Silex - An open source Flash CMS

SILEX is a open source and free RIA software which can produce Flash websites (Flash Player 7, 8 and 9).

Introduction

SILEX is a content management system that allows you to "assemble" all multimedia formats on the web but also on CD-R.

SILEX is compatible with most of Adobe based or other popular software and alllows you to publish different types of media online or on CD (interactive), while providing an array of features necessary for web publishing: SEO, description of the media, multilingual sites ...

Silex is an Open Source project aimed primarily to those wishing to quickly master a powerful tool for web publication.

This CMS (Content Management System) is based on ActionScripting, thus anyone familiar with the general principles of Quark X-Press, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop (...) will easily master Silex.

In addition, SILEX is a RIA (Rich Internet Application). This aspect of the software is particularly important: once copied to a server, SILEX is accessible from any computer connected to the web. SILEX requires no installation and is fully compatible with:

MAC (10.5)

WINDOWS (XP, VISTA)

LINUX

SILEX brings together the different profiles involved in web publishing.

Characteristics

SILEX users have chosen the tool for:

its legitimate integration into the Adobe pack

its SEO system

its multilingual function

its quick and easy grip

detailed documentation

its community of designers, developers and flashers

components and themes

lightweight

its Flash rendering features

and of course not to mentioned that Silex is constantly evolving.

Country: France

License: GPL

Target Audience: graphic designers, webmasters, web designers

Number of developers: 2

Number of contributors: 3

Resources

Website: http://silex-riarg/open.sourcelasms/

Doc and tutorials: http://www.silexlabrg/silex/docs-silex/user-guide-silex/

Online Demo: http://hoyau.info/demos/silex_server/

Mailing list: https://sourceforgeet/projects/silex/

Forum: http://www.silexlabrg/groups/silex/hierarchy/

Technical documentation: http://silex-riarg/api-v1

==Specificity===

system template themes

system components

deep linking: Addressing of pages

html automatic search engines

Flash API

Run on CD-ROM by copy/paste

SILEX communicates with other open source applications