Packt is pleased to announce a new book on designing skins for a MediaWiki website. Written by web designer Richard Carter, MediaWiki Skins Design teaches the users how to customize the appearance of their MediaWiki site by creating custom skins.

Wikis are a great way to collaborate and share knowledge online. MediaWiki is a popular and powerful wiki engine, powering some of the biggest wiki sites in the world – including Wikipedia, the biggest and most famous wiki of all.

This book takes users through customizing their MediaWiki skin. It is full of practical examples of MediaWiki skinning techniques, and provides a clear explanation of how MediaWiki skinning works and the necessary template and CSS customizations required to completely alter MediaWiki's appearance.

pTools today announced that it has further enhanced its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software for Microsoft^® SharePoint by integrating it with MediaRich^® DAM for SharePoint, Equilibrium’s Digital Asset Management software. Organisations can now use pTools ECM to manage valuable image and video assets and to enhance SharePoint deployments across the enterprise.   

pTools integration of MediaRich facilitates flexibility and the rapid deployment necessary for critical digital asset and web content management initiatives, all within the overall SharePoint document collaboration architecture.

Commenting on the partnership, Tom Skinner Managing Director of pTools says: “This partnership with Equilibrium builds on pTools capabilities in image and workflow deployments. By using MediaRich with pTools, customers can deliver image and workflow applications with greater ease and efficiency. This makes video, digital imagery and document image assets work for claims, case management and general web systems available in a way that’s increasingly demanded by business.”

Alexandria, VA - September 2, 2008 Microsoft certified and awarded a GOLD PARTNER Status to Bitrix, Inc, a pioneer in developing Content Management Systems and Portal Solutions. Bitrix's Flagship product - Bitrix Site ManagerTM is an industry class content management system with flavors for businesses right from small to enterprise level.

Bitrix, Inc., a leading developer of content management solutions for global markets, today announced it has been awarded the GOLD CERTIFIED PARTNER status as part of the Microsoft Partner Program*, with competencies in ISV/Software Solutions. This highest level of certification further substantiates Bitrix's expertise on portal solutions and content management applications. As a Gold Certified Partner, Bitrix has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to serve the most demanding of customer problems. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Bitrix is eligible to receive an extended set of benefits, including training and support across the Microsoft Platform. This industry recognition gives Bitrix a competitive advantage in the channel, thereby giving customers more faith while purchasing their solutions.

Alexandria, VA –August 13, 2008-- Bitrix introduces a powerful Media Player, enabling customers to embed an unlimited number of video streams into their Web sites. Bitrix Site Manager is a Web content management system (CMS) that provides stable functionality and security, and promotes cost-effective growth of clients’ Internet projects.

Intending to comply with Web 2.0 standards, Bitrix enriched Bitrix Site Manager with an impressive social networking tool – Media Player. The Media Player enables the user to create portals similar to YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, Metacafe, and other video sharing sites.

Alexandria, VA - June 30, 2008- Bitrix, Inc. is happy to announce the newest release of the world class CMS Bitrix Site Manager 7.0. Bitrix Site Manager is a Web Content Management System (CMS) that provides cost-effective solutions that meet the full promise of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems. CMS Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 is a multilingual platform that is simple for content owners to use and enables developers to build advanced Web sites that are stable and secure.

"Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 unleashes the full promise of CMS for a world-wide audience," said Sergey Rizhikov, CEO of Bitrix, Inc. "We are especially excited by the UTF-8 support. It is a great new feature allowing multilingual Internet projects. Our partners who work in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese among others will do well by offering this functionality in their local markets.

Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 also unleashes the full promise of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems for worldwide audiences by empowering content owners to access well-designed site wizards and templates, add content on the fly, upload graphic images, build blogs, and collaborate. The ability to add new content is critical to boost search engine rankings and build conversations with web audiences.

Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 offers a host of new capabilities.

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WebDeal, which is both a world-class eZ Publish expert and an IBM Business Partner, has now brought together the best of two worlds to the benefit of its enterprise customers.

Large enterprises need to run the best, most stable software solutions, but not even top-notch solutions will work well unless they run on powerful server systems. These server systems must in turn be sustained by an excellent hosting infrastructure.

After performing a battery of quality assurance tests, WebDeal’s technical team can now attest that the combination of eZ Systems’ eZ Publish Content Management System (CMS) and IBM System z hardware is possible on WebDeal’s premium hosting environment. WebDeal’s System z users will be able to run eZ Publish without having to make any changes to their existing server platform.

This announcement further establishes the concept of “Technical Excellence” that has become WebDeal’s trademark.

eZ Publish is eZ Systems’ award-winning, Open Source CMS for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets, while System z is IBM’s mainframe platform for the enterprise. WebDeal is the world’s leading eZ Publish hosting provider, and therefore also the most qualified to unleash all the potential of eZ Publish on mainframe platforms.

LTS Media Ltd, the London based Online Consultancy Firm, has launched
its latest technology prodigy, AQUA Content Management System, on April
9th 2008.

AQUA CMS is a powerful Content Management System perfect for Design
Agencies, PR & Marketing Agencies as well as Communication
Departments, delivering ease of use, great features and comfort in
administering any type of website.

Aqua CMS is incredible easy to use, enabling clients to quickly control
the potential of the various functionalities without the need of any
knowledge of programming. In addition, the system includes a build in
e-commerce solution that easily integrates with PayPal, Protx, Barclays
EPDQ and World Pay. Among the many features, including a very advanced
user management system, Aqua CMS also offers support for Google
Sitemaps and RSS. A lot of interesting and useful elements have been
put in place with Aqua CMS allowing any changes made to be displayed in
real time. Finally, the system provides a powerful Publish Anything
Anywhere engine (meaning that you can put content almost anywhere on
the page). Aqua CMS is a web-based system that allows users and editors
to administer a site from any location as long as they have access to
an Internet browser.