An Azure Cloud product Textpattern: A flexible, elegant and easy-to-use CMS powered by Niles Partners. Textpattern is an elegant content management system that is free, open source software. Web designers, developers, publishers and bloggers love its flexibility and extensibility. It has a powerful, sophisticated engine that can be infinitely tuned to suit whatever type of web site you can imagine.

We are launching a product which will configure and publish Textpattern, an elegant content management system which is embedded pre-configured tool with LAMP and ready-to-launch machine image on Azure Cloud that contains Textpattern, Apache, MySQL, Linux, PHP (LAMP).

Textpattern uses built-in tags to determine how dynamic content should be retrieved and displayed. You have complete control over the content and presentation, making the CMS both simple and elegant to use.

User interaction features include:

• Direct, easy to follow interface.
• Quick conversion of plain text to valid XHTML with Textile.
• Flexible engine for all kinds of websites, from blogs to corporate sites.
• Unlimited site sections, page layout and styling.
• Anti-spam comment system that works well.
• Thoroughly tested by the community before each release.
• Unlimited site authors can be assigned a variety of posting, editing and design privileges.
• Human-readable clean URLs help SEO and visitors.
• Forum is renowned for its friendly, helpful community.
• Developers listen and solve problems.
• Versatile plugin concept.
• Wide range of plugins provides many extra functions
• Upload and organize images and files via your browser
• Categorise your content the way you wish
• Quickly convert plain text to valid XHTML with Textile
• Offer clean URLs to help SEO and visitors
• Take full control of date and time of articles
• Accept comments on any article in your site — you control for how long
• Set up unlimited site authors with varying privilege levels to collaborate with others on sites
• Allow visitors to subscribe to a tailored assortment of web feeds
• Take action with up-to-the-minute visitor/referrer logs
• Textpattern is standards-compliant by default
• Unlimited sections, page layout and styling can be created
• Template and CSS editing is browser-based
• File and image upload and organization is browser-based
• Plugin installation and maintenance is browser-based
• Content can be imported from other content management systems