Macron support in WYSIWYG Character Map

Just in time for Mâori Language Day on 14 September, we’re adding support for macronised vowels in the MySource Matrix WYSIWYG editor.

This makes it really easy to write correctly macronised Mâori text on websites running on MySource Matrix. To add a macronised vowel, the web editor simply selects from a drop down list in the WYSIWYG Character Map.

The new Character Map with the macron vowel characters will be included in and from versions 3.22.4 stable and 3.24.0 stable.

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur award for JP

Squiz group MD, Sydney-based John-Paul Syriatowicz (‘JP’ for short), has won Australia’s Eastern Region (NSW + ACT) award for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, in the Technology and Emerging Industries category.

The award recognises JP’s leadership in Squiz’s international success: “Today, Squiz is one the world’s largest web content management vendors, with 170 staff across five countries. The company is the creator of MySource, described by Gartner as one of the world’s top five open source content management systems.”

Good luck to JP for the national awards.

About the awards /  JP intro video

Accessible web designer

Squiz NZ interaction designer Curdin Krummenacher has long championed accessible design, and has now been accepted into the Guild of Accessible Web Designers.

GAWDS is a worldwide association "...promoting a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design."

Upcoming CMS events

• MySource Matrix International User Conference, Hobart, October 26 – 27. NZ contact: Kathy Olsen, phone (04) 805 0098.
• Open source CMS Seminar, Wellington, November 18, (morning). In the inevitable trend towards browser-centric information management, a powerful, integrated search will play an increasingly important role in content management.
• Funnelback Search Seminar, Wellington, November 18, (afternoon). 
• MySource Matrix NZ User Workshop,Wellington, November 19.

Professional web content management training

Squiz is running the following training courses in September, at our training lab in Wellington.

View Training Courses / Training Schedule / Training Registration Form

Enquiries, email training@squiz.co.nz, or contact: Kathy Olsen, phone (04) 801 0098 extension 861.  

New MySource Matrix sites

• Living Greener  launched by the Hon Peter Garrett, Australia's Minister for the Environment.  
• Tasmanian Road Safety Task Force website.  
• University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business.
  
• OzArts – Australia Council for the Arts showcase of Australia’s contemporary arts.
  
• Asialink – Australia’s leading centre for the promotion of public understanding of the countries of Asia and of Australia’s role in the region.
  
• Wills month – campaign micro-site supporting Public Trust's Wills Month.  
  
• Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology – CPIT's Internet site gets a quick reskinning. 
  
• Selwyn District Council Libraries - migrate their Internet site on to MySource Matrix.
  

Feet First crew champion plain English

Congratulations to NZ Transport Agency’s Raewyn Baldwin, Jamie Sitzia and content contributors from local councils and schools around the country. The Feet First website and campaign resources have been shortlisted for the 2009 WriteMark Plain English Awards, in the Plain English Champion — Best Project Award category.

Fast forward on the youtube channel

For a quick preview of some key technology trends in enterprise web content management, check out Squiz’s new youtube channel.

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