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What is UsabilityMonday 21st February 2011
The term “usability” is often applied to objects and digital user interfaces, people generally understand this to be “the ease at which a person can interact with a product” and at a high level this is fine. However, to understand how usability affects the success of a product, such as a web site, the term needs to be broken into various components
What's New to Alfresco 3.4?Monday 11th October 2010
At Ixxus we've been investigating features new to Alfresco version 3.4, and have started to use them in real world situations. This release contains so many interesting features, that's hard to list them all in detail. Of particular interest to me is the alternative new approach to using Alfresco for WCM applications
The Golden Age of Open SourceThursday 29th July 2010
I have already seen the change happen in the world of content management. As we came out of the summer of 2009, hard on the tail of a global economic meltdown, something changed in the take up of open source ECM in the blue chip arena of business. Our projects suddenly shifted from strategic, point solutions leveraging the open source model of Alfresco to become main stream, enterprise adoptions of Alfresco as a chosen, strategic enterprise content management platform across global corporations and organisations. Not just on one or two occasions, not just in one or two sectors, but across the board.
TinyMCE Extension for AlfrescoTuesday 22nd June 2010
A recent customer requirement was identified in the Document Management side of Alfresco (as opposed to the WCM side). The requirement I refer to; was to embed content from the DM repository directly into new content being created via the WYSIWYG editor. After thinking about it for a little, I went about producing a solution that was based on the WCM version.
Principle of the CloudFriday 4th June 2010
The cloud is historically a metaphor used to describe the internet. You will recognise the cloud from common depiction of any network diagram as the fluffy thing/the internet that the firewall or router piers out to.
Alfresco DotNetNuke IntegrationThursday 29th April 2010
A recent client of ours had an existing portal and CMS solution based upon the Microsoft .NET DotNetNuke (DNN) open source web content management system.
- Building an e-commerce platform on top of Alfresco
Thursday 22nd April 2010
More and more of our clients are seeking to expand their online presence and as such we have received a number of requests from various clients to add an ecommerce platform on top of their installed Alfresco ECM platform.
- Alfresco Online Data Rooms
Tuesday 13th April 2010
Our online data room solution came about from requirements gathered from past and present customer engagements.
Running the WCM example on Tomcat 6.0.xTuesday 16th March 2010
If you try to deploy the example for the alfresco WCM contained in the alfresco-wcm-example-3.2.0 in a Tomcat 6.0.x servlet container, you will have a number of issues. Put simply, it does not work as it is most likely because it was built for a previous version of Tomcat.
Easily Edit Content with Alfresco and the Ixxus Web FrameworkFriday 19th February 2010
One of the difficulties when editing content with Alfresco is locating the document within the Alfresco web interface to begin your edit. Often, content is placed into deep, complex structures that can take time to learn and navigate. This is not only frustrating for the content editor, but wastes unnecessary time.
