WysGui 2.2.2

Major Features:

1. Lean, Fast, and Just Plain Easy-to-use!
   • When Ease & Simplicity Matter - WysGui is a great example of this. There are ways to tell a server to save a simplified snapshot of a page for future access. If that was the only thing wysgui did, it would run almost as fast as the same thing without server-side code. However it's not the only thing. It also gets properly cached by the visitors browser, making it even faster! Studies show that web-sites which load faster are more likely to keep their users involved.
   • WysGui is very easy to use. An eleven year old can get the hang of most things quite quickly.
     
2. Content Management - A Blog? An Information Source? A Little Bit of Both?
   • With WysGui, there's a WYSIWYG editor that will let you do just about any of those things- including uploading of images, flash, and other allowed file-types. No need for any coding or HTML knowledge there. Every strong CMS has this functionality as well- That's not what makes WysGui special.
   • With WysGui, you have full control of the order in which your content displays. That allows you to order the articles any which way, with little effort and no coding knowledge.
     
   • When it gets to the point where a piece of content can't handle it all, for example if Server-Side code or head tag data, is needed, then modules come in.
3. Developer-Friendliness - Create Modules directly in WysGui
   • No coding knowledge is needed to move around and organize modules. Just like content, it's mostly common sense.
   • For the developers, WysGui makes it very easy to create a web-site quickly. It's been said, "If you've ever used a CMS and wished you could do more, WysGui is for you." That's because the versatility never ends with WysGui. It's a web-based system that can be accessed and managed through any computer with internet access. You don't need to be on a computer with Notepad++, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Word, and FTP software. You can manage your site's core functions and abilities directly through the Admin Panel. The code editor is color coded, and provides a syntax highlight for many different coding languages.
   • The lack of dependencies of outside software for developers makes WysGui a very powerful tool, with allot of potential.
     
   • • Settings, which are declared before everything.
     • Action, which is declared after settings, but before any mark-up.
     • Head Data, which includes any JavaScript, CSS, or anything in the HEAD tags.
     • Form/Content, which is the main display for the module. That's actually what gets sorted with the content.
   • It may be hard to comprehend at first, but as far as web-sites go, with just these four sections, almost anything can be done.
4. Theme Control - A Web Designers Paradise
   • Themes are fully customizable with WysGui. They consist of templates and style-sheets. Each one can be edited directly in the admin panel. A theme can have multiple styles.
     
   • An example of using this setup would be a theme with a set of different colors in the style-sheet. Or maybe a theme with different parent organization on the template. If you have 2 templates, and 5 different style-sheets, that equals 10 options for skins.
   • Some HTML and CSS knowledge is required to manage themes in WysGui, though is not required to attach a theme to a page.
5. File Management
   
   • WysGui has a strong back-end. The Brain of the operation, and everything else is accessible through the site tree. The Site tree is basically an icon powered site-map. It's designed in a file/folder type structure. It shows you first all of your main data-powered pages, and in the second section is shows all of the files & folders starting at your site root.
     
   • You can navigate through folders, files, and images. When a file is selected, a text editor pops up allowing you to edit your files. Now, for videos and images it's kind of weird seeing all those weird characters, and nobody can go through and edit that. The purpose of that functionality is to allow admins to go through and have full control of data files. The engines running the site are also accessible, and virtually anything can be edited this way, but as mentioned before, images and video and such formats need to be edited with the proper tools on a local computer.
     
6. The Conclusion - All-and-all, it's a pretty strong system.
   • Though there are other Content Management Systems that cover a vast variety of other tools, communities, and structure, WysGui should stick out to be a good competitor. Though it's smaller, has allot less features, and doesn't have a wide variety of people developing software for it, it does have allot to offer, and if given the chance of having a community, could explode into a widely used system.
     

Enhancements: 4-13-09

• Updated security patch opened by the demo installation. Now it uses less bandwidth!
• WysGui Wiki created