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SOS Webpages has passed the 2,000 mark for downloads in August.  The easy to learn content management system is used on several websites in the US and the Netherlands.  It is the software I wrote to power “The HandsomeWeb”.

I released SOS Webpages Version 1.1.3 today at SourceForge.  Updated the WYSIWYG editor and added an easy backup mechanism.  One click downloads a SQL dump from the database.  One click for a zipped file of all the uploaded pictures, etc.

The open source website management system is getting more notice in The Netherlands than anywhere else.  That is being helped along because of the Dutch translation that is included.  The system can be localized to any language quite easily (if you know the language).

Did a lot of work at the Planfactory.com this week.  Some was on the Client side, so you can’t see it, but on the front end, visitors are now able to mark their favorite stock plans and review them whenever they return to the site.  Planfactory.com has been ours for about three years now, and I do updates for the site periodically.

Today was an ugly day because one of my oldest webserver went blinking.  I only have four sites on it, but HandsomeWeb.com is one of them.  I think I only lost three hours, but I’d rather those hours had been at night.

A new HandsomeWeb site will be up next week (July 1 is the target.).  It will feature “The HandsomeWeb,”  the new product that will be affordable, professional, custom designed, and easy to update.  It is built on top of SOS Webpages.

SOS Webpages was added to Freshmeat on Friday.  Freshmeat is a rating and project hosting site for open source projects.  One of their claims to fame is they only accept projects that run on *nix systems (Unix, Linux, etc.)  Head over there and give SOS Webpages a good rating.

I released SOS Webpages 1.1.2 today.

I wrote SOS Webpages to be the basis of the HandsomeWeb.

SOS Webpages is an easy-to-learn website management system for novices wanting to manage site content. Simple web site management for non-profit organizations, small businesses, professional offices, small churches. PHP, MySQL for content management system.

Dutch and English translations are included, and localization is possible for both the front and back end. As of today their have been 1,618 downloads from Sourceforge.

I noticed that SOS Webpages has passed the 1,600 downloads mark today. It seems to be more popular in the Netherlands than anywhere else. That is aided by the included Dutch translation.