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Bricks Site Builder v0.02, a DHTML Layout tool for Apache + mod_perl has been released.

The code has been significantly cleaned up, the user interface has been polished, and a proper perl installation script has been added.

0.01 is now available in the download area.

Bricks Site Builder, a DHTML layout tool running on Apache + mod_perl + Mason (www.masonhq.com), enables rapid web-site design. It provides a standardized component architecture so that a user can easily add functionality (photo albums, web logs, etc.) to their web site. But it is not a content management system, per se.

Components using this interface are called bricks, hence the name. A central part of Bricks Site Builder is an integrated layout tool that allows the site administrator to add, move, delete, and copy bricks in a assemblies (pages). This layout tool consists of a tool-bar at the top of a web-page. It's not drag and drop; it's select and submit.... read more