Silex website builder

Silex is a free website builder, that can be used directly in a browser. The application includes a drag and drop interface to edit a website, and CSS and Javascript editors to add styles and interactivity to the elements.[1][2]

Silex
Developer(s)Alexandre Hoyau, Pierre Teissière, Pol Goasdoué, founders
Stable release
2.5 / 2015
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWebsite builder
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.silex.me

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, 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.[16][17]

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

Source:[18]

References
  1. "Silex v2.0 - Part 1, the vision". Silex Labs (in French). 3 August 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  2. "Silex v2.0 - Part 2, what is it exactly?". Silex Labs (in French). 12 April 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  3. "Silex, the June Sourceforge POTM". Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  4. "Silex, live web creation - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  5. "Stat-is-stuck - Silex Labs". Silex Labs (in French). 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  6. "SourceForge Community Blog | Project of the Month, June 2009". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  7. "Silex on the scene - Silex Labs". Silex Labs (in French). 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  8. "Soissons pour les nuls *** Soissons for Dummies". Silex Labs (in French). 5 June 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  9. "Pas sage en Seine : Maintenant ! *** Workshop NOW !". Silex Labs (in French). 4 June 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  10. "Video Wikiplaza - Silex Labs". Silex Labs (in French). 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  11. "About". Silex Labs (in French). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  12. "Flash remoting for PHP: A responsive Client-Server Architecture for the Web". amfphp.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  13. "New record for Silex !". Silex Labs (in French). 7 August 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  14. "杠杆交易平台可信吗|杠杆交易原理|股票100倍杠杆t加0平台". www.html5-editor.org. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  15. "Silex launches a crowdfunding campaign. - Templamatic". www.templamatic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  16. "Silex free website builder". Ulule. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  17. "Build your own website". Monday, April 27, 2020
  18. http://www.thetechlabs.com/latest/web-roundups-7-free-flash-cms/%5B%5D
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