Products

Simpleton

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.

Wordpress

Wordpress is a web publishing and content management system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. Wordpress is used to manage frequently-updated web content, especially weblogs. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and in its basic form is available free of charge.

• Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.

• Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static “about” page that you manage through Wordpress. For an idea of how powerful this is, our entire website is run on Wordpress alone.

• Incorporates a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and if you don’t like any of them, we can design a brand new one for you.

• Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.

• Includes very robust spam protection tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog. There is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.

• Contains a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.

• You can assign passwords to individual pages or posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.

• You can have categories of authors that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.

• A highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.

• Uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.

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

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:

• Works on plain text files, no database needed
• Simple syntax and easy editing with quickbuttons and accesskeys
• Section editing allows you to edit small parts of a page
• Automatic generation of content tables
• Unlimited page revisions
• Coloured side by side diff support
• Support for read only pages
• Syndication of recent changes as RSS Feed
• Namespaces
• Interwiki links
• Uploading and embedding images
• Image caching and resizing
• Easy navigation through breadcrumbs
• Customizing with templates and plugins
• Multilanguage Support
• Spam blacklist
• Custom text replacements
• Page caching
• Locking to avoid edit conflicts
• Full UTF-8 support

A demo of Dokuwiki is available here.

Hastymail

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:

• International domain name (IDN) support for outgoing messages
• The ability to see all unread message summaries in configured folders on one page.
• Per user namespace support so users can access folders in alternative namespaces.
• A really stripped down interface for small screen devices like phones and palms.
• Cache control so sites can balance PHP session size with IMAP activity.
• Tons of handy time saving abilities such as keep as new, skip trash on delete, skip saving in sent on send, delete/move while jumping to next or previous, find response in sent folder, view message thread, edit as new, send fake message bounce, send pasted message body unaltered (for inline patches), and lots more.
• Built in PHP templates that allow easy and massive interface customization.
• Actual HTML validation (4.01 traditional) without warnings or errors.
• All character sets converted to HTML UTF-8 entities for display allowing mixed character set display within HTML validation guidelines.

There is no demo of Hastymail available but you can see some screenshots here.