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CMS and HTML5 Design Inspiration

June 24th, 2011

Ten Little Monkeys

Selecting the right ecommerce platform can be a difficult task. There are so many possibilities, all with their own quirks, (sometimes bloated) feature sets and workflows for implementation, which is why TradingEye really stands out and Ten Little Monkeys is the CMS site of the month for .Net magazine.
The site sells designer clothing, gifts and accessories for kids, and was designed and developed by Darren Alawi.
“I needed a PHP platform that was highly customisable and allowed me to hand code the Front end”, he explains. Although it is not free to run TradingEye – you will need to purchase a licence – they offer discounts if you buy in bulk, and the support that’s provided makes the cost worth it, says Darren. “The structure of the site was perfect as well, quite similar to WordPress in the way you edit the template files, plus there is a growing community to discuss issues with”. » Read more: CMS and HTML5 Design Inspiration

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Review of 22 Content Management Systems

June 20th, 2011

ELGG

Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. Organizations with networks powered by Elgg include. » Read more: Review of 22 Content Management Systems

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HTML5 and CMS Websites Inspiration

June 9th, 2011

Brizk (CSS)

Brizk is the portfolio of freelance Web Designer Kai Brach. Brach explains that the most recent design of his site is “all about simplicity”. He moved away from watercolour illustrations and complex images towards a design that he felt better represented the work he is interested in. “There’s now more emphasis on typography and responsiveness (media queries for a mobile version) plus i employ a bit of CSS3 code to play with things like navigation”, he says.
Just the right amount of CSS transitions, gradients and opacity effects gives classy finishing touches to this elegant design. ” I use a lot of opacity settings and changes coupled with transition effects, and love how this makes it so easy to increase or decrease the emphasis on certain elements”, says Brach. “It works really well – expecially if you have moving elements on top of a gradient background.” » Read more: HTML5 and CMS Websites Inspiration

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CMS Webdesign Inspiration

May 27th, 2011

Infinvision

Infinvision helps its client build succesfull ventures online. This website has been designed by Pedro Heitor and Aiste Martinaityte, and they selected Joomla as its CMS. “We needed to have three different access levels to the content within that section. – the registered, unregistered and paid. Joomla made it a breeze to set this up and manage easily”.
Egle Karalyte, founder of the company said “We needed our website to allow multiple users to work with it by giving them diiferent acces levels and permissions”, she explains. “Joomla is absolutely free, it has efficient control of users, links, content and files, search-engine friendly URLs, content syndication (RSS), blogs, picture, galleries, archiving facilities enabling the re-use of content and a simple workflow system”. The website’s Library sections were a key factor in them choosing the CMS.