Exsite Webware

Exsite Webware is an operating system for your website. It provides a core framework for managing content, templates, HTTP I/O, databases, and dynamic content web applications.

A base set of applications is included with the main distribution, including a flexible website editor, database manager, simple login account manager, and a search tool.

Web Design Features
- Flexible templating system, with multiple content zones per page
- Content versioning means all your changes are archived, and you can roll back at any time
- Web pages are written out as conventional, search-engine-friendly .html files
- Template inheritance makes it easy to spin-off new templates based partially on old ones, or share templates between sites
- Online libraries for shareable images, clip-art, documents, etc
- Separation of design elements from content elements, with access controls for each
- Automatic menu and sitemap construction
- Polymorphic content model makes it easy to swap images for text for documents, and so on
- Web-based content management makes internet collaborations much easier
- WYSIWYG editing for simple updates; raw HTML mode for fine-tuning
- CSS editing
IT Features
- Highly portable toolkit based on the most common open standards
- No browser plug-ins or client-side software required
- Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and other OSes
- Works on a standard LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl/PHP) webserving configuration
- Highly scalable
- Runs any number of websites with shared services simultaneously
- Static content results in static, conventional files, reducing server load
- Runs in easy-to-configure CGI mode, or high-performance Mod_perl mode
- Plug-and-play web application installation
- Configurable logs and audit trails
- Server management plug-ins available (eg. Email, DNS)
- Simple site creation and administration tools simplify web managment in large organizations
- Flexible licensing and support options
Web Developer Features
- OSS licensing
- Perl, MySQL core system
- Compatible with all client-side programming languages
- PHP, ASP compatible
- Plug-in architecture for extensions, which can be developed in Perl or other languages
- Many plug-ins available for common website functions
- Flexible database drivers can be reprogrammed to work with nearly any data storage system
- API for simplified web database programming using the core ExSite tools
- Separately licensed plug-ins allow means application developers are not bound to the base package's license