Site Foundry
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Site Foundry [1] is a proprietary web 2.0 modular content management system designed specifically for web agencies to resell and re-brand accordingly. Site Foundry is based on four key values: flexibility, extensibility, portability and simplicity. These resulting values mean Site Foundry is used worldwide by Blue Chip companies for enterprise level websites as well as small businesses for brochure sites with a limited budget. The ownness is with the incumbent web agency and how they wish to implement Site Foundry and to what level.
Site Foundry is written in PHP and uses MySQL for its database. The templating system is designed to support XHTML and CSS in a semantically correct fashion for SEO and accessibility purposes.
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[edit] History
Site Foundry was invented by Tim Southcombe in November 2005 and is now a product of IQ Development [2]. Site Foundry has matured since 2005, which was originally aimed towards the small business market. Version 1.0, despite being very easy to use, wasn't flexible enough for web agencies to implement on varied sites. Version 2.0, which was a complete re-write, introduced secure AJAX transactions and a page object model. This allowed agencies to ensure their designs from Photoshop & Illustrator were recreated pixel perfect in Site Foundry and every aspect of the site was content managed.
IQ Development continually develop Site Foundry and write bespoke modules either for single or multiple use. These bespoke modules are built to order and exacting requirements from web agencies.
[edit] Features
- White Label / Brandable
A backend branding allowance for one logo and two colours - Modular
The option to use off-the-shelf modules or have bespoke ones built - Usability - AJAX
No page refresh and therefore changes are made instantly with ease - Pages Management
Site Foundry supports three level of page navigation with the option to use additional menus wherever required. Text editing is via a WYSIWYG editor (Tiny MCE) - Media Management
Supports JPEG, Flash, GIF, PNG, Quicktime, WMV, PDF, Word, FLV, Excel, Powerpoint & MP3 - Templates
Full XHTML and CSS support with the ability to content managed an unlimited amount of editable areas - Administration Levels
Administration levels rolls can be created. Each roll can be either allowed/denied access to every aspect of the system from input fields to core functions and modules.
Site Foundry uses AJAX, Smarty, OO PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, Mail Handlers, ZIP compression technology.
[edit] Server Requirements
Ideal server requirements (based on a Linux server)
- PHP 5.2
- MySQL 5.1
- Full mod_rewrite access
- GD 2 and fileInfo (for additional security)
- Apache 2.2
Site Foundry also works in an IIs/ISA environment which requires ISAPI rewrite [3] to perform the mod_rewrite functions.
