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A Brief Overview

User Benefits

• The option of plain text (with simple markup) or WYSIWYG editing enables site owners to make changes on their own, instead of calling their service provider for simple HTML edits.
• Full Web Page Versioning: All deleted and changed pages are stored in the database and can be restored with a simple mouse click.
• Edits can be made from any browser, anywhere in the world.
• Automated navigation (section menus, site maps, breadcrumbs, the fastest cross browser compatible drop menus available) means that sites can be completely maintained by their owners, even when pages are added or removed.
• User based Authentication and Workflow with Writers, Editors, Viewers, and Administrators: Sitellite empowers organizations to give tailored access to different parts of the website to those who need it, making web page editing safe and traceable.
• Sitellite's template driven site layouts ensure that single changes have global effects, maintaining consistency across an entire site. Per section and per page template overiding even allows for the creation of mini sites within a single domain.

Developer Benefits

• A theme based administrative GUI allows our partners to easily re-brand the administrative interface and create custom content based web applications.
• Object Oriented application framework with over 100 packages, makes most programming tasks a cinch. Based on a Java like class loading system that abstracts file and directory locations.
• Built in documentation system with hundreds of pages of tutorials with examples. Also documents your custom packages using a number of formats.
• Built in testing framework ensures a high level of reliability in your custom application logic. Uses simple XML documents to store previous tests and can also track and report test results over time.
• Module based administrative GUI can quickly be extended to add custom editing components. Additional modules can be installed from simian.ca and sitellite.org.
• Box metaphor is used to separate front end code from display and content elements. This promotes Model View Controller design methods, and helps to maintain clean and organized code.
• Form creation, validation, and processing using a widget based system with more than 30 custom widgets.
• Run modes can be used to alter every aspect of the behaviour of the Sitellite Content Manager.
• Sitellite's license allows developers to look at and use our source code to build their applications directly interfaced into our system.

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