If you dare to look beyond the Wordpress themes, there is a good option in Drupal. Whether for business, travel, magazine or any other website, Drupal has an assortment of themes. More so Drupal.org after official redesigning has encouraged theme designers to create exciting drupal designs. Still it's no easy to find an ideal theme that would suit all your needs. With time your needs will fluctuate, so it's always better to begin with a free theme for your site. this will allow you to get acquainted with elements and features of Drupal theme and then you can buy a premium theme. It asked for an extensive research from us to explore the Top 10 popular free Drupal themes.
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DooxCMS 3.0 is a flexible Web 2.0 Content Management System which was built with PHP Script and Ajax framework.  It can be used to create from simple website  to large corporate website. Installation was simple. The software has built-in SEO optimization to help your website rank better. Read the full review in Enterprise Blog.

Everyone and their dog talks about WordPress performance these days and also tells you how to scale WordPress (Read: How to really scale WordPress). When I grew up in Kharagpur (yes, the same Kharagpur which has the top IIT and yes I did my B.Tech there) everyone knew how to cure diabetes - you have to walk a lot, stop eating sweets, eat / drink varying concoction of Neem leaves and / or Nayantara leaves and / or Jamun fruit or seed and presto you are cured of diabetes. It works to some extent in uncomplicated cases and so does the various remedies for WordPress performance. Let's see what are the often repeated "expert" advice for making WordPress perform (because by default WordPress performance is really really crappy; pardon my French):

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Joomla is a very popular open source content management system. It enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla one of the most popular Web site software available at present. Despite talking much about the CMS and ECMs, we haven't touched the beauty aspect of them till now. A technically sound website isn't enough to attract visitors to your web place. You need to choose the themes appropriately as well. So where can you find the best ones under one roof? Your worries stop here. We have brought out the best Joomla/ Mambo themes just for you.

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MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework with powerful features that help you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores. For example, it gives you a true system for registered web users and groups that is separate from administration users. You can grant some web users access to one page and others access to another page. For content management, you can easily duplicate documents, folders (and all their children!), chunks and snippets. Most significant, though, is MODx's ability to empower you to quickly and easily create and maintain a rich and dynamic website like never before. MODx is something which hasn't actually got its full share of cake ever. So as the new version of MODx 0.9.6.3 came out on Dec 19. 2008. I thought of reviewing the new version and then explain it to you all.

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Yesterday, we had comprehensively reviewed eZ publish- an open source enterprise content management system for you. We have another one today, Alfresco. Without going into much details about enterprise content management systems (which you can find out from eZ publish article), let's go straight into our topic today.

What is Alfresco

Alfresco offers an enterprise content management platform built on open source software, which companies use for document management, Web content management, and collaboration. Alfresco isn't the only open source ECM platform, but on the document management and collaboration front, it's  perhaps the biggest.

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eZ publish is a commercially-supported, dual license web content management system by Norway-based eZ systems. eZ publish is one of the most popular enterprise content management system. So, those who are not familiar with Content Management System (or need a brush-up), lemme give you a brief introduction to CMS and ECM.

Content Management System

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation.

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How effective is a site re-design? The final proof is in site traffic. When we started re-designing Taragana.com we had many apprehensions. One thing we knew for sure, the corporate site we had then sucked in three major ways:

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Anaconda Theme for WordPress 2.x blogs is a next generation 3 column CSS based theme provided by us. Anaconda Theme requires an attribution link at the bottom of each page. That is all we ask for our hard work in developing and testing this theme. However you may not want to have this attribution link / link back in every page of your blog for some reason. Here is what you can do to remove the linkback / attribution legitimately and without feeling guilty about it.

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Our website ( taragana.com ) needs to continuously adapt to our growing business. The old website was based on Joomla CMS, which despite its strength, was pretty hard to easily customize for our complex needs. We needed a solution to enable us to easily create microsites for our products with distinctive look, embed functionality with PHP snippets etc. After extensive research and prototyping we adopted MODx (review).

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