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Nectil

Nectil

Built with Flash/PHP/MySQL, Nectil offers an homogeneous environment and essential applications for your daily management: CMS, contacts, groups, files, mass-mailing, documents, security, etc.

Analyze, configure, develop, manage, and publish your multilingual contents in HTML and Flash, but also in PDF, InDesign©, Java, etc.

Two top-features:

• the List component: a list object that can manage several thousands (!) of items which can be scrolled as fast as your native OS lists! List can be declined to a Tree component and more: dynamically add columns, move them, resize them, etc.
• the CSS Editor: a flash-based real CSS editor. Write your CSS, drop them in the Nectil CSS library, edit your styled text within Nectil OS, and publish it directly on your website!

You can (and really should!) requiere a test account from this page and try for yourself, it looks like a full blown OS with all the CMS functionality you could want: group creation, lots of contact details etc etc.. very cool!

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Incubate

Incubate

INCUBATE is a set of custom components and modules that simply load above your site, enabling powerful site management and maintenance. INCUBATE is easy to use and easy to develop - Browse, edit and save. 

The INCUBATE Framework

INCUBATE uses a simple framework that allows developers to build a skeleton site containing all the necessary elements and containers for content.

1. Create your navigation buttons and position your menus.
   
2. Include your design elements (images, text etc.) in a 'layout' movieclip (as you would normally), name them, include the INCUBATE layout class linkage.
   
3. Create as many layouts as you may need.
   
4. Voila! You have a working, manageable INCUBATE site.

INCUBATE Management and Maintenance

INCUBATE consists of 11 customised modules (including Member and Mass Email management) which 'float' above your Flash website content (in 'edit mode'). They are used to edit and maintain content.
INCUBATE modules are not included in your final SWF file so file sizes are not adversely impacted even though your SWF has full INCUBATE functionality.
INCUBATE enables editing of your actual 'live' Flash site by booting into 'edit mode' via a combination of keystrokes.

Simply Login Browse, Edit and Save.

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Flashblog

Flashblog

This is more a blogging software with a Flash interface, but it has some really cool features and best, is Open Source (free)! 

You can download the sources from the e. Descargas link. 

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Flashblocks

Flashblocks

  Build dynamic Flash websites with ease, using Flashblocks Flash CMS.
Drag & drop blue "edit blocks" from your library onto the stage. These blocks are filled with dynamic content.

Show your clients to manage their flash websites effortlessly. Flashblocks CMS requires literally no client training.

Flashblocks CMS works on practically all servers without alteration. No Database is required.

Building a Flashblocks powered website is as simple as dragging & dropping blocks from your Flash library onto the stage and giving each a unique name in the Property Inspector.
When the movie is played, these blocks become editable areas when you login.
When saved, the blocks are filled with the content you just entered - images, HTML, external swf's, and any other content.

 

 

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b82 CMS

b82 CMS

Features

• an advanced Flash interface,
  
• build with XML as database,
• has auto save and auto backup, 
•  easy content and media management...

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fCMS

fCMS

A Flash CMS component (Flash Content Management System) that allows you to update text, images and SWFs directly on a live Flash website without ever leaving your browser window.

The website developer or their client has no need for a separate administration panel for managing the content of the website, and all of the changes can be applied at runtime.

With this CMS for Flash, you can edit text directly on a live Flash website. Text can be edited using the the built-in text editing toolbar.

Includes a user friendly file browser and file upload system, to insert images and external SWF files.

  

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Fierri Flash Cms

Flash Cms

Build your flash website from scratch with the help of the most complete Flash CMS actually on the market.

• One licence by server / domain
• Source Files not included
• Flash/Xml/PHP - MySql

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Joomla Menus

Joomla! Menus... collections of links to various parts of your site, or even to other sites.

The most important menu is the mainmenu. This comes with a default install and can not be deleted. Each menu you find in the Menu Manager has an associated module in the Module Manager. Each new menu you create also creates a new module. Each menu you delete also deletes the module. So first thing to remember is the tight link between a menu and its module.

Consequence: when you configure and manage your menu (links), you will have to adjust settings in (at least) two different places: the menu item, and the module for this menu. Ex.: you create a new item with a menu image. If you don't set the Show Menu Images parameter to yes in the module settings, the image won't be visible!

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Joomla Templates Part II

As explained in Part One , a Joomla Template is a normal html file (with the .php extension though) with small bits of PHP in it to load the CMS data.

Example:

        <?php if ( mosCountModules( 'banner') ) { ?>
        <span class="banner"><?php mosLoadModules('banner', -1); ?></span>

This willl load ALL published modules assigned to the "banners" position -generally only the banners module- into the spot where this code appears, if there are any modules assigned. If not, nothing happens, which is useful to collapse empty module positions.

There are two Joomla functions used here:

1. mosCountModules will check if there are any modules assigned to a specific position at all
2. mosLoadModules will load all assigned published modules for that position sequentially in order of appearance in Module Manager admin screen.

As you may have noticed, the Count function takes only one parameter: name of the position to check modules for.

mosLoadModules

this function can take two parameters:

1. position name to all modules for
2. display styles (-1 in this example).
   These can be:
   0 = (default display) Modules are displayed in a column.
   1 = Modules are displayed horizontally, each in one table cell.
   -1 = Modules are displayed as raw output and without titles.
   -2 = Modules are displayed in X-Joomla format.(xhtml)
   -3 = Modules are displayed in a format that allows, for example, stretchable rounded corners by using divs.

To learn more about the display styles, please read on at the official Help site . 

Now we know about modules, what else is there to be pulled into the HTML skeleton from the CMS?  

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Joomla and Flash

An attempt to answer some (not all!) common, reocurring questions about the usage of Flash (SWF files) in Joomla templates and or content items.

Topics delt with (unordered, even tough the list is numbered..):

1. need of a plugin to display SWFs, thus the recommendation to use a detection script!
2. web standards compliance (validation) 
3. using the MOSMedia component
4. inserting Flash via various mambots
5. integration of complete Flash applications (RIA)
6. replacing a header image by an SWF file in your template
7. using Flash for headers (sIFR)
8. some existing extensions using Flash (as of publication date)
9. importance of path to swf
10. SWF not playing: "play" and or "autostart" params
    

Usefull links:

1. Ambience
2. Hixie
3. Blatek
4. Gilluminate
5. Accessible Flash
6. Deconcept

Compliant Flash insertion code

 <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 

 data="path/folder/file.swf" width="WIDTH" height="HEIGHT">



 <param name="movie" value="file.SWF" />



 <p>You need flash player</p>



 </object>

 Let's get going.

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