Category Archives: News & Updates

Surreal CMS No Longer on UserVoice

Published on December 13, 2011

We would like to inform the Surreal CMS community that as of today, December 13th 2011, we will no longer be accepting feedback through our UserVoice account.  This isn’t to say that we don’t want or value your opinions, it … Continue reading →

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TinyMCE Table Dropdown Plugin

Published on December 12, 2011

If you’ve ever used TinyMCE for table editing, you’ll know that the experience isn’t usually a good one.  To prevent clutter, most developers configure the toolbar to have just the Insert/Edit Table button, which isn’t nearly enough to do anything … Continue reading →

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The jQuery Notification Plugin

Published on November 15, 2011

Today we’re releasing another jQuery plugin that was born of necessity.  It’s a small, but incredibly useful notification system inspired by both Growl and the volume/mute notifications that can be seen in iOS.

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jQuery MiniColors (a color selector for input controls)

Published on February 24, 2011

While developing Tranquility CMS, we found the need for a simple jQuery-based color picker.  What we wanted was something very simple, preferably something that piggy-backed an input control.  While we found an extensive number of color picker plugins available, we … Continue reading →

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Surreal CMS Celebrates 10,000 Websites

Published on October 1, 2010

On November 11, 2008, we reached a huge milestone in our company’s history.  That was the day we launched our first web-based content management service. Almost two years later, on October 1st, 2010, we are excited to announce that Surreal … Continue reading →

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Surreal CMS Adds Change Notifications

Published on July 17, 2010

A lot of designers have been asking for this lately, so we decided to launch Change Notifications over at Surreal CMS today.  This new feature allows Pro users to receive emails whenever their editors publish changes to any of their … Continue reading →

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Why Adobe InContext Editing Will Never Be the Same

Published on April 22, 2010

Adobe’s recent announcement to discontinue their free InContext Editing service has surprised and outraged many web designers.  However, the service isn’t really being discontinued.  Instead, it is getting integrated with Adobe’s Business Catalyst service.  As a result, come 2011, designers … Continue reading →

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Adobe InContext Editing Users Speak Out

Published on April 22, 2010

First and foremost, I am not targeting Adobe as a company, but rather their decision to abruptly end the InContext Editing content management service.  It is evident by the recent uproar in their own forum that many people feel misled, … Continue reading →

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Adobe Discontinues InContext Editing Service

Published on April 12, 2010

Adobe has announced that, effective May 5th, 2010, their InContext Editing service will be discontinued.  The company has announced that they will cease development of the online content management service and disallow new users and website registrations at that time.  … Continue reading →

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Facebook Speeds up PHP with HipHop

Published on February 2, 2010

PHP is by far my favorite server-side scripting language, so it comes as no surprise that I’m really excited about HipHop for PHP.  HipHop was developed over at Facebook and serves as a means to speed up code execution and … Continue reading →

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