Surreal CMS Now Offers Demo Websites

Surreal CMS is a platform that integrates with existing websites to bring you inline editing and other content management functionality. It has been designed for web designers with clients who wish to modify their websites quickly and easily. Until now, there was no way to demo Surreal CMS without hooking it up to an existing website. But that just changed. As of today, you can test the features of Surreal CMS on a demo website before you commit to bringing it to your own web property. That’s not to say the integration process was ever too bad, though. The addition of some simple code into your website’s header does the trick. However, this update certainly makes things easier for prospective users. An Intro to Surreal CMS Manage all your websites and clients from one account. Surreal CMS connects to your websites using FTP, SFTP, or Amazon S3. You can then give clients access to specific pages or page areas, allowing them to edit their content inline. It's pretty sleek. Surreal C
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My Children’s Summer Odes to Buzzing Gardens

Did you know that I come from a long line of beekeepers? One may wonder why I m so very passionate about bees and their place in our world, but when you learn that I am the first generation in a LONG time that hasn t kept bees (as my Dad likes to remind all three of us [ ] The post My Children s Summer Odes to Buzzing Gardens appeared first on The Kitchen Magpie.
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7 Ways Wix Nails Search Engine Optimization

Nowadays, the average small or medium sized business owner will know about the importance of SEO (search engine optimization) even before they begin building their website. Website builders like Wix are of course ideal for such businesses, and thanks to the platform’s global success, they have had the luxury of honing their SEO features alongside their innovative page building functionality. In fact, Wix offers up seven simple ways to nail your website’s SEO campaign: 1. Blogging That’s right, blogging is still the most important ingredient in an SEO campaign – and Wix has it covered. With Wix, you can add a blog to your website with ease, just like any other page element. Then, you can begin publishing blog posts that will contribute towards to quality of your website’s search engine optimization through keywords and social sharing. Learn more about the benefits of blogging with Wix. 2. Page Meta Tags Meta tags aren’t visible to your website visitors, but they are visible
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Marketo Unveils Account Based Marketing Features

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is the new acronym on the block – Marketo just made sure of it. The world renowned marketing automation software has fully embraced ABM, which essentially allows marketers to target specific accounts, and specific decision makers within those accounts. It's basically personalization, except better. Here's how it works: Marketo ABM: A Summary Marketo ABM empowers marketing and sales teams with the right tools to target and engage specific accounts in more relevant and personalized ways. More specifically, it allows marketing teams to: Target the accounts that matter: By leveraging account and lead-level scoring, marketers can easily target the right accounts and the right people within those accounts with personalized campaigns. Deeply engage accounts and key decision-makers across channels: This includes working through channels likes email, web, ads, events, social, and mobile; use rich customer behaviors captured in Marketo's Audience Hub to deliver h
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CMS Critic to Attend Gartner DWS 2016

We love attending a good conference, so when Liferay – the renowned digital experience platform – invited us to join them as their guests at Gartner DWS 2016, we couldn't say yes fast enough. Traditionally, the Gartner DWS (Digital Workplace Summit) is a conference that brings together analysts and brands in posession of vast experience in the world of business software. Basically, if you're looking for software experts, you'll find them at Gartner's conferences. The Gartner DWS 2016 will be a two day conference, kicking off on September 21st and ending on the 22nd. The venue is set to be the prestigious Park Plaza Westminster hotel located in the heart of London – which just happens to be my home city. Why Attend Gartner DWS 2016? As mentioned previously, the CMS Critic team has always traveled far and wide to attend business software events, but I'm particularly excited about attending Gartner DWS 2016. Why? Because I'll get to: Expand my knowledge of emerging technologies in
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Sendy Review - Cheap Email Marketing for the Masses

If you are in the market for an inexpensive, yet powerful email marketing platform for your business (or multiple brands) then you are in luck. In this Sendy review, we'll provide you with all of the details about this low cost alternative. Email Marketing platforms such as AWeber, Constant Contact and others are great solutions but they can end up getting costly as your subscriber count increases. Fortunately, there are alternative solutions out there. In our case here at CMS Critic, we found that as our subscribers grew, we were creeping up on over $100 / month for a traditional cloud based email marketing platform. We decided to explore alternatives and ended up landing on a great self hosted email marketing solution called Sendy. What makes Sendy great is that not only is it hosted on our own servers (and btw requires very little overhead) as well as using Amazon SES in order to send out the emails. The good thing here is that Amazon SES is extremely inexpensive and highly reliabl
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django CMS 3.4 Released With Long Term Support

django CMS 3.4 is here, and it's the first release of the free and open source CMS that comes with long-term support (LTS). In my django CMS review which I published a few months back, I remarked that: "There's no doubt about it, Django CMS is an excellent platform for projects large and small. It's simple enough for anybody to approach, although its true potential will need to be unlocked by a developer familiar with Python." Matteo Larghi, the CXO of django CMS, gave CMS Critic an exclusive comment as he and the rest of the django CMS team released version 3.4, saying that, "this is a historic date since it's the first Long-Term Support version." django CMS 3.4: What's New? The video above does a good job of explaining the new features that can be found within django CMS 3.4, but here are the highlights: An Improved editing experience: The Edit page view now displays complex content better. We've removed some extraneous markup and made some fundamental changes to the editing model t
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