DEV web management system 1.5 review
DownloadDev is powerful and very flexible content management system for web portals
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Dev is powerful and very flexible content management system for web portals. Dev is powerful and very flexible content management system for web portals. System is licensed as freeware under the terms of GNU/GPL licence. It's absolutely free for non-commercial and commercial use.
DEV contains many modules required for system:
Articles
Dev provides easy way to publish articles for everyone visitor after registration. As site administrator, you have to check every article, and decide, if the article content is valid for publication. Only superusers can add articles directly without administrator's check. DEV supports structuring articles into Zones and Sections
Articles equipment
Each article can be separately commented and discussed. Each article has a private statistics of readability. You can evaluate article by taking the poll.
News
You can also publish short news and create back-ends in xml format
Forums and Discussion boars
DEV provides a versatile spectrum of forums and discussion boards.
Polls
As each CMS system, DEV provides a polls too. Polls can be managed using the control panel.
Gallery
With DEV w.m.s., you are able to publish your multimedia files (videos, photos, pictures, etc...) quickly and easily using the Gallery module. This module supports creating thumbnails of your files. You can organize and categorize your multimedia stuff in sections. System can automatically scan selected directory with all subdirectories and add all multimedia content into gallery.
Download manager
Organize your files in "download section" this module allows you to manage download lists, each file has a separate download counter, etc ...
Advertisement
Manage advertisement on your site using this module.
Notification
Be informed about events on your site by wide range of notification functions.
Reports
System allows you to create system reports and export them into MS Excel or XML format.
Security
You can revoke access from some IP addresses. This is the good way to avoid sniper activitity of flooders, spammers, etc ... Note: Also, you can use broadcast addresses to wide range banning.
Control panel
You are allowed to administrate system by remote access using web-browser based control panel. Control panel provides you wide range of settings. It's optional for routine administration from any computer connected to the internet. All settings can be exported into file for backup or future use.
Design customizer
DEV w.m.s. allows you to change design using special user-friendly tool (contained in control panel) without editing html code! Using this tool, you are able to create variuos design schemes and share it with your friends. Also, if you don't want to use design customizer, there is way to create design manually by editing html and css sources.
Requirements:
Apache or IIS web server
PHP preprocessor 4.0 or higher
MySQL server 3.23 or higher
Arbitrary HTML4.0 compatible web browser with CSS and Javascript support
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