Christian Web Resources

It's been a year since Christian Web Resources was launched and we're still here providing tips, tricks, guidance, examples, fellowship and encouragement for church and ministry web masters using XOOPS and ImpressCMS.

Admittedly, there hasn't been a ton of activity here, but there are things I am proud of and urge me to continue. For example, shortly after launching, Christian Web Resources hit the 1st page of Google search results for 'xoops resources'. Now, we are in the #1 position at Google and #2 for 'impresscms resources'!  We're also doing pretty good for XOOPS or ImpressCMS + 'church sites'.

ImpressCMS 1.1 has been released as a final, stable release and the list of new features is rather impressive!

Some of the features introduced in this version of ImpressCMS have been on the community's wish list for a long time -

• Built-in content creator and manager
• Integration of OpenID as an authentication method for user logins
• WYSIWYG editor available throughout the site without having to hack the core or modules
• Increased security options for encrypting user passwords
• Built-in support for RTL (right-to-left) languages
• Password strength meter
• CAPTCHA built-in and used for system comments and registration forms
• and many more features...

The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.30 Final.

This release is intended to merge the two existing branches of 2.0 and 2.2 and is building a bridge towards XOOPS 3.0.

Both XOOPS and ImpressCMS have released updates to address the recently disclosed security flaw. The National Vulnerability Database and SecurityFocus both reported details of a security flaw that affected both CMS platforms.
XOOPS has released version 2.0.18.2 RC and ImpressCMS has released version 1.0.2.RC
It is highly recommended you upgrade to the most recent version of either XOOPS or ImpressCMS to better secure your web site.

Sun Microsystems, the world’s biggest contributor to Open Source (Open Office, Java -now under GPL, GlassFish and NetBeans), has recently announced plans to acquire MySQL AB, the sole owner of the MySQL server source code, the MySQL trademark and the mysql.com domain worldwide.