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Midgard Content Management System

Midgard CMS is a versatile and user-friendly Web Content Management System used by thousands of organizations in the world. It provides content managers with MS Word compatible tools for maintaining site information, approval system for controlling the publication process, and a separate layout management system. Midgard CMS is available for free under Open Source licensing.

Midgard CMS is built on reliable architecture

Midgard CMS and the Midgard Application Framework have been built on the popular platform of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP). The LAMP platform runs on millions of web servers around the world powering sites from simple organizational web sites to huge portals like Yahoo!

Midgard CMS supports your local language

Midgard CMS has been built by an international developer community and supports several language encodings including Unicode. Midgard CMS is used on sites in multiple languages including English, Finnish, German, Chinese, Russian and Maori.

Build your site from components

Midgard CMS utilizes the MidCOM component technology with which the different site areas can be "clicked together" from ready-made components, or site features. The different functionalities on a web site are defined by creating folders and assigning them to components. Components include static content, news listings, event calendars, wikis, RSS and Atom news readers and shopping carts.

Features

MS Word -compatible content editor

• Easy publishing environment for non-technical users
• Includes all regular text formatting options and image/file attachment support
• Requires MS Internet Explorer 5.01+ or Mozilla 1.3+

Group-based workflow settings

• Different roles: Designers (layout), Developers (logic and structure), Authors (content production), Editors (content approval and publication)
• Groups can be assigned both viewing and editing permissions to different content areas
• Roles are based on group settings and ownership of different content areas
• Power users have access to revision control (RCS) and moving content objects

Staging/live setup

• Prepare you site changes in staging environment, test and finally publish to live site when ready
• Use scheduled publication or publish to site immediately

Multi-company hosting (ASP) support

• Each company is assigned to their own virtual database
• User interface can be customized to support ASP provider's brand
• ChangeLogs system provides easy way to publish system notices

Flexible templating and layout system

• Layout templates can be generated from multiple elements gathered from the site style and the page tree
• Midgard supports the HTML, XHTML and CSS standards fully

Full Midgard Content Management Framework

• Easy and documented object-oriented PHP programming interface
• MidCOM Component Architecture for application development
• Separation of content, layout and site logic
• Efficient content management using a hierarchical topic and article tree
• Flexible attachment of metadata and files to all content objects
• Replication and packaging utilities