Demo site and source for Chameleon Menu Manager released

After the recent debate about Chameleon’s source and destination, we have cleaned up our Chameleon documentation and will start with regulare updates on this blog to hopefully encourage the community provide us with feedback on our plug-ins. Please stop by the official Flip Media Chameleon CMS web site or use the following credentials to access the [...]

Please stop by the official Flip Media Chameleon CMS web site or use the following credentials to access the demo site which features Flip Media’s Chameleon plug-ins such as menu manager, language manager, media manager, newsletter manager, e-Commerce manager and much more:

Site: cmsdemo.flipdevnet.com
Username: demo
Password: demo
Please note that every full hour the system is being reset to is default settings since full administrator rights are granted to the demo login user.

We are taking some additional time to do some Q&A on all of our plug-ins before releasing them back to the community (need to verify security aspects since most of them are deployed on clients’ web sites), however the menu manager programmed by Flip Media’s head of technical developments (Shuja M. Shabandri) is being released and can be downloaded here.

It supports multiple menus, languages, themes (classes), hierarchical and non-hierarchical structure, text and image based menus (with extension into Flash menus via XML parsers), and integration with categories, post items, external and internal links, static pages and seperators.

Any suggestions on the menu manager, please comment back on this blog. Thanks a lot!

comments

dotone
July 9th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Quick, respoinsive, brave, and clear.

I wish all the companies blogged and had such an opportunity to be part of the community. I can imagine how much time Flip’s team put on this just to make a point clear and get themselves clean. Now that’s great and well done!
Aaron Brazell
July 9th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
I see no problem here outside of questioning whether the Role Manager plugin by David house and Owen Winkler is included with their awareness and their blessing under a commercial project. You guys have done some nice things with the admin and I’m glad to see, internally, WordPress is credited. I have not checked to see whether it is credited in your public-facing specs yet though and that would be one thing that I personally would like to see in place.
Martin Diessner
July 9th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Thanks dotone. Four people and one weekend. We love this job and our industry and the community deserved what we did to clean up.

Now back to the game…Italy just equalled and since my girl friend is French I want France to become World Champion.

PS: Blackberry rocks
Klaus
July 9th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
Good effort - good to see a company that takes feedback seriously. Now you need to get the community to add their own plugins for public download as well.
bakkouz
July 10th, 2006 at 2:01 am
Ok, I’ve logged in and seen your work, and I must say i’m impressed, needs some tweaking though in my openion, but thats not the issue here.
Good respeonse, now thats the way its done. Thank you.
Imthiaz Blog
July 10th, 2006 at 10:52 am
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[…] Any bugs, suggesstions or comments? please leave a comment here or on Flip Media’s Website. […]
Martin Diessner
July 10th, 2006 at 11:17 am
In response to Aaron Brazell’s comment:

[..I have not checked to see whether it is credited in your public-facing specs yet though and that would be one thing that I personally would like to see in place…]

You can check the public-facing specs and documentation on our corporate website at www.flipcorp.com/chameleon

Furthermore, Aaron has been asking on Technosailer:

Additionally, when releasing the source code to customers, what are the provisions that are made. Are they forced into an NDA that is complicitly anti-GPL?

Flip Media releases the source code without signing an NDA. Some of our clients might sign a standard NDA which can be downloaded from Flip’s website but that has nothing to do with the actual Chameleon implementation.

However, we do advise our clients that once they have received the source codes, or FTP access to our server, that any support and warranty from our end is void. The reason for this is that we are unable to control what the clients is doing with the source code or FTP access, and hence Flip can not be held responsible for any action.
Martin Diessner
July 10th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Found another interesting post on WordPress blog site:

[…] I’ve been digging a lot to get a good ecommerce module to integrate into wordpress but haven’t found anything as good as the one that I can see on nayomi.com.sa ….after looking at it, can anybody comment as to what module is it and where can I get it…[…]

[…] Yes, this eCommerce is powored by WordPress. I found another website with the same eCommerce Module named: Damas […]

[…] If you visit there website now… they are giving full credit to wordpress…They do not really need to share it, because they are allowed to sell the program, but the buyer can ask for the source… […]

[…] Anyone interested in the e-Commerce module that we used on various sites such as nayomi.com.sa please email me directly on martin dot diessner at flipcorp dot com and I will see if we can release this one to you. It was a lot of hard work and we are not yet 100% done with it and will evaluate this on a case by case base, however always happy to bring things back to the community. […]
muhammadk
August 10th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
On your demo site is it possible for you to incorporate the e-commerce modules because I think many users, including myself, would like to see how they integrate into the website compared to some of the other e-commerce modules for wordpress.
Pospiech
August 12th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Is it possible to change the normal menu as well ?
My old site has 100+ menu entries. I would never want to add these all menually to the new menu (wordpress as cms, not blog).

If the menu manager can not handle the standard menu - can this be added in the future ?

Matthias

thought # 199

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Author : Martin Diessner

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July 9th, 2006 at 7:39 pm