Pure Software Product Blog

We are pleased to announce the official launch and availability of Cerizmo, our latest product. This marks our entry into the hosted, “software as a service” market.

Cerizmo is an e-commerce system designed for selling digital goods (anything that can be downloaded). It allows you to sell files of all kinds: software, ebooks, screencasts, templates, digital artwork, documents, forms, and more.

It provides everything you need to start selling - a customizable online store, a control panel to manage it, payment integration, and automatic delivery of downloads to your customers. There’s no software to install or configure - we manage everything on our servers.

As you could probably imagine, we use Cerizmo to market and deliver our own software.

To learn more, visit the official Cerizmo website.

We will be offering significant discounts to existing Pure Software customers. Are you already in the digital product market, or thinking about getting started? Now is the perfect time to start. Contact sales for more information!

We are pleased to announce the release of QuizShock 1.6.4, which includes a new phpBB3 integration module. As with other user integration modules, it allows your forum users to log into QuizShock with their existing credentials, and also updates all of QuizShock’s related links to point to your forum (user profile, forgot password, etc.)

The integration module has been tested with the latest phpBB3 release (3.0.0). It should be ready to use with any new phpBB3 forum installation - just follow the included instructions for the phpBB3 module. For bug reports or any setup questions, please email support.

The next major release of Lore, version 1.7.0, is now under heavy development.

There should be some minor bugfixes, although no security issues yet. But let’s get on to the important stuff - major changes and new features!

New Fulltext Search Engine

The new fulltext search system in Lore 1.7.0 will solve many of the issues with the old one - the “50% rule” headaches, lack of weighting in article titles/keywords/content, and minimum number of articles. This new system will take advantage of features in MySQL 4.0 and greater - so Lore will no longer run on the (now legacy) 3.23 version of MySQL. You will be able to fully customize the weighting of each of the three search fields - article titles, article keywords, and the article body itself. More weight means more relevancy. By default, titles and keywords will have the most weight, followed by article body.

New Frontend Interface

Lore is long overdue for an overhaul of the end-user interface. With the current trend in simple, streamlined web interfaces with less clutter - we figured this would be a perfect match for Lore. The ultimate goal of your knowledge base is to help your customers find their answers as quickly as possible. We want Lore to do just that, by pointing them in the right direction, and then getting out of their way.

New WYSIWYG Editor with Image Upload Support!

We’re scrapping Xinha, which is unfortunately quite bloated and difficult to customize. Simply adding this to the Lore package triples its size - and that’s after we removed dozens of useless plugins. We will be replacing Xinha with FCKEditor - a lightweight and highly customizable WYSIWYG editor. And best of all, it will include the image browser pre-configured, so you can upload and insert images right from the editor.

Require Login to view Knowledge Base

You will now be able to create “regular” users via the control panel, and require that they log in to view the knowledge base. This is optional, of course, so you can still leave your knowledge base publicly accessible if you prefer.

All changes and features are tentative and may change without notice. We currently do not have a set release date for Lore 1.7.0, but we will keep you posted.

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