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We launched our open source website
From the start of the company we had something in mind, also we included it to our policies. It is that we use open source software for our developments. We saw a lot of advantages over using open source, and we believe that our clients are safe with those rather than any bespoke software we do. That doesnt mean that we do not make any bespoke software, we do them but we explain our clients what they can benifit from Open Source.
We have been working with SilverStirpe Open Source CMS from the begining of our company, and SilverStripe has been helping us to make websites and to grow our business. As open source is something more about freedom and sharing we have shared some of the codes we did with the SilverStripe community. They includes modules, widgets, and templates which are done using the designs we have at our template portal. All these peices of software are there on the SilverStripe website,
As the maintainers of these software we thought of launching a new website to give you more information and to alow you to downloand the latest builds etc. You are welcome to visit and download the software there. http://open.whynotonline.com.
Also the website is designed and coded my me (Nivanka) and Dasun is feeding the content to the website. We'd love to hear comments about the design, and the arrangement.
NCEA Economics site launched
Today 21st of March 2009 we managed to go live with a new website, which is called NCEA Economics. The website is sponsored by whynotonline.com. We met the owner of the website Marcus Gibbs a High School Student from New Zealand, at the SilverStripe Forums, and we discussed with him about his ambitions / aims and after that we decided to sponsor Marcus with developing and designing his website for free.
His view is that to fill out the need of a proper website which can support any NCEA Economics student.This is how he described his idea in an email which I got from him,
"Economics is a difficult subject, like a new language it is at times confusing, frustrating and annoying."
That's where my website comes in, 'NCEA Economics' is designed specifically with the newcomer to Economics in mind. NCEA Level 1 Economics, NCEA Level 2 and NCEA Level 3 Economic newcomers will find this site resourceful, as 'NCEA Economics' is a website containing, everything needed to pass exams.
We the team at whynotonline.com wish you all the best with your new website.
Calendar module relaunched as the Diary Module
Dear all,You might have seen and used the Calendar Module which we did at Whynotonline.com, and published on the SilverStripe.org website. The name of the module has been creating some Naming conflicts with some other modules, So we at Whynotonline.com and Ingo from SilverStripe discussed about how to aviod this conflicts, and planned to use a very generic name for the module we did. Now you can find our module with a new name called the "Diary Module". Also we noticed that the module is now in the supported modules list, lately it was there in the unsupported list.
Though this is a new name, all the codes and the functionalities are still the same, and now we are planning to make this more useable. Here are some points which we have in mind to integrate to the module with the next release.
- To diplay the events for the hours of the days. (just like how google calendar works)
- To add member subscriptions to the module (where people can be informed about the new events)
- PDF or CSV generation (to get a PDF or a CVS file)
All of you are welcomed to use the form below to make your comments about the module, and as the name has changed now the URL of the module is also changed here is it http://silverstripe.org/diary-module/.
GREETS
Calendar Module for SilverStripe
We are proud to anounce that our very own silverstripe expert and chief designer Nivanka has been able to develop a complete module for the silverstripe CMS.
The silverstripe organization has accepted the module to their growing collection of modules and is now available at the SilverStripe Official Module Directory, click here for the demo website.
The module allows your silverstripe website to have a calendar as a web page enabling you to post activities, meetings, schedules or anything really, on a clear and easily understandable time line presenting your visitors the most important facilities "ease of use and clarity".
Nivanka has already implemented this module on a live website check it out.
We at whynotonline salute Nivanka's hard work and creativity, and are proud to have him at whynotonline.
Thank you Nivanka !
For the whynotonline team,
Dasun
Bilingual website development
We are proud to present to you a new plugin for the silverstripe CMS developed by our resident silverstripe expert Nivanka. This is a very useful plugin for developing web sites that have a broader potential viewing public, which is achieved through the use of more than one language.
Unlike other multilingual plugins out there this one is very very easy to use, and build websites with. This plugin allows you to switch between any two languages you prefer. For example you could have a combination of a global language like english,spanish,etc. for the target global audience and a local language like polish, hindi,sinhalese,etc. to cater to a local audience.
We are extremely proud and confident of this plugin and you will soon see our developments using this plugin. We hope that you too will be aided in your online efforts by this plugin.
This plugin is also available at the official silverstripe site :
http://www.silverstripe.com/extending-hacking-silverstripe-forum/flat/225382
Nivanka has done a great job!
Well done Nivanka,
Nivanka our main developer and founder of whynotonline.com did 8 widgets to the SilverStripe Open Source CMS this month. All of them are approved by the SilverStripe and now anyone can download them fromthe SilverStripe website
Also he spent his leisure time in the SilverStripe IRC and if he is not there, anyone can find him at nivanka.blogspot.com
We wish him all the success.
Keep it up!
SilverStripe Sinhala Translation
We are proud to mention that our most lovable CMS SilverStripe, has a Sinhala version now. Nivanka and Himali did a great job to translate it.
We are sure that after this translation we can server our local customers better than ever, as they can do anything to their website in Sinhala, you will feel that you are at home. We will take the hard part of your job, setting up the site coding HTML / CSS, customizing and all after that you can enjoy your website.
Contact us if you have any work which we can help you
Most promising open-source CMS 2008
SilverStripe Open Source CMS made it to the finals as the "most promising open-source CMS" at Packtpub CMS Awards.
We are really happy because we use SilverStripe to run our websites as well as for our projects.
Now we all can vote SilverStripe to help it to get into the top three.
I made my vote, click here if you didnt vote yet.
