Crucible
How would you like a site that is multi-facited as you are? Crucible may just be the solution for you.
What is Crucible?
Crucible is a customized content management system, based on Joomla™, a rich Open Source application for managing and populating anything from an online newspaper, to a community forum, to an e-commerice site. Crucible takes the best of Joomla and mixes in the best 3rd-party add-ons, plugins, modifications and application extentions and makes it into a fully tested, simple to use, web-based powerhouse.
What Can CrucIble Do?
Crucible is still in development here at Alembic Laboratories, but the Joomla™ CMS, as well as the additional modifications can handle the following, with little muss nor fuss:
- Display and syndicated (via Atom and RSS) categorized news, site updates, and blogs, fully modular and able to be placed anywhere in your site on the fly
- Group management of site content via an easy-to-use web-based interface
- Output site content in flexible, search engine friendly URLs and markup, so that your site can be seen fully by Google, Yahoo, and others (even though it lives in a database)
- Simple (almost effortless) installation of additional modules (such as slideshows, polling, and shopping carts), engineered by hosts of Mambo and Joomla developers around the world
- Easy relocation to another server - just install the application (which typically takes less than a couple minutes), dump in your database, and go
- Up-to-the minute redesigns, with a switchable templating system - Install a new design, flip the switch and the site is brand new, with all your old content intact
How Can I Get It?
It will be available right here. Once the application is fully tested, you can download it an install it to your web host (requires PHP and a MySQL database). If you are an Alembic Laboratories client, we can put this in as part of the development process.
How Much Does It cost?
Nothing. Nadda. Zip. Zilch.
Since Joomla™ is open source and open source projects thrive in a community, we are giving it out for free. In a sense, we at Alembic Labs are editting together a "Best of..." of Mambo and Joomla™ and we are redistributing it under the same terms as the code application.
Alembic Laboratories, once Crucible CMS is released, will offer proprietary addons and templates, but all the important components will be available graits. You're welcome.