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Interested in helping us usability test our sites?

In order for websites to remain relevant and useful, we believe it's important to usability test them on a regular basis. We don't only recommend this to our clients, but we practice it too.It's been just over a year since we redesigned silverstripe.com and the best way to check whether...

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Some thoughts on SilverStripe as a building block

SilverStripe is a great CMS, and now that we have our new product marketing manager Kerstin on board, we've taken some time to rethink the best ways to describe just what makes it so great. We're in a bit of an unusual position being a private company curating an open...

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Announcing SilverStripe Developer Network

We're very proud to officially announce the SilverStripe Developer Network! The goal of the network is to help build the global community of companies who can build and support SilverStripe sites in their local markets.

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Conversation

Hello. I'm Brian Boyko, and I'm one of SilverStripe's newer hires. They brought me on board in mid-May as the company's full-time writer. I'm responsible for anything that involves the written word. And since blog posts, forum notices, and tweets all involve the written word, I'm working on those things...

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Join our website showcase!

We've created a new RSS feed so you can be a part of the steady stream of new SilverStripe powered websites added each day:

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Google Highly Open Participation Awards Ceremony held at the Googleplex

Late last year, Google launched a global software contest for highschool students called the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest. The contest boasted some impressive statistics: nearly 400 students around the world contributed a total of about 1000 tasks for ten software projects over a very busy two-month period.

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How can I help fix SilverStripe bugs?

Becoming a valuable community member of SilverStripe is really easy: just read the How To Contribute section of the community pages, and if you are still unsure, suggest some ideas on the forum and have the community delegate tasks and work with you! There are all sorts of ways to...

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Upload your widgets to us!

We've now added a form to submit your widgets so that they feature on our widgets download page.

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Forum Reorganised

We've made some improvements to the online infrastructure that runs the SilverStripe community.

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