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Silex website builder
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Silex is a free WYSIWYG website builder, that can be used directly in a browser or run offline as a it also provides cross-platform application version. The application includes a drag and drop interface to edit a website, and HTML, CSS and JavaScript editors to add styles and interactivity to the elements.[1][2]
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History
- Founded in 2003 by Alex Hoyau, Pol Goasdoué and Pierre Teissière. The project is oriented towards video and cross media.
- In 2005, the version v0-6 is presented at the WWDC2005 in Cupertino California.[3] Apple is interested in Flash capacity to compete with their QuickTime plug-in. Macromedia has just been acquired by Adobe, Apple's main partner.
- In 2006, the program was presented in several conferences at La Villette and won a challenge organized by Dauphine high school with INRIA - French National institute for research in computer science and control. The program at this time was mainly used for freelancers small projects.
- In 2007, Silex source code officially released as open source[4]
- In 2008, Silex was among the 100 first Open Source projects on SourceForge. Silex v1 is released.[5]
- In 2009, Silex was project of the month on SourceForge.[6] The program was presented Silex at several French conference: Futur en Seine,[7] Les Trophées du Libre,[8] Pas sage en Seine,[9] Wikiplaza [10]
- In 2010, the team members formalized their cooperation by creating a non profit organization for promotion, deployment support, and development of open source software projects related to Silex and Open Source Flash.[11] The organization became the official maintainer of AMFPHP, a mature communautary project.[12]
- In 2012, Silex has reached the 100.000 downloads.[13] And the team has made a dedicated version for HTML, the html5 editor,[14] which was downloaded 1000 times on the first month.
- In 2013, the team, led by Alex Hoyau [15] started from scratch and build Silex V2 with Javascript, Node.js and more modern technologies than the previous version.
- In 2016, Silex Labs foundation has set up a crowd funding campaign to give Silex international concern by creating a multilingual documentation and tutorials, and to create free templates to facilitate the creation of a website, and to develop a "responsive editor" to make it possible to optimize the mobile version of websites.[16][17]
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Features
- WYSIWYG environment to edit a publication with drag and drop
- HTML, CSS and Javascript code editors included
- Suitable for prototyping
- Web based (can be installed locally on a web server) or as a portable offline app
- Free templates and plugins
- File browser integration with GitHub, Dropbox, FTP, WebDAV, and SFTP
- Easy options for responsive element design
- Easy switch between desktop and mobile view
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