Source_40px.png Open Source Software

This page contains a list of Open Source Software projects for web servers. This includes info about all Content Management Systems (CMS) software and online services I've given a Test Drive.

Contents

Software Sections

CMS Watch List

All the CMS's which don't currently work for me but are worth keeping an eye on.

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Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Blogs and Portals

Content Management Software for managing a Blog or Portal website.

AIOCP

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Alfresco CMS

  • Website — http://www.alfresco.com/
  • Comments — Looks bit proprietary. Aimed to get you started then pay for more features. Needs desktop client to work. Not suitable.

Amazon Author's Blogs

Apache Lenya

AtLeap CMS

AudioBlogger

Free unlimited audio posts from any phone to your Blogger blog (long distance charges may apply). Each entry limited to 5 minutes.

  • URL — http://www.audioblogger.com
  • Type — phone blog
  • Rating — unknow
  • Cost — free, USA call
  • Comments — Sounds great but only available in USA at present. Look for alternative UK supplier.

Automne

  • Website — http://www.automne.ws
  • Comments — Looks interesting, but French docs for now. Higly rated for ease of use, but looks commercial for extras.

b2evolution

  • Version — 1.8.2 installed
  • Website — http://plugins.b2evolution.net
  • Comments — Excellent interface and very good for single or multi blog. Doesn't look flexible enough to run entire website and very few extension modules. cubittartists.org Fantastico Installation removed.

Bebo

Bebo is the next generation social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out. Bebo is the online community allowing you to share address book, photos and blogs.

  • URL — http://www.bebo.com
  • Type — blog, address book, photos
  • Rating — good
  • Cost — Free with ads
  • Comments — Mainly a peer-to-peer friends and family networking site. Must invite users to view your blog and photos. US based and free.

Bcoos

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Bitweaver

  • Version — R 1.3.1
  • Website — http://www.bitweaver.org
  • Comments — Just didn't get it. Functionality seemed massive, but too much and couldn't quickly understand the process. cubittartists.org Fantastico Installation removed.

Blogger

Start an Online Diary in 5 minutes. No HTML needed. Free From Blogger! A Google company.

  • URL — http://www.blogger.com
  • Type — blog
  • Comments — Simple and easy to use. MS Word-like editor with fonts, insert image links AND upload with layout left/right/centre, url links. Easy to use tools plus HTML editor. Can update via Email, Mobile SMS or PicText, phone call (USA only).
  • Rating — excellent
  • Cost — free with ads, with adsense revenue share if successful

Blogit

Pay site to support the bloggers who participate in the group. Everyone who uses the site pays subscription and cash is divided up according to who gets the most reads.

  • URL — http://www.blogit.com
  • Type — blog
  • Cost — £5.95 per month
  • Comments — Marketplace with paid subscriptions only. Rather ugly and not worth trying out.

Bloop Diary

Get your own free online diary or online journal to share your thoughts, memories, photos, and opinions with a world wide community.

Blosxom

Blosxom (pronounced "blossom") is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind. Open Source.

  • URL — http://www.blosxom.com/
  • Type — portal
  • Cost — free, open source
  • Comments — Installed CGI script on dansalmon.info.

Blurty

Community site designed for adults, based on livejournal source code. Future plans are to add paid accounts with additional features in addition to the free.

  • URL — http://www.blurty.com
  • Type — community portal
  • Cost — free
  • Comments — rather ugly and windows client must be installed.

BoastMachine

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Bricolage CMS

Campsite CMS

  • Website — http://www.campware.org
  • Comments — Campsite CMS, Campcaster Radio, Cream Customer Relations, Dream Newspaper Distribution. Need rootserver access to install

Clever Copy

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CMS Made Simple

  • Version — 1.0.2 installed
  • Website — http://cmsmadesimple.org
  • Type — portal
  • Cost — free, open source
  • Comments — Nice easy to use interface. One of the best traditional. Worth keeping eye on, but Javascript error problems make it impossible to use. Try again later.
  • Rating — 8/10
  • Error — the xajax Javascript file could not be included. Perhaps the URL is incorrect? URL: ../lib/xajax/xajax_js/xajax.js.
  • Error — CMSMS 1.0.2, CMSMailer 1.73.10, FrontEndUser 1.1.1, and SelfRegistration

ContentNow

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Contenido CMS

  • Website — http://www.contenido.org
  • Comments — Worth a look. Comes with PDF Manual. German base language + English & Dutch. Commercial application which cannot be rebranded.

CuteNews

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Daisy

Dear Diary

DearDiary.Net is a safe, free place to store your online diary, also known as a journal or weblog (blog)

DiaryLand

DiaryLand.com is a fun, free service where you can get your own web diary that you update using your web browser!

  • URL — http://www.diaryland.com/
  • Type — blog
  • Comments — Good simple and easy to use. Text only for free, though can reference images. Can add images with paid service. Can reference external media. Rather basic editor. Can customise with HTML. Can have single page per entry or blog multiple entries per page style.
  • Rating — good
  • Cost — Free no ads, paid no ads + photos

DinamikCMS

Doop

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Dotclear

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DotNetNuke (DNN)

  • Website — http://www.dotnetnuke.com
  • Comments — Modular approach to content articles! Full user registration! Custom image sizes! Only 31 modules. Only for Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET) platform. Sad.

Dragonfly CMS

  • Version — 9.0.6.1
  • Website — http://www.cpgnuke.com
  • Comments — Based on phpNuke. Looks about the same as all the others.

Drupal

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.drupal.org
  • Comments — Worth a try. Good interface and inuitive to use. Seems to only support left/right menu. Unsure of custom themes. No special characters. Odd with images and external files.

e107

  • Version — 0.7.7 installed
  • Website — http://www.e107.org
  • Website — http://www.e107coders.org
  • Type — portal
  • Cost — free, open source
  • Comments — Simple and well designed interfaces. Themes require PHP coding but did find a good tutorial. Module install didn't work for me. Very good, but seems difficult to customise some components. cubittartists.org Installation removed.

EasyJournal

Service provides personalized website address, private messages, and privacy passcodes.

  • URL — http://www.easyjournal.com/
  • Type — blog
  • Cost — free standard — $25 per year pro
  • Comments — Good interface and easy to use but only add images with Pro version. Can add referenced images and url links but have to HTML code. Do like the layout though.
  • Rating — 7/10 good

Easyportal

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Eggblog

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Elxis

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Etomite

Evo-Themez

Exponent CMS

ExV2

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EyeOS

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eZ Publish

  • Website — Version: www.ez.no
  • Comments — Norwegian source. Worth a look. Lots of docs. Has upgrade to pro versions starting at $2700. Doesn't work with PHP version 5! Very professional and great multi-language support. Bit difficult to modify though. Seems to want to run on dedicated web server, and not shared hosting environment!

Facebook

The biggest in the UK and one of the biggest on the planet!

  • URL — http://www.facebook.com/
  • Type — community blog
  • Cost — free
  • Comments — really must give this a try, but don't really want to share my life with the world!

Friendster

An online community that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.

  • URL — http://www.friendster.com
  • Type — blog, file sharing, photos
  • Cost — free
  • Comments — Dating and friendships site. Not suitable for anything else.

Fundanemt

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FuzzyLime

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Geeklog

  • Version — 1.4.0sr5-1 (Fantastico 1.4.0sr5-1)
  • Website — www.geeklog.net
  • Comments — Too techie, not customisable.

GuppY

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Hippo

Hyperic

  • Website — http://www.hyperic.com/
  • Comments — A simpler approach to systems management, it builds search into systems management. Strong community of users, and JBoss, MuleSource, and MySQL have purchased licenses to include Hyperic in their own products. Worth a look.

iGaming CMS

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JAF CMS

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Japs

Jaws

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.jaws-project.com/
  • Comments — Very nice interface! Excellent design and way easy to use. Only catch is a bit new and featureless. No WYSIWYG. No insert images, gallery only. Comes pre-installed with quite a few Gadgets & Themes, but not much beyond that. Great if doing site with only blog and gallery. So easy to use. Simplest layout and themes changes I've found. Very nice, but needs needs Images Upload, Contact form. Looks great but just too simple to get anything done with it.
  • Rating — 8/10. Keep Looking Back.

Joomla

  • Version — 1.0.11
  • Website — http://www.joomla.org
  • Type — portal, open source
  • Cost — free
  • Comments — Seems the best thus far. Found great documentation which helped big time. Test drive cont. Fantastico installation.

Jupiter CMS

Liferay CMS

LifeType

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LiveJournal (Six Apart)

LiveJournal is one of the web's largest online communities, organized around personal journals. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.

  • URL — http://www.livejournal.com
  • Type — blog, journal, diary
  • Comments — ugly and really not a nice experience. Hosted solution which is ok looking but lots of ads.
  • Rating — ok, but ugly and full of intrusive ads.
  • Cost — Free with ads, Paid no ads.

Loudblog

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Magnolia

  • Website — http://www.magnolia.info
  • Comments — Community Edition free. Business & Enterprise editions £9990/year. Looks very well designed, but is Java application. Folder and files motif for all editing functions. Worth looking at, but unsure if suitable.

Mambo

  • Version — 4.6.1
  • Website — http://www.mambo-foundation.org
  • Website — http://mamboxchange.com
  • Comments — One of biggest. Professional looking. Ok, but a bit confused and not enough control. Very poorly organised support sites. Have to remember special codes to insert images.

Mephisto

Metadot

MDPro

Midgard

MobileBlogger

Using Blogger Mobile is easy: Snap a photo and write some text on your mobile ... When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com

MODx

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.modxcms.com
  • Login — dsalmon | password1 | dan.salmon@blueyonder.co.uk
  • Comments — Good support site. Full contact details. Great user management. Everything excellent, but need heafty PHP skills to manage. Has Norsk language option. When uninstalled this did actual damage to my domain!
  • Rating — 8/10 at first, but then it buggered my domain!

MODx Notes

Manager Roles & Groups -- http://modxcms.com/manager-roles-groups.html Roles - defines permissions for site admin, WHAT user can do

Administrator -- Access Level 1: Full access to site -- Dan (only 1 allowed)
Designer -- Access Level 2: Create, edit and delete any content, plus
design templates -- Andy (andychild | 99YPBpn4)
Gallery Editor -- Access Level 3: Create, edit and delete gallery
content -- Bettinna (manager | SGfWUxPm)
Studio Editor - Access Level 4: Create, edit and delete studio
content -- all artists -- Paul Hamlyn (paulhamlyn | nourse)

Document Groups -- defines group of docs to be edited, WHICH documents

Site Admin Pages
Gallery Pages
Studio Holders Pages
Paul Hamlyn
Support

User Groups - collection of users to access same documents

Gallery Staff -- Manager, Curator
Studio Holders -- all artists
Support Staff -- Dan, Andy

Note -- a user can belong to any number of User Groups, but can be assigned to only one Role.

Terminology Notes

Content is published in Main Content Area or Template Variables (side/top/bot)
Chunks - reusable bits of HTML info such as your contact details.
Snippets - functional items such as menu bars, search...
Upload Content to 'assets' folder
MODx Tags -- http://modxcms.com/modx-tags.html

MovableType (Six Apart)

Movable Type is the premier blogging and content management platform for professional bloggers and medium and small businesses.

My Dear Diary

MyDearDiary.com allows users to take a look into the personal lives of others by reading their personal diaries.

My Diary

Everyone can have their free personal diary or journal at my-diary.org - Choose to have your diary private or public.

  • URL — http://www.my-diary.org
  • Type — blog
  • Comments — ok, but not very customisable. Very basic editing tools. UGLY.
  • Rating — awful

MySource Matrix

  • Website — http://matrix.squiz.co.uk
  • Comments — Supported by WorldWide agency. Modular content approach. Windows looking file/folder interface. Looks interesting. Great support site with lots of manuals for download. Worth a look. Must use PostgreSQL database. Looks impressive, but requires Core access to install!

MySpace

  • URL — http://www.myspace.com
  • Type — blogs, profiles, groups, photos, MP3s, videos, e-mail
  • Cost — free
  • Comments — really must give this a go some day...

Netious

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Nucleus CMS

  • Version — 3.24
  • Website — http://www.nucleuscms.org/
  • Comments — OK design interface, but looks more for blog than full cms. Loads of plugins and skins. Much more blog than full site. Didn't really do it for me. Simple and easy to use but only for single blogs. Not able to add other pages. Updating blog a bit too complex.

OneCMS

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Open Diary

Open Diary is an online diary community. It is the oldest such community on the internet with over 450,000 diaries.

  • URL — http://www.opendiary.com
  • Type — blog, photos, rss,
  • Comments — Looks easy to customise. Advance Word-like text editor with fonts, spell check, insert url links, image references, table. Includes 'paste from Word' function to leave formatting intact. Also html source editor for HTML touchups Private or pulic or friends only. Hosted solution which is on the ugly side and chock full of ads!
  • Rating — good
  • Cost — free with ads, paid no ads
  • My URL — http://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=D674905

Ovidentia

Papoo

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Pedalo

Web design & web development agency based in Chiswick, London, UK offering creative website design, print and graphic design and web marketing.

  • URL — http://www.pedalo.co.uk
  • Type — blog
  • Cost — paid service
  • Comments — web design and web development agency for authors.

Pheap

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PHP-Fusion

PHP-Nuke

  • Version — 7.8 and 7.9
  • Website — http://www.phpnuke.org
  • Comments — Don't like the look of it. Fantastico install.

phpCMS

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phpComasy

phpWCMS

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.phpwcms.de
  • Comments — use for a few websites, but backend was too difficult for end users. Decided too techie for further use. Keep watching as may get better.

phpWebSite

  • Version — 0.10.2
  • Comments — Very logical and easy to use interface. Bit basic looking but seems to do most things. Still finding contact, mailing lists and such difficult to use.

PHPX

Pivot

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Plone

  • Version — 0.7.7
  • Website — http://www.plone.org
  • Comments — Very simple and easy to use interface. Good user management. Drawback is that you have to install on specialised server.

Plone Notes

To start Plone, issue the following command in a Terminal window: 

 sudo /Applications/Plone-2.5.1/Instance/bin/zopectl start

To stop Plone, issue the following command in a Terminal window: 

 sudo /Applications/Plone-2.5.1/Instance/bin/zopectl stop

Need to remove this but not quite sure how as have to do through Unix Terminal!

Plume CMS

pMachine Free

Post-Nuke

  • Website — http://http://www.postnuke.com/
  • Comments — Ok interface, but difficult to modify content and not very user friendly management of pages, etc.

ReloadCMS

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RunCMS

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sBlog

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Serendipity

  • Website — http://www.s9y.org/
  • Comments — Worth a look. Really is just a blog package. Quite good and easy to use, but probably need to add loads of modules to make it work. Why bother with all that fuss?

SilverStripe

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SimplePHPBlog

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Simplog

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Siteframe

Six Apart

Six Apart Professional Network consists of Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, LiveJournal community software and Vox teen blogging.

  • URL — http://www.sixapart.com
  • Type — blog, photo blog
  • Cost — free or paid
  • Comments — see TypePad, LiveJournal, Moveable Type, Vox

sNews | Solucija

  • Website — http://www.solucija.com
  • Comments — Amazingly small single file CMS. Needs complext DBase setup to install though. Amazing simplicity. For a blog it's about as zen as zen gets. Need pretty good PHP skills to add functionality though.
  • Rating — 7/10 stars for very simple scripting!

SPIP

  • Website — http://www.spip.net
  • Comments — Way ugly and designed for specific magazine only. Tested version 1.9.1.

Textpattern

Tiki CMS/Groupware

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ToendaCMS

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TransLucid

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TypePad (Six Apart)

The premier blogging service for professionals and small business.

  • URL — http://www.TypePad.com
  • Type — full blog
  • Cost — $5/month for TypePad Basic - one blog on their domain, pre-made templates only. 100MB storage, 2GB bandwidth per month.
  • Cost — $9/month for TypePad Plus - up to three blogs on own domains, some design control. 500MB storage, 5GB bandwidth per month.
  • Cost — $15/month for TypePad Pro - unlimited blogs on own domains, collaborative blogs, complete control of design. 1GB storage, 10GB bandwidth per month.
  • Comments — Word type editor & HTML editor. Auto-load and resize images and files. Auto-add urls and email addresses. Future scheduling. Mobile updates (limited models). Also, export facility. Well thought-out with great Secret Email feature. Commercial hosted solution where you have to pay to play, but can cancel before paid anything.
  • My URL — http://dansalmon.typepad.com
  • My URL — http://dansalmon.typepad.com/photos/simons_birthday/

Typo3

  • Website — http://www.typo3.org
  • Comments — Professional and popular but I find user interface very confusing. Tiny little icons and I can't for the life of me get the site to display!

Typolight

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V2 CMS

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Vox (Six Apart)

Free journal and blog.

  • URL — http://www.vox.com
  • Type — blog photo share
  • Rating — excllent
  • Cost — free or $49.95/year pro
  • Comments — Excellent but really only for personal sites. Auto update with Flickr and great editor. Especially like ability to add favourite records, film, books and such through Amazon. Defo recommend for kids.
  • My URL — http://dansalmon.vox.com

WB News

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WebGUI

Website Baker

Wheatblog

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Wordpress

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Selected Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.wordpress.org
  • About — An easy and powerful way to start blogging.
  • Install Guide — http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
  • Comments — excellent simple tools. Like link manager, drag and drop sidebar manager. Ability to build multiple about (i.e. a website!) pages. Best of the bunch. Can be hosted or download to install. Fantastico install.
  • Rating — 9/10 excellent
  • Cost — free — custom designs $15/month — free to intall on own server.
  • Fishcakes Wiki — see WordPress page for more info.

WikyBlog

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Xaraya

XOOPS

  • Website — http://www.xoops.org
  • Comments — Just can't get it to build a simple website. Too much need for add-on modules and such.

YACS

YouTube

YouTube is a social newtworking Web site that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips.

  • URL — http://www.youtube.com
  • Type — video sharing
  • Cost — free
  • Comments — can't believe how well they do all of this. Quite ugly, but you get there in the end.

Zomplog

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Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Bug Tracking and Software Management

Bugzilla

  • Website — http://www.bugzilla.org
  • Type — bug tracking
  • Comments — Bug tracking system. Looks great but seem to need command line to install so probably not for me. Tested version 3.3.

Flyspray

  • Website — http://www.flyspray.org/
  • Type — bug tracking
  • Comments — open source bug tracking software. Used by poMMo.

Trac

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://trac.edgewall.org/
  • Type — integrated subversion, bug tracking and wiki
  • Comments — Open Source subversion and software tracking system. Very techie to install but must give it a try as so many Open Source projects seem to use it.

phpMyAdmin

Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png e-Commerce

cpCommerce

Opencart

osc2nuke

osCMax

osCommerce

phpShop

ZenCart

Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png e-Learning

ATutor

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Claroline

ClaSS

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Docebo suite

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Dokeos

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Interact

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Moodle

  • Website — http://moodle.org
  • Comments — Worth a look. Course management software.

SiteAtSchool

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Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Email and Mailing Lists

phpList

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Selected Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.phplist.com
  • About — phplist is an open-source newsletter manager.
  • Comments — very complete and fairly easy to use with ok interface and support for MIME emails plus customisable fields. Includes bounce processing. Currently used for Cubitt Gallery and Matt's Gallery mailing lists.

poMMo

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Selected Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://pommo.org
  • About — poMMo is versatile mass mailing software.
  • Comments — excellent and easy to use with very nice interface and support for MIME emails plus customisable fields. Only catch is no bounce processing. Currently used for Cubitt Gallery mailing list.

Upgrading poMMo

In general, upgrading poMMo is a straight forward process. After copying the new files over the old, visit poMMo. It will will detect a version mismatch and direct you to a web based upgrade script which handles updating the database and other information.

To upgrade poMMo, follow these steps.

1. Check for any upgrade bulletins related to the new version.

2. Backup your database (just in case anything goes terribly wrong).

a. Login to the Adept Control Panel.
b. Under Databases, click myPHP Admin.
c. Use the drop-down Databases menu to select _pommo.
d. Click on Export.
e. Use the default settings, but tick the Save as file box and tick the gzipped radio button.
f. Click Go to export file.
g. Add the date prefix (2007_06_22_) and save to the folder: 
mailout/

3. Login to PoMMO and export your subscribers to a CSV file.

4. Add the date prefix (2007_06_22_) and save to the folder: 

mailout/

5. Logout of PoMMO.

6. Put up the Mailing List Maintenace page by renaming: 

mailinglist/index.html to index_BAK.html
mailinglist/index_maint.html to index.html

7. Copy the following folder to your local computer for backup: 

mailinglist/

8. Delete the contents of the following folder from the webserver (DO NOT delete the file index.html!): 

mailinglist/

9. Copy the new version of poMMo to the webserver folder: 

mailinglist/

10. Change the permissions on the following folder to 777: 

mailinglist/cache/

11. Restore the original Configuration File to the webserver: 

mailinglist/config.php

12. Restore the following Cubitt Themes files to the webserver.: 

mailinglist/themes/default/inc/mailing.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/inc/messages.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/inc/user.footer.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/inc/user.header.tpl

mailinglist/themes/default/subscribe/form.subscribe.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/subscribe/form.update.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/subscribe/subscribe.tpl

mailinglist/themes/default/user/activate.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/user/confirm.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/user/login.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/user/pending.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/user/process.tpl
mailinglist/themes/default/user/update.tpl

mailinglist/themes/shared/css/cubitt.mailing.css
mailinglist/themes/shared/css/default.user.css

13. Remove the Mailing List Maintenace page by renaming: 

mailinglist/index.html to index_maint.html
mailinglist/index_BAK.html to index.html

14. Visit your poMMo installation from a web browser to complete the install process.

RoundCube Webmail

JXplorer Ldap Browser

Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Document Management

Knowledge Tree

Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Forums, Bulletin Boards and FAQs

bbPress

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Beehive

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DeluxeBB

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FUDForum

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IceBB

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Mercury

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miniBB

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MyBB

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MyTopix

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OvBB

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Phorum

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phpBB - php Bulliten Board

PunBB

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phpMyFAQ

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Selected Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.phpmyfaq.de
  • Type — FAQ system
  • Comments — very easy to install, use and configure. With revisions, users and groups, RSS, LDAP support, multi-language, and more!
  • Documentation — phpmyfaq.de/dokumentation...
  • Fishcakes Wiki — see PhpMyFAQ page for more info.

QuickSilver

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SMF

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UNB

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UseBB

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Vanilla

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W-Agora

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XMB

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Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Genealogy

This category is for Genealogy, family history and such.

PhpGedView

  • Website — http://www.phpgedview.net
  • Comments — genealogy CMS with editing capabilities, privacy functions, and supports multimedia like photos and document images.


Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Groupware and Customer Relationship Management

This category is for Project Management (PMS), Time Management (TMS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRMS) software.

Achievo Time Management System | Time Management System

  • Website — http://www.achievo.org
  • Comments — Looks promising. Ok, but not great user interface and bit clunky on some things. Rather byzantine structure.

ActiveCollab

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website: http://www.activecollab.com
  • Comments — good groupware and time management software. Installed and used for a bit, but not sure now.
  • Fishcakes Wiki — see ActiveCollab page for more info.

ClientExec

ClientExec Notes

  • Customizing the pdf invoice — to format the PDF invoice edit /classes/PDFInvoice.php. To add a logo to the invoice upload the file /images/invoicelogo.jpg.

cPanel

cPanel RV Skin Manager

  • http://www.rvskin.com
  • Type — cPanel Add-on which allows you to customise the cPanel and Webmail Interface
  • Comments — not too keen as never seems to make the changes permanent...

Web Host Manager

  • http://www.cpanel.net/docs/whm/
  • Type — cPanel Add-on which allows you to customise the cPanel and Webmail Interface
  • Comments — excellent over-manager for all the domains on my account.

dotProject

  • Website — tbd

eGroupWare

  • Website — tbd

eTicket

Modern Bill

  • Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png CMS Watch List Image:Icon Stuff 20px.png
  • Website — http://www.modernbill.com/
  • Type — Customer Relationship and Web Hosting management software
  • Cost — $24.95/month
  • Comments — looks very good, but bit pricey for my needs just now. Look into at later date

More.Groupware

  • Website — tbd

phpGroupWare

  • Website — tbd

PHProjekt

  • Website — tbd

Shockoe

  • Website — http://time.shockoe.com/
  • Comments — free for basics including billing, but $10/month plus for more advanced features. Site seems a bit slow, but does have Mac Widget I need to try out! Very nice really but only seems to bill in US$.

Streber

  • Website — tbd

WebCollab

  • Website — tbd

WHM AutoPilot

  • Website — http://www.whmautopilot.com/
  • Type — Customer Relationship and Web Hosting management software
  • Cost — $19.95/month. Free with RZ account.
  • Comments — looks ok, but wasn't able to deal well with multiple currencies.

Image:Icon_Open_Source_20px.png Image Galleries and Photo Galleries

4Images

  • Website —

BloggerBot Photo Sharing

BloggerBot will automatically resize your JPG pictures, add your captions and automatically be added to your friends list via Instant Messaging.

  • URL — http://www.hello.com/how_bloggerbot_works.php
  • Type — photo share
  • Comments: PC only. Great! Very easy to use and automatically updates your page. Must have google & gmail accounts. Bit complicated to start with but quite good in general. Also free Picasa image edit software. BloggerBlot - photos - http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42365
  • Rating — good
  • Email Posting to Blogger — send email (computer or mobile) directly to your blog. Accepts TEXT only (ascii or HTML) without pics. Can send media links via MIME email but buggers up page formatting.
See — http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41452
Example Mobile Blog - http://usroadtrip2005.blogspot.com/
Example Photo Blog - http://shellendotcomphotos.blogspot.com/

Coppermine

  • Website —

Flickr Photo Sharing

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world and securely.

  • URL — http://flickr.com/
  • Type — photo share
  • Comments — Web tools and Application software. Must have Yahoo account. Pretty good but no way to auto-update blog.
  • Rating — good
  • Cost — free
  • My URL —