Silex website builder
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| Developer(s) | Alexandre Hoyau, Pierre Teissière, Pol Goasdoué, founders |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.5 / 2015 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Website builder |
| License | GPL |
| Website | Silex official website |
Silex is a free website builder, that can be used directly in your browser. The skills needed to edit a website depend on what needs to be done : use the drag and drop / WYSIWYG interface to intuitively edit a website, or the integrated CSS and Javascript editors to add styles and interactivity to the elements.[1][2]
Silex is a free and open source alternative to proprietary website builders like Wix.com, Weebly, Jimdo or Squarespace.[3]
History
- Founded in 2003 by Alexandre Hoyau, Pol Goasdoué and Pierre Teissière. The project is oriented towards video and cross media.[4]
- In 2005, the version v0-6 is presented at the WWDC2005 in Cupertino California.[5] Apple is interested in Flash capacity to compete with their QuickTime plug-in. Macromedia has just been acquired by Adobe, Apple’s main partner.
- In 2006, the program was presented in several conferences at La Villette and won a challenge organized by Dauphine high school with INRIA - French National institute for research in computer science and control. The program at this time was mainly used for freelancers small projects.
- In 2007, Silex source code officially released as open source[6]
- In 2008, Silex was among the 100 first Open Source projects on SourceForge. Silex v1 is released.[7][8]
- In 2009, Silex was project of the month on SourceForge.[9] The program was presented Silex at several French conference: Futur en Seine,[10] Les Trophées du Libre,[11] Pas sage en Seine,[12] Wikiplaza [13]
- In 2010, the team members formalized their cooperation by creating a non profit organization for promotion, deployment support, and development of open source software projects related to Silex and Open Source Flash.[14] The organization became the official maintainer of AMFPHP, a mature communautary project.[15]
- In 2012, Silex has reached the 100.000 downloads.[16] And the team has made a dedicated version for HTML, the html5 editor,[17] which was downloaded 1000 times on the first month.[18]
Features
Functionalities:[19]
- WYSIWYG environment to edit a publication with drag and drop
- HTML, CSS and javascript code editors included
- suitable for prototyping
- web based, can be installed locally, on a web server or as a portable app
- free templates and plugins
| Free | Own your data | Type of websites | WYSIWYG / Drag'n drop | Use of CSS/JS/HTML | Widgets and templates | Self hosted / downloadable | Static web page | Technical skills required | Time to learn the basics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silex | Yes (foss) | Yes | Showcase / small websites | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ** | 1h |
| WordPress | Yes (oss) | Yes | Any type and size | No | Yes (+PHP) | Yes | Yes | No | *** | 4h |
| Wix | Yes (freemium) | No | Showcase / small websites | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | * | 1h |
| Jekyll | Yes (foss) | Yes | Any type and size | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | **** | 4h |
References
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/silex-v2-0-part-1-the-vision/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/silex-v2-0-part-2-what-is-it-exactly/
- ↑ Silex alternatives
- ↑ http://silex-ria.org/?/open.source.flash.cms/silex/a.propos/histoire/presentation
- ↑ http://www.flex888.com/1194/silex-the-june-sourceforge-potm.html
- ↑ http://sourceforge.net/projects/silex/files/
- ↑ http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=192954&ugn=silex&type=&mode=alltime
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2009/06/stat-is-stuck/
- ↑ http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-200906/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2009/05/silex-on-the-scene/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2009/06/soisson-pour-les-nuls/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2009/06/423/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/fr/2009/06/the-sunday-workshop-inside-wikiplaza/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/the-blog/en/a-propos/
- ↑ http://amfphp.sourceforge.net/about.html
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/135295/the-blog/new-record-for-silex/
- ↑ http://www.html5-editor.org/
- ↑ http://www.silexlabs.org/groups/silex/silex-users/forum/topic/html5-editor-based-on-silex-more-than-1000-downloads-in-1-mois/
- ↑ http://www.thetechlabs.com/latest/web-roundups-7-free-flash-cms/
External links
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