Why OpenEdit?

Before Ian and I worked with OpenEdit, we started as clients. We were running a web development shop and we went in search of open source technology that would support the web publishing needs of our clients.

Of all the options we considered, we found that OpenEdit offered the world's best open source file driven enterprise content management system. It was fast, light weight, easy to install, and our clients loved the many features, specifically the online editing tools.

Here is a list summarizing some of the reasons that attracted us to build a company around this excellent piece of software.

• open source - customizable and no licensing fees
• active User Group and Development Team
• XML based - plays well with others
• full featured
  • eCommerce
  • blog / forums / dynamic homepage news highlights
  • multi language capable
  • asset management
  • advanced Lucene site search
  • contact forms
  • events calendar
  • online issue tracker for project and workflow management
• dynamic menus
• flexible layouts with easy to customize CSS /HTML integrated with Velocity. OpenEdit layouts even supports programs such as Dreamweaver and other CSS/HTML editing tools.
• elegant online editing tools
• helpful documentation for users, administrators, and developers / programmers
• advanced account management
  • unlimited unique users
  • unlimited unique groups enabling a myriad of permission permutations
• File Driven
  • keep your files unlocked and accessible
  • no database required
  • portable - each plugin is self contained within a single folder making it easy to move from one server to the next
  • reusable - multiple unique copies of a plugin using a single fallback directory
  • ftp access to all files
• SEO friendly
  • easy online meta editing for the site, section, or page
  • SEO friendly URLs
  • each page is an HTML file yet you retain the benefits of dynamic layouts, menus, etc. (file driven)
•  written in Java