INDXR is a PHP script enables you to display your portfolio in a "directory listing-like presentation" with minimum effort.

The application has an admin panel which you can define the default settings, add new images, videos & manage folders

You can set a width-height to auto-crop newly added images, call content from any feed like Flickr -Twitter, integrate the portfolio to currently built site of yours & more.

To view a demo of the application, you can view the websites using INDXR from the "participants" menu.

P.S. The application is currently in beta state.

Zimplit is a ridiculously easy to use free CMS application which is ideal for simple websites.

There is no standard admin panel. A toolbox appears after logging in & you start editing the website.

You can add images, links, edit the HTML of a page and copy a page to use it as a template for a new page.

It requires PHP 4.3+ to run & no databases required.

The application needs CHMOD 777 on all files for editing them. Since they are HTML files (except zimplit.php), it does not sound very bad.

ImpressCMS is a powerful & free PHP – MySQL content management system which is, currently, based on famous XOOPS but developed in another direction.

It is a community developed application and has already 150+ addons including e-commerce, forum support & more.

Some features:

• Fully modularized
• User registration & personalization
• User permissions management
• Multilanguage
• Theme-based skinnable interface
• & more..

Markup Factory is an impressive web publishing platform for web designers & developers.

It is a hosted-platform where you can create simple to complex websites easily with features including:

• content management system
• blog
• calendar
• event registration
• online store
• podcasting
• newsletter management
• & much more.

And, you or your customers can manage all the features with a powerful content management & administration interface.

I have been playing with Markup Factory for a while & the best part is, it does not limit or force you to a new way of development.

It presents you all the logics of a website, blog, online store etc., you continue developing how you used to, creating the template, css, even add JS functions if you want but don’t deal with the time-consuming programming part and take advantage of the ready-to-use modules.

Markup Factory is built with web standards in mind. It has a powerful template engine that supports native XHTML – CSS and system modules have valid XHTML outputs from end to end.

There are also 2 "in-beta" features that are about to make the system much powerful:

• built-In customizable online database
• form builder

The application is very well-documented & not complicated. This makes the adaption period shorter.

Markup Factory is offering different packages for different requirements.

For an example Markup Factory built website, check Marshill.cc.

For an overview/tour of the system, click here.

Conclusion:

Markup Factory is complete website creation platform for web designers/developers. It will enable you to create a  complicated website with a blog, e-commerce features, event registration, calendar, etc in a very short time.

On the other hand, the website manager will be able to manage the whole content & system easily (when needed, there is a ready-to-use documentation).

P.S. This post is a review.

Mura is a beautiful open source content management system, built with Coldfusion, that helps you manage your site content easily.

Besides the standard CMS functions, Mura has marketing features like targeted messaging, user tracking, integrated email marketing and more.

Mura can manage multiple websites, generate SEO friendly URLS, has powerful personalization & user administration capabilities.

This Coldfusion powered CMS also offers pre-built CSS layouts and templates that will help you using semantically-correct, logically structured XHTML that's easy for you to control and easy for your client to use without blowing up layouts and formatting.

Sava can use both MySQL or MSSQL for storing data.

Frog CMS is a simple yet powerful content management system. It is the PHP variant of Radiant CMS (Ruby on Rails CMS app. – see WRD post) with a similar interface and logic.

This CMS application is ideal to be used both by designers & developers as, in general, they already know the basics of PHP and can insert simple loop, if else type codes while creating the pages and Frog CMS lets code usage in certain places. On the other hand end-users can use it too as it has a HTML editor for contents.

Some features of Frog CMS:

• Unlimited hierarchically structured page navigation menu
• Flexible page content: body, sidebar, extended, summary
• Per page layout customization
• Simple and reusable content snippets
• Drag and drop page ordering
• Password protected administration
• Simple user and permission management
• File manager

For storing data, you can choose between MySQL database or SQLite 3 with PDO.

TYPOlight is one of the most attractive open source content management systems I have seen.

Built with PHP5, TYPOlight uses MySQL for storing the data. Besides the powerful features, this CMS application is very well documented and has an active users community.

As a feature spotlight, XHTML output, form generator and being able to manage multiple websites under 1 system are really nice.

Features of TYPOlight

• Live update feature
• Uses Ajax technology
• Intuitive user interface
• Accessible XHTML strict output
• Versioning and undo management
• Accessible administration area
• Front end output 100% template based
• Automatic e-mail encryption (spam protection)
• Powerful permission system (user management)
• Newsletter management
• Form generator
• Multi-language support (character set UTF-8)
• Generates search engine friendly URLs
• Web 2.0 support (e.g. lightbox)
• Advanced search and sorting options
• Multiple back end languages and back end themes
• Supports multiple websites in one tree
• Supports GZip compression
• Print articles as PDF

Umbraco is an open source content management system built with ASP.NET and using MSSQL for storing the data.

Using Umbraco, designers can create valid XHTML with their markup left intact and developers can integrate any .Net based controls out of the box.

Some features of this ASP.NET CMS software:

• Beautiful, user-friendly interface
• Integrated WYSIWYG Editor
• Support for editing in Microsoft Word
• Versioned and scheduled publishing
• Full support for own .NET Controls
• Documented API
• Use any .NET Language like c# or VB.NET
• Full source code available (open source)
• Super simple template engine
• Full support for web standards

This powerful free CMS application will also have reports (for statistics) and form creation features in the near future.

Radiant is an open source content management system built with Ruby on Rails. It is built for small developer teams other than the end-users as it requires programming knowledge.

With a very simple interface, Radiant offers flexibility when creating the design & content. 3 parts: pages, snippets (like PHP includes) and layouts create the core of the system.

It offers a flexible site structure where pages can be arranged according to any hierarcy.

Radiant has a custom template language named Radius (similar to HTML) which can be used inside pages, layouts to include content from other pages or display content conditionally & more. It also has an intelligent caching mechanism which helps serving pages faster while ensuring the content is up-to-date.

PureEdit is a content management system specially for developers who create the front-end of the website themselves and need a flexible CMS software.

PureEdit lets you control the databases that you created with a nice looking CMS interface without any coding. It simply lets you create, edit or delete data with database. Compared to many other CMS softwares, you don’t need to adapt to the CMS software, PureEdit adapts to you.

The beauty of PureEdit comes with the clever interface that understands whether the database column will be shown as a file upload, text editor, date, etc..  By naming the columns with  _txt, _file, _date (ex: post_date) PureEdit gets that this will be a date value and shows this data as a date view.

To see the power of PureEdit, check the screencasts.