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Big Medium is a web content management system (CMS) for designers and their clients. The friendly, humane interface makes web publishing easy for everyone. No developers needed, no programming required. It's dead-easy to install, runs in nearly any hosting environment, and bends to the designer's vision instead of forcing cookie-cutter layouts.
Big Medium has the features you should expect of a CMS (version control, workflow, search engine, content syndication, granular editing privileges, Unicode support) but also lots of grace notes for content sites: Pullquotes, image galleries, podcasts, scheduled publication, comments, WYSIWYG CSS editor and other goodies.
Big Medium 2 is geared for designers who want a CMS that enables extremely flexible designs but remains easy to set up without programming skills. If you bring basic to intermediate HTML/CSS know-how, Big Medium can manage just about any design you throw at it.
Once the designer configures the templates, he or she can hand the site over to content editors; no technical know-how is required to add or edit pages. Big Medium's friendly, humane interface is easy and non-threatening for CMS newbies. Enter your text, images, podcasts and document downloads into Big Medium's editor, and the software automagically adds the necessary links and pages to your site.
Big Medium is a Perl application that runs on web servers running Mac OSX or other Unix flavors (and Windows, too). Big Medium's modest server requirements allow you to install it in nearly any hosting environment.
Big Medium is $185 per server installation (each install can manage an unlimited number of sites and user accounts, no extra fees). It's free to try for 30 days.
Here are just a few highlights of Big Medium's features:
- Image galleries and slideshows
- Automatic image sizing
- Basic version control and edit history
- Site search
- Scheduled publication
- Podcasting
- Visitor comments
- WYSIWYG CSS style editor
- Streamlined template editing and sitewide templates
- Section-specific privileges for content editors
- Copy content between sites
- Unlimited subsection depth
- Share/reuse images and documents
What's new in this version:
Big Medium 2.0.3 is a bug-fix update that addresses a few lingering compatibility issues with Firefox 3, fixes a bug that caused a small number of Big Medium sites to refuse to open in Internet Explorer, and adds several other changes.
Changes:
- Added "source" button to short-form rich-text fields to allow toggling between HTML and WYSIWYG views.
- Added contributors' IP addresses to comment listings in the "Edit Comments" menus.
- Added more emphatic warning messages in the confirmation dialogs for section and site deletion.
- Added .ra as an accepted file extension for Real Audio media types.
- Extracted JavaScript language file into a separate file, bmadmin/js/bm-lang-en-us.js, for easier language localization.
- Behind the scenes, Big Medium now knows how to make compressed archive copies of files and directories.
- Rich-text editor pop-up dialogs now hold their position and are not affected by scrolling.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug introduced in v2.0.2 that caused pages to refuse to load ("operation aborted" error) on some Internet Explorer 6/7 browsers for pages containing Flash animations.
- Fixed bug in Firefox 3 that caused the entire page to scroll when you typed "Enter" in the rich-text editor.
- Fixed bug that prevented draggable table resizing in the rich-text editor for Firefox 3.
- Fixed bug that could cause a crash when setting up a new site in Big Medium if the moxiedata/support directory was missing.
- Fixed bug that caused search-result navigation links to open in new windows if the "new windows" option was selected and the site was in a different domain than the domain where Big Medium is installed.
- Fixed bug that caused comments to display the date where the time should be displayed in sites where the time format had not yet been selected in the "Settings>Site Properties" screen.
- Fixed bug that prevented current print/email icon selection from highlighting correctly in the "Detail Pages" HTML preferences screen.
- Fixed syntax validation problems in podcast feeds.
- Fixed bug that caused auto-generated homepage titles to have double-escaped ampersands when site names included quotes, ampersands or < > symbols.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements:
- Web server running Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
- Or other Unix/Windows operating system with Perl 5.6.1 or higher
- CGI access and server-side includes enabled on server.
- Recommended: ImageMagick, GD, Imager or NetPBM image library installed on server.
- Control panel supports the following browsers: Safari, Firefox 1.5+, Camino 1.0+, Internet Explorer 6+.
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 Big Medium's document library lets you browse, share and re-use documents across your site. |
 Big Medium's edit menu |
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Free 30-day demo, no link required - Version: 2.0, 12/18/2007 08:49AM PST
Global Moxie (Global Moxie)
In fact, Big Medium has not required any links ("free advertising") to Global Moxie for some time. That is no longer a requirement.
Re the demo version, you can download it and install it on your own server. The demo includes the full feature set and is not crippled in any way. This demo replaces the live demo that was offered for previous versions.
Best,
Josh
Support is amazing, and I have yet to see a developer more responsive.
I now build websites in hours, not days, ad have computer unsavvy clients happily updating their own sites.
Patrick Sneyers