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Oxite - Lab - MIX Online
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Oxite
Oxite (alpha) is an open source, standards compliant, and extensible content management
sample that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. We know this because it
runs MIX Online.
Download Oxite
(alpha) from Codeplex but if you must, scroll to learn
more
What's in the bag?
Everything you could ever want When you
roll your own blog or web site, you are faced with a huge list of protocols and
features that you need to implement, but all you care about is building the best
web experience you can dream up. Oxite provides you with a strong foundation you
can build upon - pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with
optional moderation), gravatar support, RSS feeds at any page level, support for
MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy), web admin panel,
support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser's
search box, and more - so, you can spend time on designing a great experience.
Create more than just blog posts. Oxite
includes the ability to create and edit an arbitrary set of pages on your site.
Want an 'about' page? You got it. Need a special page about your dogs, with sub-pages
for each of those special animals? Yep, no worries . the ability to add pages as
a child of another page is all built in. The web-based editing and creation interface
lets you put whatever HTML you want onto your pages, and the built-in authentication
system means that only you will be able to edit them. And if that's not enough,
well, you have all the code, don't you?
We heart web standards. Web development
isn’t easy. Oxite shows that you can build a standards compliant website, starting
with design and markup and realizing that vision into a web application using ASP.NET
MVC. The current iteration is an alpha release and we'll continue to ship periodic
updates based on all the great feedback we're hearing. We’ve also made it open source
so that people can look at the code and even contribute changes along the way.
Lone blogger, or part of a pack? Oxite
includes support for multiple blogs on one site, as well as the ability to contain
the data for more than one site in the same database.
Learn from MIX Online. We know how frustrating
it can be to get going on building a great site on a powerful platform. We're providing
a default template to get you started, but fret not if that's not enough. If you're
anything like us, you learn best by sifting through code. So, we figured that we'd
package up MIX Online codebase for your perusal. If nothing, it should give you
a rockin' good start at building your own site.
Screenshots
Video
A Quick Overview of Oxite
In this video, Adam Kinney, one of the
early cofounders of Oxite, talks to Erik Porter
and Nathan Heskew about what
exactly Oxite has to offer. Erik and Nathan take you on a whirlwind tour of everything
in the Oxite bag. If reading is not your thing, this video is for you. (6m42s)
Other versions:
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Be sure to check out our lab for more cool stuff.
Related Articles
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ROI is
by Molly Holzschlag
Web Design from the Gut
by Nishant Kothary
Quick Links
You can
download the Oxite source as well as check out
example implementations of Oxite on CodePlex.
Got questions about the project?
Check out the discussion forums.
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