SILEX

Open Source Flash CMS, RIA with a WYSIWYG to produce Flash content

SILEX is an open source RIA which helps you produce Flash websites. It is a content management system with which you will quickly be able to build any Flash website with any type of media.

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Overview

SILEX is an open source RIA which lets you build Flash websites for Flash Player 7, 8 and 9.

SILEX is a new kind of CMS (Content Management System), a mix between editing software and wiki based software.

All multimedia file formats can be assembled in SILEX WYSIWYG editor for publishing website online, in a local computer and on CD-R.

SILEX users have chosen this tool for :

  • its legitimate integration in the CS3 package.
  • its automatic SEO system
  • its multilingual contexts management
  • its constant evolution
  • its short learning curve
  • its documentation and the designers and developers community which is bigger and bigger
  • its light weight
  • the SILEX components and themes provided with it
  • the Flash look and feel of the produced applications
Details of the functionalities

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Applications

The designers have not need any programming in order to produce these applications:

simple websites

touch screen applications

  • http://hoyau.info/demos/proximus
    • deployed in 500 shops in Belgium
    • daily updates
    • hundreds of telephones and budget plans
    • 10 different contexts depending on the shop location and stock

dynamic websites with a back office for the end-user 

big websites (more than 200 pages) 

  • http://education.france5.fr/judaisme/
    • search engine friendly
    • "send this article to a friend" functionnality
    • deeplinking (each page is accessible directly thanks to deep links)
    • more than 15 people working on it

RIA 

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alexandre hoyau
alexandre hoyau
freelance developer, AS2, AS3, Flash, Flex, FMS
avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, Suresnes, FR
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