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Gekko Web Builder - Baby Gekko

BabyGekko strives to deliver high quality websites and other web content fast and easy for all end users. It is a lightweight, extensible content management system platform for publishing websites, intranets, or blogs. Baby Gekko, which is written in PHP/MySQL, has been in development since 2006 and recently released in December 2011. Baby Gekko CMS makes it easier for content managers with any level of technical skills to operate the site. With Baby Gekko, you can put contents of simple text, photos, multimedia documents, embed Youtube files, etc with ease.

Download the latest version:

Download Nowv1.2.0 (Apache on BSD/OS X/Linux/Solaris/Windows 2003/2008).
or
Download from Microsoft Microsoft Web Platform Installer (IIS7.x only on Windows 7/2008/2008R2).
Note: IIS 6 on Windows 2003 is not supported.

Please read the License before using it.

To install it onto your web server, please point your web browser to http://yourservername.com//install/.

Baby Gekko CMS has been tested and works with CPanel, Plesk, and EasyPHP (Windows). It should work with any Linux or Windows based server running PHP > 5.2 and MySQL.

Try the demo at http://gekkocms.babygekko.com. You can also view the backend at http://gekkocms.babygekko.com/admin (no password required, but write access and certain functionalities have been disabled)

Baby Gecko Screenshot

 

features

ApplicationsExtensible API for 3rd-party Application Development. You can choose from pre-defined data structures and extend the existing classes to create your own business directories, e-commerce, student database, etc.
WYSIWYGWYSIWYG Editing. User-friendly content editing. Insert images easily through upload
Drag n DropDrag and Drop. Drag and drop is standardized through all classess in the administration.
RSSRSS support for contents/blog.
User FriendlyUser Friendly URL Instead of using ? and = in the URL, URL can be automated to something like http://www.mywebsite.com/site/html/about_me.html
UTF-8UTF-8 unicode character support.
CaptchaCaptcha support to reduce spamming attempt.
TemplateSimple website template. No need to learn special PHP programming to create the template. Just standard HTML with less than 6 predefined functions. If you already have an existing Joomla 1.x template, you can reuse it with minimal modifications. You can also customize your site template for phones (Nokia, Blackberry, etc).
WindowEasy to use, intuitive user interface. Your user will be able to navigate the content easily.
Light FootprintLight memory footprint. Baby Gekko CMS is fast, efficient, and uses light memory footprint for its operation. It does not hog the server resources.
CachingCaching support to speed up the website even more.
Search Engine SubmissionBing/Google/Yahoo site map for website submission (v1.0.5)
Developer FriendlyCommercial and open source developer friendly. Baby Gekko CMS is a free software, and we allow developers who want to protect their code to use ionCube or Zend Guard. We do not force you a certain license (e.g: GPL)
UsersUser permission. You can customize the permission of articles.
ConversionEasy conversion from other CMS with import script (v1.3.0 - todo). This site is an example of how easy it is to convert from Joomla/Mambo within less than 4 hours (exporting existing database, modifying the template, etc).

 

screenshots

Click the thumbnails to see Baby Gekko CMS in action

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roadmap

v1.2.0

  • More built-in themes/templates
  • SSL login (done)
  • Backtrack URL in XMLRPC
  • OAUTH v2 authentication (ALPHA stage)
  • WebDAV capability (extension)
  • E-Commerce functionality (extension)
  • Menu permissions
  • Logging/Audit
  • More documentation

Completed:

  • Site map XML for Google/Bing submission
  • LDAP Integration
  • Caching
  • Stable, frozen API
  • Finalized security check
  • Install script
  • Finalized user signups
  • Finalized data structure