Rapid Website Creation And Management

The maker is a Content Management System (CMS) for websites. the maker is running on your local computer and after you made your changes you are publishing via FTP. All that is required is some webspace with FTP access.

The maker is open source and absolutely free !

If you would like to support this project, consider becoming a Beta Tester and send in some bug reports.

In Detail

The Maker works on your local machine. The built in editor has a auto-complete feature for the entire HTML vocabulary, making page creation a cinch. You can upload edited files to your server via the integrated FTP tools. Meaning you only have one application to create, edit and mangage your websites.

You will find a tutorial here.

The intuitive user interface is designed to simplify your work so you can stay focused on your creativity. With convenient keyboard short cuts for the most frequent tasks and other elements to further enhance your productivity.

The Maker facilitates importing, manipulation and synchronizing of your graphics files seamlessly and provides a contextual menu in the editor when inserting images into your html code.

The Maker provides a logical workflow for websitesite creation and breaks down webpages into their components for easier editing. giving you the facility to edit repeating sections like the header, footer and menus just one time irespective of the number of pages on your site. Another feature, called maker dynamics, enables you to insert repeating blocks of html with a single line.

All pages can be previewed in your browser of choice, enabling you to test your pages across different browsers before committing to the web.

The file tree provided in the interface gives you access to all of the files within each site. Files that have been changed are tagged for upload and can be synchronized with your webspace at any time. You can work on your project even without internet access. You can upload your changes at your convineince.

The maker by design creates fully web standard compliant webpages, but plays very nicely with database driven dynamic sites the use Django, Rails, Turbogears etc.

Supplied templates and the ability to save your own templates means that you can build elegant muiltpage sites in a matter of minutes.

The built in help system links to 'best in class' internet tutorial and reference data for HTML and CSS, meaning that you are only a 'click' away from that missing piece of knowledge required to finish your page.

Requirements

There are no depecdencies if you want to run a binary version of the maker.

To run the maker from the sourcecode, via your Python interpreter, you will need Python (2.4 or 2.5), wxPython.
To use the maker you also need a solid knowledge about (X)HTML and CSS.