Jaws Framework CMS Script : Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. It aims to be User Friendly giving ease of use and lots of ways to customize web sites, but at the same time is Developer Friendly, it offers a simple and powerful framework to hack your own modules.
Before diving into a concrete Jaws component you may find useful to see the complete picture:
gadgets: a gadget is a utility that you can put on a webpage. Some available gadgets are blog, menulist, friends list… The admin can use the control panel to make each gadget (un)available, to set the gadget properties and to decide where it will be displayed.
actions: each gadget allows to perform several actions (i.e: the blog gadget allows to send new entries, to edit old ones, to comment an entry…). All actions are implemented on a model.
templates: a template is the (X)HTML representation of a gadget (i.e: the blog gadget includes a header tag for the title, paragraph tags for the content, and so on). While performing some actions, some widgets can be added/edited/deleted to the template.
plugins: a plugin is code that mainly modifies the text of your site, and its behaviours can be combined with those of gadgets.
webservices: the primary goal of a web service is to communicate two (or more) web entities, these can be two sites, a web application, a desktop application with web access and so on.
themes: a theme controls how data will be displayed to the user: colors, fonts, borders and so on. Jaws includes some cool themes, you can use them freely or use them as base for new ones.
Native Language: English
Translated To: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
License: GNU Library or “Lesser” General Public License (LGPL)
