If you have been disappointed with Alfresco’s web content management user interface, you should see what is happening in the Community Edition (2.9 – an R&D release). In particular, there is an extension called Alfresco Dynamic Website that seems to provide a much better UI for managing web projects. I have not started playing with it but it looks promising.
With this extension, Alfresco WCM gets a much needed tree control to browse and organize a website and in-context editing. BTW, how did Alfresco know to win me over by having an enviro-demo? I wonder if this work was somehow tied into their recent Synerge win.
According to the forum, at least some of these concepts will start to be available for Community Edition 2.9 by mid April (although, since 2.2 Enterprise is late, I am not holding my breath). The feature will be baked into Community Edition 3.0 scheduled for late July. The 3.0 is aptly named “Project Slingshot” – I think that Alfresco could afford to shoot ahead in WCM usability.
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ADW is completely unrelated to any current customer projects/engagements. It was built entirely by one of Alfresco’s Solutions Engineers based on the need for easy-to-use, graphical website assembly. We’re really psyched about it. I’m glad to hear you are too!
This is really exciting news and a welcomed addition to the Alfresco open source product. I have become a real advocate of the Open Source philosophy and have been evaluating Alfresco as a document management and web content management system and it is a true Enterprise Content Management system.
The new “Alfresco Dynamic Website” looks great and I must point out that the ExtJS JavaScript framework is being used to give it a real web 2.0 feel that will really put this product at then forefront of web content management.
Looking forward to getting the new ADW module in CE 2.9B working. Checking the forums daily to download and get it working then we’ll spread the word Down Under. Well Done guys.