You want a new/replacement website?
But these questions - or ones very much like them - are at the forefront of your mind?

• You are through with "static" websites which never change, and seem to go "out of date" almost overnight?
• But you simply can't afford to always have someone on staff - or on contract - to keep your website up-to-date for you?
• And you yourself simply don't have the time, inclination or even the skill to build the sort of website that you really want for yourself?
• But you worry that if you don't build it yourself, how are you possibly going to know how to change it yourself?

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If you've already decided that you want to build your next website on DragonflyCMS, or think you might want to, but are unsure if you can complete it unaided, or are unsure just where to start, then please Contact Us.

We can configure the help from anything from a little paid advice, to implementing much of the website for you. But you decide, you are in the driving seat, and the one doing the work. We'll act as the tutor.    mer ...

Looking for a FOSS (Free Open Source Software) CMS released under the GPL version 2 (GNU Public License)? Then look no further than DragonflyCMS.

Looking for an advanced, powerful yet flexible, easy to use and easy to deploy module to use on Dragonfly? Then look no further than Pro_News.

The combination of DragonflyCMS and Pro_News module will give you all the tools you will need to develop, launch and maintain a website capable of everything from a simple 5-page (Home/About/Products/Services/Contact Us) through to a fully fledged business centric website with Support Forums, Reference Articles, Blogs, Downloads, WWW and Social Network links - all from the same software. And additions such a DFmaps, Storez and other specialist modules are easily obtained and installed. Details ...    mer ...

Been a while - but I just wanted to highlight the very latest generalized article footer, by posting to the Blog.

The latest footer includes all 72 Social Network icons, but most are hidden behind a 'click to show' link so that your page will look clean and minimalist. 3 icons - facebook, MySpace and twitter - are always on display, but you can easily switch those in the HTML for any icons that you wish. It also includes icon links to Printer-Friendly and Send to a Friend, plus a simple icon display for posting or reading comments, with a different icon if Comments already exist.

Additionally there is a PermaLink link (Pro_News doesn't change the links in the way that some other systems do, but the presence of a PermaLink helps to reinforce that). And the very latest addition is a link to the QR 2D Code for the page as an alternate to the PermaLink.    mer ...

As some of you may be aware, with Pro_News I've pushed the Dragonfly Template system, a variant of the SMARTY system in PHP I'm led to understand, pretty far.

I've templated pretty much everything, except repetitive lists. You might be surprised to learn that I've even added templates to the Submit Article Input screens. The reason is that you can then easily customise those Submit Article screens to remove any unneeded input fields for certain classes of users.

But slowly I discover other things which can be accomplished in the template system. Although unfortunately inserting comments isn't one of them, so the process is a slow one.

But I thought you might be interested in a new template which I've built for my own use, which adds an active graphic. Active in that it is generated entirely within the template based on 2 supplied values.

It even has an extra flourish when the goal amount is reached/exceeded!    mer ...

I hate menus. I like what menus do, keep access to a large array of selections in a small neat package. But I hate how those menus are usually used.    mer ...

So of course I now need a 2nd blog entry in order to demonstrate the new dynamic links.

It never ends!

OK, I've a little time to make this into a real entry!    mer ...

Actually something I'd been planning to do for a while, and finally got around to. Creating a Blog template for Pro_News.    mer ...

Yes, you read that correctly, I'm opening a small template store here at layingback.net.

The Template Exchange concept never really worked out, so I'm closing that forum. [ At least I don't have to archive the 0 themes which have accumulated there! ]

I'm a long time supporter of RMS (Stallman) and his GNU GPL2 and later, so rest assured that Pro_News is and will remain F/OSS: Free Libre Open Source Software. And staying with GPL2 until or unless DragonflyCMS goes GPL3. But in the meantime I need some coin to rub together, so I have come up with additional themes myself.    mer ...

Announcing an updated German language files for Pro_News 3.2. In the Downloads section.

Thanks to designSumpf for putting the work in to creating this.

As always I am more than happy to host any translation files for Pro_News. (And submission of same will earn you membership to the Sponsors group.)

File in Downloads with all the other languages available.