Submission by Douglas Paterson

A new award scheme was launched today offering a first prize of $5,000 and the title of best Open Source Content Management System, 2006. Voted for by a panel of independent judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com, the award is designed to recognize and reward outstanding achievement in a high quality and highly competitive marketplace.

There is currently an abundance of premium open source Content Management Systems available to download. Each lays claim to a dedicated team of developers and contributors working tirelessly to improve performance, design and accessibility, all so that it can be downloaded and implemented by its users, for free.

Submission by Rene C. Kiesler

So you've stumbled across them. Open Source CMS systems. And are puzzled. What exactly can they do, how can they help me? Why shouldn't I simply go to a consultant, pay a bit of money and let him/her decide, what to use?

Well, you could of course do that. Or you could inform yourself prior to buying service or doing a site by yourself. I'd like to help you here by providing a collection of some of my favourite phpWebSite installations. You can see there, how they are used, how they look like, how they work.

Submission by Jan

The new international TYPO3 board is available:
www.typo3board.com

Thanks Jan

Submission by Michelle Heizer

Rolla, MO (November 14, 2005) -- Today, the TYPO3 Association has published a maintenance release of the internationally recognized open-source content management application, TYPO3 (http://www.typo3.com), with version 3.8.1.

Submission by Peter Helfer

http://www.cmsinfo.ch will be the swiss ressource of the most common Opensource CMS.

Submission by René C. Kiesler

I've been asked to review a book. It's called Typo3 Enterprise Content Management, it's about Typo3 and it contains a lot of information.

In this article, I'm trying to find out the focus of the book, the target audience and try to write a bit about its content, too.

read the full review.

Submission by Damian Carvill

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the first English language book on TYPO3, the popular and open source content management system. TYPO3 is a feature-rich free content management system with the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems. Written and endorsed by the TYPO3 project team, TYPO3: Enterprise Content Management is the guide for all users of this powerful application.

Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning. With guidance from TYPO3 experts and core developers your journey into learning and mastering TYPO3 will be a smooth one.

While comprehensive and detailed, this book is an easy-to-use and understand introduction to TYPO3. Whether an editor interested in creating and managing content, an administrator who needs to maintain TYPO3 enterprise intranets and extranets, or a developer who needs to extend TYPO3 and integrate it with other systems, this book is all you will need.

More information on TYPO3: Enterprise Content Management from Packt's website.

Submission by Alex Heizer

Rolla, MO February 2, 2005 - TYPO3, the leader in enterprise Open Source content management, has repositioned itself for even greater success with the creation of the TYPO3 Association.In Tirol, Austria, an international congress of 140 leading TYPO3 experts laid down strategies and programming trends for the successful Open Source tool. The path chosen is delineated by new directions for programmers and developers with a clearly defined organization of the Open Source project.

Submission by Reuven Cohen - Freelance TYPO3 Developer

ruv.net TemplaVoila Demo Site
(contains also Autoparser Templates)

http://dev.ruv.net/typo3/
user: admin
pass: password

Feel free to output our template as a t3d file.

Packaged Version
We have packaged up our version of typo3.7rc2 (http://dev.ruv.net/typo3/)
database and templates into a handy file to use when installing your
copy of typo3.7. This will provide you a functional site structure to use
as the basis for building typo3 sites in version 3.7.

The package can be downloaded at:
www.ruv.net/ruvsite/ruvsite_install.tgz

Untar the file and take the ruvsite_7rc2.sql and place it in the typo3conf folder

install this file rather then the database.sql file and you will get a preconfigured template structure using both the templavoila and autoparser methods

then copy the html, images and css files into your fileadmin folder

Make sure you have the autoparser, css styled content and templavoila extensions installed or the default template will not work

everything should just work now

Reuven Cohen
Freelance Typo3 Developer
http://www.ruv.net

Submission by Reuven Cohen - Freelance TYPO3 Developer

ruv.net TemplaVoila Demo Site
(contains also Autoparser Templates)

http://dev.ruv.net/typo3/
user: admin
pass: password