Wordpress is a simple web publishing and content management system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. Wordpress is adaptable enough to be be used for virtually any type of website you can imagine. The reasons why you should be using Wordpress to power your website include:
Easily manage your own website content without having to know any HTML, design or programming skills.
Search engines love websites built with Wordpress and they index them faster and more frequently than static websites.
Visitors to your website can leave feedback on individual entries via a built in commenting system.
Because it’s open source software, you are free to customise it any way you like.
Built-in tools to automatically protect your website from comment spam.
Incorporates a user registration system to allow multiple authors to maintain your website.
Our own website uses a customised version of Wordpress. Try a demo of some of the hundreds of visual themes available. The Wordpress admin interface is available here. Please use admin as the username and demo as the password.
Dokuwiki is a standards compliant, simple to use wiki documentation system. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files and no database is required.
The main Dokuwiki features include:
A demo of Dokuwiki is available here.
Simpleton is a PHP application which enables you to view Picasa2 image galleries on the web, using nothing more than the Picasa2 XML “web export” feature and an FTP client. Simpleton parses the generated XML and renders the image galleries on the fly.
If you already use Picasa and have a website then Simpleton may be for you.
Simpleton does not need a database and is easy to install, configure and use. It requires PHP V5 with the SimpleXML libraries and Apache V1.3+ with the mod_rewrite module.
The entire premise of Simpleton is to show albums on the web, once they have been “prepared” by Picasa. As such, there is no facility to leave comments and there is no facility for “private albums”. If you need those features, perhaps look elsewhere.
To get an idea of how Simpleton works, take a look at the demo or download it here.
Hastymail is a streamlined, secure, fast web based IMAP client written in PHP. Hastymail is designed to have low server requirements and follow internet standards for MIME, IMAP and SMTP communications. Hastymail is also designed to work with all the major and not so major web browsers available.
Hastymail does not use frames, javascript, or cookies and all output is 100% W3C compliant 4.01 transitional HTML. Here is a short list of some of what Hastymail has to offer that many other webmail clients do not:
There is no demo of Hastymail available but you can see some screenshots here.