CMS 3 of 24: Alfresco, eggBlog, ConstructrCMS

Alfresco

Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the most experienced team in the industry drawn from Documentum®, Vignette® and Interwoven®. Twenty years of experience drove us to believe that the Enterprise Content Management industry was driven by:

* High Cost — Application driven purchases with a high up-front investment and per user pricing
* High Complexity — Long rollout cycles and complexity resulting in software either not being implemented or used
* Lack of Customer Control — Proprietary control preventing choice and ability to switch to other vendors

For these reasons the vast majority of people do not use ECM systems but instead work with shared drives and email to create, share and store content.

eggBlog

eggBlog is the free php & mysql blog software package, allowing you to create your own online website, journal or weblog (blog) using your own web-space.

Powered by PHP and MySQL, eggBlog has a wide range of features including:

* easy to use web-based administration to add, edit and delete news articles
* easy to use web-based configuration to manage your web site settings
* WYSIWYG easy-to-use text editor for publishing or editing news articles
* download themes to easily change the style, layout and colours of your site
* download additional language files (where available)
* optional forum to allow discussion
* optional comments on news articles to allow feedback on announcements
* optional sticky articles that remain fixed on all pages
* optional tags/categories on articles
* registered users allowed to leave comments on news articles
* registered users allowed to post messages in the forum
* automatic archiving of all news articles
* check for eggBlog updates through the administration panel
* valid HTML 1.1, valid CSS 1.0 and WAI friendly
* valid XML RSS 1.0 feeds for both articles and forum topics

CONSTRUCTR-CMS

ConstructrCMS is a new Open-Source and forever free Content-Management-System written in PHP and MySQL. Visit the SourceForge.net Project-Page or the Constructr CMS-Website.

The Main-Features are:

* Clean Frontend URLs
* Frontend Cache-System
* Multilingual Frontends with indipendent Content-Elements are easy possible
* Backend User-Management and Rights-Management
* Backend Action-Logging
* Available Fullscreen View
* Stealth Login-System with unique Hash via Hyperlink or direct Access (MD5 based)
* Captcha’d Login-Form
* Nested_Sets-Logic for Page-Structuring
* TinyMCE-Integration for easy Content-Editing
* Universal defined Content Elements (Sticky)
* jQuery Integration for simple Workflow the Ajax Way of Style
* File based Template System
* You can use a Frontent that fits Your special Needs (pure PHP and MySQL, Smarty, Flash …)
* Native UTF-8 XML-Output (Flash-Frontend Content Management)
* Asset-Center for Your Uploads
* Integrated Search-Engine for Your Asset´s
* Upload Files via FTP
* Automatic Sync after FTP-Uploads
* Automatic Thumb´s for Image-Uploads (with Cache-System)
* Integrated Shadowbox-Viewer for Your Asset´s
* Customizable Backend-Language (Available: DE, EN, US, CH, AU)
* Live Preview-System for hidden Pages and Content
* Individual 404 Error Page
* Automatic RSS 2.0-Feed for every single Content-Page
* Love the Silk Icons
* Whole System-Size less than 3MB
* Written in PHP and MySQL (OOP)