SiteFrame

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SiteFrame

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Developed by	Glen Campbell
Latest release	5.0.5 / 04-09-2007
OS	Independent
Genre	Content management systems
License	Creative Commons
Website	Siteframe.org

SiteFrame is a light content management system for use for many types of websites including weblogs and community driven websites created by Glen Campbell. It stores information in a MySQL database, and is scripted using PHP. The current version is 5.0 dubbed "Beaumont", named after a small town in Texas. Beaumont uses the Smarty PHP template engine to organize and display all content. Unlike most CMS's Siteframe does not use a GPL license, but instead it's licensed under the Creative Commons license. The other two previous versions that work without Smarty, PHP 5 or MYSQL 4.1 can also be downloaded off the site for those unable to use PHP 5 or MYSQL 4.1 on their web server. Siteframe is free software.

[edit] History

Siteframe began as a set of PHP scripts developed by Glen Campbell for a Contax G camera, photo sharing website, named "The Contax G Pages", Glen developed an application in PHP which he called Siteframe. Versions 1 and 2 were developed in a relatively short time frame, version 3.0 was released in 2001 and to this day is maintained. Glen also developed a lighter version of Siteframe with improved technologies nicknamed La Grange which adopted the fourth version number and was meant to be lighter, however this project was abandoned in favor for Siteframe Beaumont. Version 5.0 Beaumont began development in late 2004 and was released in December 2005, this version provided numerous improvements as well as an overhaul in the underlying architecture and replacing a proprietary templating engine with Smarty, this version is actively maintained and the latest is 5.0.5 released on September 04, 2007. While the version 3 series is actively maintained for users without MYSQL 4.1 or PHP 5.

[edit] Use

Siteframe is primarily aimed for communities where a group of people share e-mail, photos and blogs. Later versions of Siteframe provide support for tagging and photo sharing. Siteframe also serves as adequate photo gallery software, mostly derived from the fact Siteframe can be used to store and manage photos. Siteframe also supports user profiling and folder management, where users can create "folders" much like categories and store content in those folders.