The Ixxus Web Framework is designed to provide you with all the features you expect; CMS, powerful search and community tools (blogs, user comments, wikis) while leveraging your valuable assets such as content and branding.

This product is buildt upon a robust MVC (model view controller – a modern tiered technical architecture) style architecture that is easily maintainable and scalable. In additional to the core architecture there are many components that can be added to your website out of the box, such as polls, adverts, user comments. New components can be easily built and added as required to give you a modern, rich, fully customizable and unique user experience that stands you apart from the crowd.

In today’s market it is important to be able to rapidly build robust, secure websites that have a high level of usability and accessibility and design while reducing costs.

Highlights

• Maintainable and scalable framework
• Can take richly formatted content from any CMS system that provides XML
• Content is rendered as highly semantic XHTML mark-up by the View (with a high emphasis on accessibility)
• Auto sitemap generation to help with SEO (sitemaps.org)
• User comments system that can either publish immediately on the website or feed back into a CMS for review/moderation
• Auto generated RSS/Atom feeds
• Complete abstraction of mark-up from data to allow easy customization/re-skinning/ bespoke UI
• Easy integration with 3rd party search technologies to provide site wide or faceted searches (exact features dependent on the actual search technology used)
• ‘Pluggable’ components (such as comments, adverts, tag clouds, etc.) can be easily added to a website either from an existing library or by extending/creating new components
• Easy creation of web forms with robust validation (client and server side)
• Web site deigned to be restful using ‘Friendly’ URLs
• Reusable set of templates or controllers for common website functionality, such as search results, blog/news list, etc.
• Extensible OO JavaScript library that includes a number of reusable UI components such as date pickers, tabs, etc
• Web trend and analytic software of your choice can be easily integrated using the analytics module

For more detailed information, please see our blog entry on the Ixxus Web Framework.