Getting a designer to make your promotions can cost a lot. Especially when you are a small company or one-man-show corporation, it can really hurt the budget. Promometer allows you to use a simple web-based system to manage promotions on your website. That means that you do not have to rely on the web designer.

Promometer offers two different options for creating promotions. You can use either the Promotion Editor to create promotions based on our library of “themes”, or the image uploader to upload your own graphics that you turn into promotions. The possibilities are endless.

When you create a promotion with Promometer, you have the ability to tell the Promotion Editor the URL of a page that you would like that promotion to display on. You can also tell it to display on all pages that contain a portion of a URL. If you do not define specific URLs for the promotion, it will display on all of the pages that contain your configuration code. Inactive promotions will not be displayed on any of the pages.

Activating or deactivating your promotion is instant. The control to that are a simple checkbox tick and the “Save This Promotion” button. Easy. This allows you to keep the promotional content on your website timely and pertinent.

Promometer is currently running under BETA, which means you get to use it for free. In the near future, it’ll cost between $15 (for a personal site) and $250 (for the full suite of tools and privacy options) per month. So, try it and see for yourself the benefits that it could bring to you and your company.

Skeletonz is a new content management system (CMS) based on Python. It differs from others by being simple, but yet very powerful and extensible. If you need a simple system that you and your users are going love then Skeletonz might be the solution you are looking for. Its features are:

You can check out its demo HERE! Skeletonz current version number is 1.0 beta. To see how to install Skeletonz , please check out the install guide.

MODx is 100% buzzword compliant, and makes child’s play of building content managed sites with validating, accessible CSS layouts – hence Ajax CMS. It empowers its users to build engaging “Web 2.0″ sites today, with its pre-integrated Scriptaculous and Prototype libraries. If you’re a CSS designer or Ajax aficionado, this is the CMS for you; and if you like what you see today, you’ll love what’s coming.

Techies call MODx a Content Management Framework (”CMF“): equal parts custom web app builder and Content Management System (”CMS“). With a flexible API and a robust event override system, MODx makes building engaging web projects straightforward — or changing core functionality without hacking the core code possible. Custom tweaks won’t leave you pulling out your hair when it’s time to upgrade.

Not only does MODx help you build sites quickly, but it also is both robust and simple. As far as end-users know, MODx is just an easy-to-use online application; for developers there’s freely available resources and a fantastic end-user community.

On the business and technical end of things, MODx is licensed as a GPL project, which translates into free for anyone to use. It’s built in PHP, uses a MySQL database backend and runs on pretty much any version of either released in the last few years. For web servers, it’ll work with either Apache or IIS. Its Control Panel, or Manager if you prefer, runs on pretty much any modern browser, including Safari. It also allows you to quickly leverage the latest rage of AJAX/Web 2.0 technologies. If you want to learn more, just peek at the features.

WebGUI (pronounced web-gooey) is one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS) available today. It is downloaded over 5,000 times per month and is in use as an Intranet application framework in several Fortune 500 firms in the United States.WebGUI is a content management platform built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of the busy IT Staff.

In summary, WebGUI is both a content management system and an application framework. It is used every day by many organizations who wish to spend more time running their businesses than managing their web sites, intranets, or extranets.

Metadot - A leading open source portal software (GPL) used to create websites, intranets, extranets, project and community portals anyone can use. With Metadot, you can create an intranet anyone can edit in less than a week. Built-in features like file sharing, document management, calendars, forms, and polls allow your organization to be more efficient.

Be a hero and cut your intranet cost by 10 by using Metadot Intranet open source solution (GPL)!

June 21st, 2006 by Angsuman Chakraborty

(CMS) and document management (DMS) through one web-based, AJAX-powered user interface. It is used around the world to maintain web sites, intranets and extranets by companies, governments and NGO’s of any size.” In my experience it is very user friendly and I recommend it.

Magnolia’s main new features include workflow, versioning, JSR-168 support, single-sign-on, scheduled content publishing, a browser-based template-designer, a deployment packager and a new, even better user interface.

“Magnolia makes Enterprise Content Management simple by being user-friendly, battle-tested, enterprise-ready and open-source. Magnolia is available in more than 15 languages including Russian, Chinese, English, French, German and Spanish.”

The community edition is free and based on JSR-170. It is 100% Java. I have used it and can recommend it.