Silex website builder

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Stable release 2.5 / 2015 Type Website builder Website Silex official website		Operating system Cross-platform License GPL

Developer(s) Alexandre Hoyau, Pierre Teissière, Pol Goasdoué, founders

Silex is a free website builder, that can be used directly in your browser. The skills needed to edit a website depend on what needs to be done : use the drag and drop / WYSIWYG interface to intuitively edit a website, or the integrated CSS and Javascript editors to add styles and interactivity to the elements.

Silex is a free and open source alternative to proprietary website builders like Wix.com, Weebly, Jimdo or Squarespace.

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. 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

In 2008, Silex was among the 100 first Open Source projects on SourceForge. Silex v1 is released.

In 2009, Silex was project of the month on SourceForge. The program was presented Silex at several French conference: Futur en Seine, Les Trophées du Libre, Pas sage en Seine, Wikiplaza

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. The organization became the official maintainer of AMFPHP, a mature communautary project.

In 2012, Silex has reached the 100.000 downloads. And the team has made a dedicated version for HTML, the html5 editor, which was downloaded 1000 times on the first month.

In 2013, the team, led by Alex Hoyau started from scratch and build Silex V2 with Javascript, nodejs 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.

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 app

free templates and plugins

References

Silex website builder Wikipedia

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