Latemp 0.4.0 review

Latemp project (a play on "Template") is a content management system based on Website Meta Language, a powerful framework for generat

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Shlomi Fish

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Latemp project (a play on "Template") is a content management system based on Website Meta Language, a powerful framework for generating static HTML.

Latemp allows one to create attractive, themable sites, which are very usable, accessible and fully standards compliant. Latemp is open-source software, fully usable, modifiable and distributable under the terms of the MIT X11 license.

Here are some key features of "Latemp":
Generates Static HTML Files.
Allows sites to have a common look and feel.
Supports setting up navigation menus, breadcrumbs trails, navigation links ("Up", "Next" and "Previous"), site maps with sophisticated site flow.
Makes use of Web Meta Language and so has all of its power (including extending its functionality by using embedded Perl).
Themable. Three themes (perl-begin-1, better-scm, and sinorca-2.0) are supplied in the distribution. More can be written by the user. (and contributed).
Open Source. Distributed under the MIT X11 License, which allows for free distribution, use, modification and re-licensing.
Can generate valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.1.
Has pre-defined insertion points for including a breadcrumbs trail, a navigation menu, various HTML < head > elements, a logo, navigation links buttons, affiliation buttons, a license, a webmaster contact, a time stamp, and a foot image.
Supports generating plain pages (without any additional content or layout aside from the body).
Supported < head > elements: < title > tag, "author", "description" and "keywords" < meta > elements, Stylesheets (screen and print), favicon, Mozilla/Opera-style navigation links, and customizable user-defined text to be inserted there.
Supports a unified management of news items with navigation menu entries, a news box, an RSS Feed, and news page entries.

What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for preprocessing files using Template Toolkit (for CSS, etc.).
It adds an experimental CSS Zen Garden-compatible theme and an image-based navigation links module.