The year 2008 was another great year for CMS Report. In 2008, we posted close to 500 articles to the front page. Below are the ten most read articles that were posted for the year.
Similar to last year, three of the top stories have little to do with content management systems. It seems that there is more interest in gadgets than content management systems! Hopefully CMS Report can help change that.
CMS Wire recent took a look at Technorati's Top 100 blog sites and determined which CMS the sites were using most. They concluded, not surprisingly, that Wordpress was the most popular CMS with 34% of the top sites using the blogging application.
Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second [16%], and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust.
For the second straight year, Packt Publishing has announced Drupal as the recipient of its Overall Open Source CMS Award. Drupal was also the winner this year in the award category for Best PHP Open Source CMS.
Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007.
Joomla! also placed second in the Overall category followed by DotNetNuke for third position.
Drupal was announced the winner in Packt Publishing's 2008 award for Best PHP Based Open Source CMS.
The Award for the best Open Source Content Management System written on a PHP/MySQL platform is today announced as Drupal. Receiving $2,000 as the judges’ and publics favourite, Drupal finishes ahead of Joomla! and CMS Made Simple, who finished on equal points as joint runners up and collect $500 each.
Earlier today, Packt Publishing announced the winners of their 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People Award. The MVP is a new category for Packt's annual Open Source CMS Awards. In this category, "names were put forward by members of the Content Management System's development team and community and represent the exceptional support, guidance, and sheer amount of time that the MVPs have given up to support the development and growth of the respective CMS".
Instead of just copying the winners list from Packt's site, I had hoped to do something different here. I started with a goal to look for each of the MVP's personal blog or project site, I had hoped to find acknowledgments of the award was given by the MVP themselves or by someone else on their behalf. Evidently I started searching a little too early and I only came across mentions of the awards from three four of the projects: Drupal (Earl Miles), Joomla! (Johan Janssens), and XOOPS (Onakazu). Plus... Plone.
Below are some excerpts from or about these open source MVPs. If you are aware of more of the award winners recognizing or being recognized for their contributions...I would appreciate a link to the post. Open source contributors like these MVPs deserve all the recognition we can give them.
Drupal 6.5 and Drupal 5.11 were released yesterday. These new versions of Drupal are maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities. If you take a look at the release notes, you'll find that Drupal's core developers and security teams have been hard at work improving this open source content management system. With all the hard work done for you, it only makes sense to upgrade your Drupal site today (yes, we're running Drupal 6.5).
Details and download links can be found at Drupal.org.
Smashing Magazine has posted a couple articles to help web developers and designers with their Wordpress and Drupal sites. Some great suggestions and resources are listed in these articles.
The articles don't include everything, but it's a wonderful start for those just beginning to learn about Drupal or Wordpress. Link found via Nick Lewis' blog.
This Drupal site of mine has taken quite a bit of beating the past couple weeks. While Mollom has been protecting this site well enough from the comment spammers, it isn't designed to prevent the bots from trying to ping me so much. It has been an incredible experience to see the bots try to open every possible URL and directory here at CMSReport.com. But probably the real stress on the site has been my testing of numerous contributed modules that are still under development. Probably using a production server to test new modules isn't the smartest thing for anyone to do, but it does provide a nice adrenaline rush from time to time.
To make a long story short, I'm testing a number of ways I can use a Web content management system more efficiently to run this site. I also want to do some restructuring of the site so that I have more flexibility in the look and feel of the site as well as how the content is delivered. For the most part, I'll be using Pathauto, Views, Panels, and one of the aggregation modules. I'm currently testing the FeedAPI module for aggregation, but none of the aggregation related modules really do what I want them to do. I'll put up a site recipe in the next month or two on the modules I finally settle on to support this site.
Now it is time for me to go. Evidently, one of the modules I've installed is causing some cron issues. Am I having fun, yet? Yes, I am.
Augustana College, a United States college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is using Drupal. According to Augustana's Web Editor the site was developed by Tim Broeker of Electric Jet using Drupal 5. Electric Pulp, a local Sioux Falls company, also contributed to the project by doing the design and CSS work.
I don't think I've ever met Tim Broeker, but what is interesting about this Drupal site developer is that he also has a Joomla! Core Team connection. Yes indeed, open source does matter.
Updated Sep 8 2008 per comments at CMSReport.com
One of the biggest unknowns for those of us that live in the north central United States...how many Drupal enthusiasts are there in our area? Not knowing the answer to this question has been bothering me. I have also been a little disturbed seeing the map so empty of a Drupal user group for my part of the region. So I'm hoping those of you that are Drupal users from South Dakota and bordering areas will join me and others in the new South Dakota Drupal