Quotes from Interview with Brian W. Brown, phpWebsite Project Manager

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"Weren't you with phpNuke before?

phpWebSite began life as a phpNuke fork: We needed something that would allow our users get content up immediately - we could not ask our users to just hang tight for a year while we wrote code. phpNuke had much of the functionality we needed. Along the way, we cleaned up a lot of code in Nuke.


What made you branch off?

We branched for a variety of reasons. While phpNuke had a lot of the functionality we needed, it was also lacking in many respects. Important features, such as the ability to create a page and put it on the menu without editing HTML were not present. Outside of features, the output generated by Nuke did not meet W3C standards. In fact, at the time, there were not any products on the market (open source or propriety) that had clean HTML output.

Understand, we were trying to take an intelligent approach to building a sustainable web for Appalachian - it was very clear to us that XML would help ensure a long-lasting solution. I hold to the belief that standards are key in keeping the Web unified and available to everyone. When people are using work-arounds to support various browsers, something is clearly wrong.

So, from the beginning, we were looking at developing a tool that would comply to W3C standards. phpWebSite generates clean XHTML and therefore works well in any browser on any platform.

It is important to note that the current version of phpWebSite - 0.9.x - was written from the ground up and contains no old Nuke code."

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Please read the full interview at phpwebsitemanual.com


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