Email marketing is now available in EPiServer CMS 5. Newsletters are popularly used for internal communication purposes or as a way to distribute customer offers. Create your newsletters with XEND and you will get the powerful sending and follow-up capabilities of Apsis Newsletter Pro integrated in EPiServer’s familiar interface. Find out how to order your demo account at http://www.cmsapps.net/

Extension 3.1 is now available in four different versions. They are all compiled with EPiServer SP 2. The release includes about 40 bug fixes and several API improvements. Contact info@cmsapps.net to find out how to download the latest version.

Global companies keep requesting courses in how to develop websites based on X3. As of now, such trainings have been conducted in Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, The Netherlands and the United States. The latest tour stop was Gridnine Systems in Russia, where three developers learned how X3 works last week. Picture of their office view in Moscow and the Kremlin wall below. Visit www.cmsapps.net to find out how to arrange a customized training course at your company site.

EPiServer launched the Create+ package as a part of the Warm Website Initiative at Partner Summit. X3 is the main part of the Create+ concept, which is to offer the optimal working tool for web editors. We are happy to be included and hope that you will appreciate the new way of thinking that X3 and its on page template creation represents. The package also includes image processing, flash presentation and email marketing modules.

EPiServers recent acquisition of Netstar creates new opportunities for building communities on the CMS platform. But as you know, we like to take things to another level. Which is exactly what we are going to do by integrating Star Commnuity with X3. Compatibility updates have already been made, so in a few weeks you should get ready to build communities with drag and drop. 

Here we are at the world’s best attended Internet event! Our first day in London went perfect. Visitors have shown a strong interest in X3 and it looks like we’ll soon be cooperating with several local EPiServer partners. And to top that off, we just signed with our first three UK customers. Pictures from the stand below.

Last week our developers Fredrik and Tomas packed their bags and flew over to Aegons United States office located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Apart from spotting miles of corn fields and watching out for the tornado warnings, their mission was to help Aegon install EPiServer CMS 5 and X3. Everything went well, which means that X3 has now officially found its way over the Atlantic.

XMAP is now available for creating image maps in EPiServer CMS 5. The plug-in allows EPiServer editors to place multiple links on a single image using hotspot drawing tools. No image editing or programming skills required. XMAP works exactly like Image Map for EPiServer 4. Order a demo account or license by sending an email to module@dropit.se

We’re happy to announce that we will be joining EPiServers stand at Internet World in London – the largest Internet show in the UK. The event will be held during April 29^th – May 1^st. Considering the increasing number of overseas prospects, we can tell the word of X3 is already spreading throughout UK. It will be great to get some face-to-face meetings, conversation and reactions on the X3 demo from people looking for the latest evolution in content management. Photos from the exhibiting days will be posted once we are back from London.

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Norwegian EPiServer partner Avenir will learn all there is to know about X3 in an all-day training session in a few weeks. Avenir has already introduced X3 to several of their customers and we are obviously excited to see the effect it will have on their upcoming projects.

Our friends at EPiServer also wanted to get acquainted with X3. So we spent the whole day today with their development team and got some great feedback.

As the queries about X3 trainings and seminars keep coming, it looks like our eminent education team will have a busy schedule ahead!