Smeego CMS Goes Live: Is this a Dream Web Development Opportunity?
Smeego is a newly released content management system that you may mistake for PHP Nuke. The developer sold PHP- Nuke and has since moved on releasing Smeego CMS on June 5th as an open source web portal software. Many PHP-Nuke enthusiasts are already converting.
Business Development Opportunity
Released under the terms of the GNU/GPL license, Smeego can be used to develop commercial web properties at no cost. You can in-turn sell these web properties without any restrictions or licensing troubles. This is a major bonus for web developers of all kinds especially those who are currently developing blogs and businesses on platforms like WordPress. Smeego provides an alternate and promising avenue for developing websites.
User Generated Content & Social Actions
The out-dated concept of the “web portal” is now beginning to merge with social networking features, focusing on users sharing content and contributing to a community of like minded individuals. Smeego champions user powered content with friendly features that allow submissions of blogs, downloads, links, articles and news from your website visitors.
Features and Functionality
- Fully integrated File Downloads manager
- Open submission Links Directory
- Email to Friend and Printer Friendly Pages
- Automatically generated Mobile friendly version
- Theme/template system
- FAQ Manager
- Website Statistics
- Polls and Surveys manager
- Reviews manager (Books, games, etc.)
- Banner Advertising manager
As you can see from the list above, Smeego has some seriously cool features. This comprehensive CMS also has module management. New modules and features will be released by developers in the coming weeks.
Smeego Case Study: XboxMVP.com
Immediately after hearing about the release of Smeego a few days ago I downloaded a copy and choose to give it a go as a development option for my domain, XboxMVP.com which has great community potential.
This project starts off as one of the default templates called “Orange” which comes bundled with Smeego. I did some simple modifications to the CSS style options, then created a graphical logo and header design to replace the default white box and orange slice.
“Blocks” were customized to make their titles more relevant to the Xbox niche. Several blocks (Statistics, Advertising. etc.) were not needed during initial development and were deactivated from public view.
Now all that is left to do is promote and create content which is easily managed through the Reviews, News, Polls, and Stories modules!
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June 8th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Thanks for the information Mark. I just invested in 10 domains that should fair well if this CMS takes off.
-Bill
June 8th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
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June 9th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I am trying to put up a page with Smeego at livenetconference.com. So far the program seems easy to use and has some nice features.
This is a real noob question, but how do i create a block or module for my adsense ads? i tried to put in my adsense code but the system does not take it. There does not seem to be any support or even online forums for Smeego.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Thanks mark. i’m ALWAYS on the look out for new CMS’s. i have this idea in my head of a killer CMS, but just not the brains to put it to work. definitely gonna check this out.
thus far, the one i’ve found most joy from using out the box is snews (which is fantastic), but it lacks a couple of things.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
ha ha…love that pig
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I have been using phpnuke platinum for about 4 years for my website and I will look into Smeego
Govindji Patel
July 12th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I don’t know…. I still like Joomla better.