Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. Frog CMS share the goal to simplify content management, and offer an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions and all what you need for your files management.

Frog requires a MySQL database with InnoDB support, a web server (Apache with mod_rewrite is highly recommended) and is distributed under the MIT software license.

Frog is unique because of is simple templating code, that does not need to learn a other scripting language, because it use directly PHP. I have found this approach interesting for 2 reasons:

• In general, it is not use in article pages, so it does not scared the writer that does not want to learn PHP.
• The webmaster of the site, the one that will code some basic condition or loop to add more dynamic on is website generally know a little PHP. Just enough to add some dynamic latest news part, latest articles or photo gallery.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.madebyfrog.com/

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams with the following main features.

Simple Admin Interface

Built from the ground up to be as simple as possible, Radiant features an elegant administrative interface that centers around three key components: pages, snippets, and layouts.

Pages

Pages contain the meat of the content for a Web site and may use Markdown, Textile, or plain HTML. Pages are composed of multiple parts such as a body and sidebar.

Snippets

Content that is used in multiple places can be stored in a snippet. Snippets are very similar to PHP includes or Rails partials.

Layouts

Layouts generally contain most of the HTML for a page’s design. Layouts can render pages parts in any way they choose. One layout could choose to render the body and sidebar of a page, while another layout (a print layout) could render only the body.

Flexible Site Structure

Unlike many other blogging engines Radiant allows you to arrange pages according to any hierarchy. A Weblog in Radiant can be as simple as a collection of child pages underneath a parent page.

Radius Template Language

Radiant has a special macro language (similar to HTML) called Radius which makes it easy to include content from other pages, iterate over page children, and display content conditionally. Radius tags are available in pages, snippets, and layouts.

Custom Text Filters

Radiant ships with support for Markdown and Textile, but developers can easily create text filters for any markup language such as RDoc, BBCode, or Structured Text.

Intelligent Page Caching

Radiant includes an intelligent caching mechanism which allows content to be cached for a maximum of 5 minutes. This ensures that content is always fresh and provides an optimal level of performance.

Built with Ruby on Rails

Radiant is built using Ruby on Rails. This means it’s easy for developers to extend Radiant because it’s built on a widely accepted (and understood) Web application development platform.

Licensed Under the MIT License

Radiant is licensed under the MIT License. This means that Radiant is free for commercial and non-profit use. It also means that you are free to modify and distribute Radiant as long as you don’t remove the appropriate notices from the source code.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://radiantcms.org/

For those bloggers out there who have decided to start their blogs, or launch their blogging careers, in 2007 Darren from ProBlogger present to you with 41 ways to kickstart your marketing efforts. Kick back, grab a cold one, and check it out. And if, in a year’s time, you’ve cracked the Technorati 1000, don’t forget where it all began. This is really a length and juicy post that can help you market your blog. Spare your time and read How To Market Your Blog in 2007 and put it in practice as well.

Source: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/01/11/how-to-market-your-blog-in-2007/

Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, Dane Carlson has created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

You can just input the URL of your blog on How Much Is Your Blog Worth, and it will calculate the value of your blog for you.

And then you can simply paste the code into your blog to show off your result to others.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/

Get paid for blogging. You’ve been writing about Web sites, products, services and companies you love for years and you have yet to benefit from all the sales and traffic you have helped generate. That’s about to change. With PayPerPost advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Search through a list of Opportunities, make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid. It’s that simple.

Join over 50,000 other bloggers who have started a new blogging revolution! PayPerPost is an incredible new self-service marketplace that allows you to get paid to blog about the products, services and websites you love. You can easily earn $500 per month or more with your current blog!

Type: Pay Per Post
Source: http://payperpost.com

Evil JohnChow has over 14000 subscribers, he has successfully gained 4,691 RSS readers in one month which is really a legend. On April 1999, he started a little technology site call The TechZone. That site has risen to become one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Currently the site has over 10,000 pages and gets over 200,000 page views per day.

On JohnChow.com, he shares his findings and opinions about the internet and blogging world. Sometimes, he does some product and services review, so that we can know much more about the product or services before we actually implement it on our blog. He sometimes reveal some secrets of the internet which really impress you and wonder where he can get the valuable information from. Visit JohnChow.com and it will stay on you reading list forever I am sure.

Source: http://www.johnchow.com

Gossip City is a theme for WordPress created by Design Disease. The theme was created based on what people would want to see from a gossip blog.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/10/11/celebrific-gossip-city…

WordPress Grid Focus was originally a personal project designed and coded for 5thirtyone.com. After much debate as to whether the project should be released to the general public, and after a collection of thoughtful emails from readers & fans, 5thirtyone.com have decided to share the project with the WordPress community.

WordPress Grid Focus is a three column WordPress theme created and distributed free of any dependance of WordPress plugins. Convenient navigation bars can be found at the top and bottom of pages in order to provide your visitors with ample opportunity to continue exploring. Category archives are presented via a JavaScript shelf which can be found at the top of the page. The original source of the theme - 5thirtyone.com must remain intact.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://5thirtyone.com/grid-focus

For the best results using FeedBurner with your self-hosted WordPress site, we recommend the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin (originally authored by the awesome Steve Smith). The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

Features:

• Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
• No PHP skills or file changes needed
• User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
• Available in many languages
• Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
• Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
• Tells Ask.com, Google and YAHOO about changes via ping
• Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
• Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 1.5+
Source: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml…