Posts Tagged ‘Alternative software’
Web design with DFM2HTML
October 3rd, 2009 | 
Author: I’ve been meaning to write about this little wonder for a while now. DFM2HTML is a very unusual web editor. Yes, it’s WYSIWYG (sort of), but it’s much, much more powerful than most WYSIWYG editors. Why? Because the concept of “nesting” is used throughout – every aspect of the program is governed by this CSS/XML concept, which makes it both exceptionally flexible and (occasionally) irritatingly quirky. But the flexibility vastly outweighs the quirks, especially in the latest version, 3.5.
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Software – the alternatives
We’ve been working in the SME/SMB sector for nearly 20 years, and over that time we’ve used and experimented with an awful lot of software. Why?
Open-source collaboration
Over the years, we’ve been keeping a very close eye on open-source content management systems, wikis and other collaboration platforms. Finally, about 18 months ago, we took the plunge and set up our extranet using open-source software (switching away from a Microsoft SharePoint-hosted site in the process).
Leaf Networks
Leaf is an extraordinary product – it amazes me that so few people know about it or mention it – and for the small business that is moving to a virtual model, with employees working remotely or from home, it is one of the best existing solutions to the far-from-resolved Collaboration Challenge (pace Microsoft SharePoint, with which I have wrestled to the point of psychosis!).
EssentialPIM
EssentialPIM is a very simple but surprisingly powerful PIM (personal information manager, hence the PIM in the name…), which comes in two versions, a Free version and a Pro version. Neither of them is open-source, but the developer has made some convincing commitments to maintaining a free version of the program for the foreseeable future.
Musings on software
Software is something about which many thousands of unbalanced words are written. A given feature in a particular application may be the subject at once of rapturous praise and virulent criticism. Something that is perceived as elegant simplicity by one user is denigrated as feature-poor or inadequate by another.
And then, of course, there’s the pricing…
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