News

English front-end language for Elxis 2008.1 was published today at Elxis Downloads Center. The new language package can be safely used at 2008.0 powered web sites too (backwards compatibility). In this new version some new language strings were added at the end of the english.php file for the automatically multi-lingual module titles feature that added in Elxis 2008.1. Use this language package to translate elxis front-end to other languages. English Elxis 2008.1 front-end language

Elxis 2008.1 introduces Oracle database! Oracle is the third officially supported and fully usable database type Elxis is compatible with. For this reason the build-in ADOdb library updated to the latest version and Elxis installer updated in order for Oracle to be installed successfully. Many other changes made to Elxis inner procedures in order database queries to become more SQL native and friendlier to other database types. The driver used for Oracle is the oci8 driver. Welcome Oracle!

Any Elxis forum member is now able to freely post Job-Offering Ads at the forum requesting Elxis related services. We hope that this new service will increase the collaboration between users, extend and spread Elxis CMS as a professional solution for building web sites and lead to the creation of better Elxis sites making people happier. If you are seeking a developer, or a designer, or any other professional to assist you with any Elxis related job then place your ad at the Elxis forum and wait for user responses. On the other hand if you offer Elxis related services, you are a freelancer, a company, or an individual, Job-Offering Ads can increase your income and spread your business. Notice that you have to be a registered user in order to be able to view, post or reply to an ad. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds. Please read carefully the Terms and Conditions for this service before you begin. You must comply to these terms as well as to the Elxis terms for professionals in order to participate.

New extensions for Elxis 2008.x were published recently to Elxis Downloads Center. IOS Image Rotator provides you with a simple (yet eye-candy) image rotating mechanism for the Elxis CMS! Image Rotator can rotate custom images or Elxis banners. Images fade out producing a nice effect. Sliding Toolbox 2 is a javascript based, sliding module container by Ivan Trebjesanin. Component Appendix by IOS creates alphanumeric Indices for your Elxis sections. When an Alpha Index letter (or digit) is clicked then component Appendix will show you all the content items, starting from this letter (or digit) for the selected section. Appendix alternatively can show you the categories starting from that letter. Elxis Couloir Gallery module takes images from a folder you specify and displays them in Couloir slideshow. If you click on an image it is shown in a lightbox window. You can control slideshow speed or even disable it.

We are happy to announce that Elxis Serbia is back online after few days, and it is now stronger with new power of Elxis 2008. Also, there is new Serbian board at the official Elxis Forum. We hope you like it and you will come back for more. Downloads section has been removed, because we now have Elxis Downloads Center. You may find translations there, along with some nice extensions, components, documentation, etc... Hopefully, this will be the new beginning for Serbian Elxis Community, and we hope to see more local Elxis community sites soon.

We are very happy to see that the Elxis's 2008 generation attracts more users to the Elxis CMS every day. This is shown by the total Elxis downloads. Only during the first week since it's release, Elxis 2008 reached 1500 downloads! We would like to thank all of you for your preference to the Elxis CMS, you give us the strength to continue and make Elxis even better!

Elxis.org web site was re-created from scratch. The site now reflects the new path to freedom and open source that Elxis CMS follows. The appearance is inspired by the mozilla website. We think it is much more user friendly, has a clear, solid structure and it is much more easier to navigate. The site has a minimum content now. More content and guides will be added soon. The new elxis.org web site was created with Elxis 2008 by Is Open Source (Ioannis Sannos). We hope you like it!

Elxis Team welcomes its new member, Ivan Trebjesanin (a.k.a Jazzman). Ivan has been a loyal friend of Elxis for months. As an Elxis forum member he helped users by providing free support and at the same time he spread Elxis in Serbia by creating a local Elxis community there. Ivan quickly became an Elxis Community member and afterwards, on January 2008, he joined Elxis Team.