Freestyler CMS News

Australia's first GeoCMS

Freestyler CMS has become Australia's first GeoCMS with the addition of full Google Maps integration and support for third party GIS systems.

Wikipedia defines a GeoCMS as:

A Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) is a Content Management System where objects (users, images, articles, blogs..) can have a Latitude, Longitude position to be displayed on an online interactive map. In addition the online maps link to informational pages (wiki pages essentially) on the data represented.

The last year Freestyler took the first steps to becoming a fully fledged GeoCMS with the Alpine Shire Incident Management System based on Freestyler technology.  The application used data from the council's GIS (Geographical Information System) and displayed them on a more user friendly Google maps interface.



Recently another Freestyler based site, the Wyndham City Council website showed the GeoCMS capabilities further using community based features to power a "MyArea" system where residents can enter their postcode to find services located near them.



Freestyler allows geo-tagging on any content added to the system.  This allows it to be used for almost any type of geographically based application.  Two-way integration with the Google Maps API allows Freestyler users to create custom maps with pinpoints to the location of their content.

There are now dozens of sites powered by Freestyler which feature nearest service type locators using Google Maps.
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CMS Demo in 60 minutes ...

Janus Boye suggests that content management vendors should be able to give you a CMS demo in 60 minutes. 

We can do it in less than 10.  In fact we've even got the online walkthroughs to prove it.  The first is just under two.

The idea of testable stories is also great.  We've been doing that too.

In fact we've been taking this approach with CMS for over 3 years ...

I am actually suprised to hear that many vendors still give roundabout sales pitches for content management systems and I'd also like to suggest that there is still a lot of smoke and mirrors out there.  But in response to this article I would also suggest that the market has gone so far that many potential customers do not even request a demonstration of a CMS these days, they just want to know what yours does differently and for what price and that it is not simply vapourware.

For these reasons we've concentrated on making Freestyler CMS the most affordable commercial enterprise web CMS to implement in the Australian marketplace.
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Freestyler 5.3 released

We are pleased to offer Freestyler 5.3 to new and existing customers.

Version 5.3 makes the world's easiest to use Enterprise Content Management even easier.

Freestyler is already one of the most affordable enterprise systems in the Australian marketplace, the latest release adds even more value for money.

The latest version features

• New cross platform Rich Text Editor
  
• justification
• support for HTML anchors
• enhanced cross browser tables management
• change text colour and background
• Undo and Redo commands
  
• Google Analytics Integration
• Google Webmaster Tools Integration
• Google XML Sitemap Integration
• Enhanced Google Maps API
  
• More SEO features
  
• Manage custom window titles
  
• Favicon upload
  
• Template Conversion feature
• Selected position when adding nodes
  
• Enhanced Image gallery with image size format selector
  
• Simplified content check-in
  
• Conventional and Slashdot style tree view modes
  
• Performance Enhancements
  
• Interface enhancements
  

Datalink have been concurrently working on Freestyler Bravo, our much anticipated version 6.0 release for the last 12 months, which is now gaining momentum and slated for public release in April, 2008. Comments (0)