Free .NET CMS "AxCMS.net 9" will ship in September
Version 9 of free .NET Web CMS "AxCMS.net" will be shipped in September 2009 featuring a wealth of new functions and improvements. AxCMS.net Solution Providers will be able to benefit from coming features through interim releases even before launch of AxCMS.net 9. AxCMS.net Version 8.5 can be downloaded for free already today at: http://www.AxCMs.net
Technology of Choice
Version 9 is entirely based on Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework including ASP.NET Ajax, Silverlight 3 and all the latest goodies provided by Microsoft. Version 9 is built using Visual Studio Suite and Team Foundation Server and supports large projects for teams between 5 and 200 developers. Existing .NET projects can be included in AxCMS.net project templates without any changes. This helps minimizing migration efforts and transfering existing e-commerce and web sites into content managed websites easily.
Usability
The CMS user interface is being overhauled. WYSIWYG mode, list views, and detail views of objects will be optimized for improved usability and speed. These changes' goals are an even more intuitive user interface and a substantial acceleration of typical editor tasks. User interface will be improved using latest Microsoft Silverlight 3 technology.
Search Engine Friendlyness (SEO / SEF)
AxCMS.net 9 will feature ways to define patterns for URLs according to users' needs (i. e. URLs without parameters, URLs with an arbitrary hierarchy that can be defined at design time, special extensions, etc.). These additions together with URL rewriting improvements will dramatically simplify creation and management of search engine friendly web sites.
Multi-site Management
AxCMS.net has been supporting the management of an arbitrary number of web sites for a long time. The new version will further improve multi-site management. It will provide features to editors and developers that will simplify and accelerate multi-site management.
Publication Workflow
Publication workflow will take into account additional dependencies of objects being published. Users publishing pages, documents, and other objects will be better supported by the user interface.
Support of New Technologies
AxCMS.net 9 will even better support development and management of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). RIAs have different requirements for communication of RIA front ends on client side with CMS back end than traditional web sites.
Managing web sites that are built on top of Microsoft's new MVC approach is possible, even with the current version of AxCMS.net. However, AxCMS.net 9 will feature additional functions that will even better support running and managing web sites that utilize this new technology.
Performance Improvements
AxCMS.net 9 will feature improved performance in many places. It will fly as fast as never before :-)