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concrete5 Adds eCommerce
Popular open source content management system introduces a versatile, low-cost eCommerce add-on for web site developers and designers.
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concrete5 Sets Sights on Drupal and Joomla with Announcement of General Availability
Creative design and web professionals across the globe are raving about concrete5, the fast, easy and low-cost way to build enterprise-quality web sites..
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SiliconFlorist says we "crush" stuff.
1/6/09
"It’s an elegant open source content management system developed right here in Portland, Oregon, that rivals some other more popular content management systems out there in terms of functionality
—and downright crushes them in terms of ease-of-use."
.. dig the local press...
CMSCritic.com loves c5!
11/11/08
"Concrete5 is an incredible system. It’s refreshingly simple and easy to use yet powerful....
The C5 team doesn’t just think outside the box, they think outside the constraints of what is possible and have come up with an amazing CMS."
MoonGift.jp - A throbbing impression...
11/7/08
"So far, you looked at many CMS, but it has not encountered those where degree of completion is high to here,…So, the extent which can be said it is enormous. This throbbing impression when touching DekiWiki by, is close to those which you are moved."
- via Babel Fish, even more brilliantly.
lots of traffic, must be kind words...
SixRevisions includes us as #2 in a list of 10 CMS's
11/06/08
"Concrete5 is a solid content management system that’s a breeze to use. You can edit a web page live by entering "edit mode", which makes the regions and elements on the web page you are viewing editable."
the article that led to 500 demo accounts in 25 minutes...
SyBoos.jp - ..wish I knew Japanese
11/6/08
"If concrete5 is utilized, you see easily and you can construct the Web sight whose prospering is good."
- via Yahoo's BabelFish (brilliantly, imho)
gaze at crazy character sets...
OpenSourceCMS gives Andy and Franz an Interview
11/05/08
"Chanh:
There is a plethora of open source CMS's available out "there" for people to choose. Why should people consider Concrete5?
Concrete5 team:
Because we're fantastically better than everyone else. And we're completely free..."
WebResourcesDepot is cuter than Mario!
11/2/08
"Concrete5 is a very powerful & open source content management application which has a different approach in how it works.
It enables users to manage websites while browsing it by simply switching to the edit mode (an overlayed screen). This makes anyone who can use a text editing application administer their websites."
cmsCritic.com posts interview with Franz
10/16/08
"All these other apps are GI-Joes and Barbies - great for playing one type of game. We’re Lego’s – go get creative!"
Project of the Month on SourceForge!
10/5/08
"We think websites are kind of like homes; you want a professional to build the bones, but a lot of home owners do great DIY work on their own. We continually push c5 to be a flexible building material for developers, and easy for the eventual site owner to feel comfortable using."
..from 200,000th to #1 in 3 months...
c5 vs Wordpress vs SilverStripe
9/3/08
"Concrete5 is ideal for large organizations with complex user groups and workflow schemas"
Some like it HOT...
8/2/08
"A unique and attractive UI makes it so that Concrete5 will appeal to technical and non-technical users alike, and makes picking up the system easy. Beyond this attractive interface lies a powerful framework..."
...and some sweat when the heat is on.
We're NextGen Baby...
7/20/08
"Concrete5, is a new and fresh open source CMS which promises to fulfill all of these needs. As the concrete studio blog tagline says “Content management is a human right” they mean it."
