Siteframe Beaumont (5.x) features

Siteframe Beaumont is the 5.0 release of Siteframe. It is a complete rewrite of the underlying Siteframe codebase, and includes a number of innovative features. Here are some of the more notable ones:

Simplified registration/invitation interface. If an existing user invites a new user to join a Siteframe website, registration is streamlined because the new user's e-mail address has already been validated.
Social Networking. Beaumont allows you to designate other users as "favorites" and keep up with what they're posting.
Security enhancements. Siteframe 5.0 includes features to prevent automated scripts from registering and uploading spam. Like in previous versions of Siteframe, only registered members can post content and comments.
Smarty template engine. Smarty is perhaps the most common templating engine in the PHP community, so many webmasters and developers will already be familiar with it. The proprietary (and inefficient) templating language from Siteframe 3.x has been totally replaced with Smarty.
User-centered, community-oriented user interface. Each user can create folders, which are effectively mini-sites or blogs within the context of the larger site. In each folder, the most recent items from that folder are displayed, and older items are accessible through navigation. On the main page, all the most recent pages from the entire site are available. Also, users can choose a custom template set ("theme") for their pages and folders, even though the content is shared with the rest of the site.
Automated image handling. Like all prior versions of Siteframe, Beaumont will automatically create thumbnails of images. However, instead of producing a fixed set of thumbnail sizes, Beaumont can dynamically create thumbnails in any size required by the webmaster, which gives a lot of flexibility to page design.
Simplified content model. Instead of a multitude of document types as in Siteframe 3, Beaumont lets the users focus on two essential objects: folders and pages. Once the user has created a folder, then a Page is really the only new object that is manipulated by the user. Uploaded files and images, instead of being treated as a separate document type as in Siteframe 3, are merely attachments to a page.
Tags. Keyword tagging lets users group similar items together; any user can tag a page with one or more keywords.
RSS support. You can sydicate content from other sites via RSS; the content is searchable and is available through your primary site. In addition, Siteframe 5.0 lets you create RSS feeds per site, per folder, for tags, and for search results, allowing maximum flexibility in sharing your content.
Ad Hoc Pages allow the site administrator to create "meta-content" that is not included in the regular user-contributed content. This can be used, for example, for help pages or legal statements that are commonly found on many websites.
Automatic Database Updates. This is a way cool feature; if there's a new version of Siteframe, you can use the Administrator's conrol panel to automatically upgrade your database with any changes in the new version.
Other administrator functions. In addition to the database, the new Administrator's control panel lets the site administrator(s) view reports, browse and edit files, and perform routine maintenance tasks easily.

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Siteframe Beaumont (5.x) features