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.

This free vector icon set is created by Monofactor and includes 25 lovely icons.

Icon set is suitable to be used in content management systems or other web project interfaces as it includes the standard add, edit, delete, e-mail and similar icons.

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.

SilverStripe is a powerful content management system which runs on Sapphire framework (object oriented framework like Ruby on Rails or Django).

The framework lets you rapidly code up the "objects" your project uses (e.g. staff members, products, customers, along with their relationships). You then add a few lines of code and find SilverStripe has automatically added tables and columns to the database, let you use them in your website templates, and has added new "page types" and fields into the CMS for the content editor to utilise.

Some features:

• Simple: Intuitive and user-friendly
• Flexible coding framework
• Scalable: From 1 page to a million
• Standards Compliant: Fully XHTML compliant
• Modular
• Template Freedom: No restrictions on the look and feel of your site
• Open source
• Cross platform easy to install (PHP based)
• Supported

One of the best things about SilverStripe CMS is the active community behind it. You can easily find support from users.

There are some very useful modules developed for this content management system including a blog module, forum module & an e-commerce module.