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Advice, tutorials, news, training and expert advice on the Concrete5 content management system, ecommerce, website design, online marketing and social media optimization from Pixo Web Design & Strategy. To watch training videos visit our Concrete5 videos page. To learn more about our Concrete5 services or to get your own Concrete5 website please feel free to contact us.
Dec
14
What is a CMS and How Concrete5 Can Help Your Business
A CMS or Content Management System is a tool that is used to manage a website's content. Content usually includes the text and images on a website. Using a CMS you can add, edit or delete content on a website and typically it allows you add and delete pages of a website. A CMS such as Concrete5 g…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Nov
16
Things to Watch for in the Next Concrete5 Release
The following is a sneak peak of what Pixo has found that you can anticipate seeing in the next Concrete5 release the beginning of next year:
An enhancement of the image editing tools in Concrete5.
Social tools and an enhancement of the user account interface
More enhancements for enterprise level …
Categories: Concrete5
Nov
14
Concrete5 Wins People's Choice Award for Best Content Management System
Congrats goes to Concrete5 for winning the CMS Critic People's Choice Award for Best Open Source Content Management System. It looks like it was a close battle with CMS Made Simple for first place but in the end Concrete5 prevailed. Read the full article at http://www.cmscritic.com/peoples-choice-w…
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Nov
10
The Top 10 Best Concrete5 Add-ons
The following is our picks for the best Concrete5 add-ons based on general usability, functionality and support. We've blogged about this before but there have been a number of new additions to the Concrete5 Marketplace since then and a number of add-ons have been updated. So the following is our …
Categories: Concrete5
Oct
16
Forbes Writer Recognizes Pixo VPs Work in Mommy Blogger Social Media and It's Value
Forbes writer Victor Lipman wrote an article today about Pixo Vice President Amber Johnson's speech in Steamboat this last weekend about the effectiveness of mommy blogging social media campaigns. You can read the entire article here. To quote Mr Lipman in his Forbes article:
"I spent a bit of ti…
Categories: Social Media Marketing
Oct
16
A Trip to Concrete5 World Headquarters
A little over a week ago I headed to Oregon to meet with Franz Maruna, CEO of Concrete5 to talk about Concrete5, find out how the marketplace works and see where Concrete5 is heading. Everyone at Concrete5 that I had a chance to meet were great to speak with and a pleasure to be around. The corpor…
Categories: Concrete5
Oct
12
New Concrete5 Form Add-on to Put Form Labels in Form Fields
Pixo has just release a new Concrete5 form add-on that allows you to put your Concrete5 form block field labels inside the form field. This handy add-on allows you to create forms that are more compact which is great when you don't have a lot of space in sidebars and other tight spots to have wide …
Categories: Concrete5 add-ons
Oct
01
New Concrete5 Form Templates Add-on; Beta Testers Wanted
Pixo has developed a new add-on that allows you to put the label for a text field for the Concrete5 form block inside the text field like you see below. Often site administrators have limited space for form fields in sidebars and other areas of a site and as a result the standard Concrete5 block do…
Categories: Concrete5
Sep
13
Guess the Giant Pumpkin's Weight and WIN Free Search Engine Optimization Setup
At Pixo we work hard but we also like to have fun! Guess the weight of Pixo President Jamie Johnson's giant pumpkin (all entries have to be received by September 27th) and win FREE search engine optimization setup for your website ($600 value). The individual with the guess closest to the correc…
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Sep
07
Is Concrete5 Big Enough CMS for Your Business?
Sometimes we get asked if Concrete5 is robust enough to manage a major, mission critical website. Major brands such as HP (http://www.openwebosproject.org) trust Concrete5 to run their websites. Why? Because it is easy to use, allows for work flow, includes advanced permissions, requires less tra…
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