Current Features

Being in the early stages of this project, the features are evolving. Once 2buildX gets to the point of being truly useful, it will be made available for others to use and provide feedback.

These are the features that version 0.1 provides.

• Written using PHP to output XHTML
• Does not require a database
• Produces valid XHTML 1.0 Strict or Transitional
• Produces valid CSS level 2.1
• Multisite configuration of meta variables
• Site configuration of Site Name and Page Title
• Renders in Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer
• Builds validation referrer links with Icons in footer
• Puts 2buildX Icon and copyright in footer
• Produces section 508 compliant code
• Produces semantic site data... try it
• Status Complete 9/9/08

These are the features that version 0.2 provides.

• Added cases for domains to configure site level variables
• Site configuration of color scheme for different themes
• default, blue, lime, rose, gold, plum, aqua
• Switch to using heredoc syntax for header and footer
• Dropped startit() and endit() functions now use echo $header and echo $footer
• Add Navigation
  • Build navigation menu from configuration file array
  • Navigation is vertical block with sub menus
  • Parses directory name for submenu title
  • Configure via $navi array in site cases
• Added location aware function GetPageTitle() to use with navigation
• Added More div's for greater css access
• Status Complete 9/15/08

These are the features version 0.3 will provide.

• Beef up style sheet and complete current color schemes
• Add support for logos being included in site cases
• Select additional features from roadmap TBD

These are other features on the roadmap

• Serve variable css using PHP
• Build horizontal navigation
• Write another layout with CSS
• Write a mobile device and print CSS
• Produce valid XHTML 1.1
• Produce valid XHTML Basic 1.1
• Produce valid HTML 4.01 Strict or Transitional
• Pass the mobile validator
• Produce valid XML - note IE will not parse
• Serve content for print screen and mobile
• Integrate form handler functionality

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