Great news! Pixie has made it through to the finals of the Packt publishing Open Source CMS Awards in the category of "Most Promising Open Source CMS".

Once again we need your help, voting has already started and we are up against some great competition, the final five are:
Public votes will be combined with ratings from a panel of Judges with the winners announced on November 9. Packt is also giving away an 8GB iPod Touch to three lucky winners chosen randomly from the voting stage. Vote for Pixie ยป
We are proud to announce that Pixie has been nominated in the "Most Promising Open Source CMS" category of this years PacktPub CMS Awards. If you have found Pixie a useful tool we would really appreciate a vote:

Your votes (for this first stage) must be made by 10th September 2009. Thanks :)
Last Friday was Pixie's first birthday (yes.. it has taken me a week to find the time to write this post). To celebrate we thought it would be nice to reflect on some of the stats from the year and give out a few freebies as well.
Continue reading One year on...
My final university project (completed almost two years ago) was to take SMX (Pixies predecessor) and work on a new interface design. The project lasted five months and included a number of usability studies, eight variations of the design and a great deal of work to come up with something that felt unique and usable.
Continue reading Interface Design - Chapter 2 - Pixie 1.0...