Symphony 1.5 for FREE !

Symphony is a web publishing system built with developers in mind. It is a web standards focused system that delivers websites through XML and XSLT.

Here is a website where you can find more info: Symphony.

Live demo is here: link to live demo.

Also take a look at Dru review of Symphony 1.5 Beta.

Main features from official website:

The Engine

* Symphony is modular, which makes it a cinch to move your files between different websites, collaborate on a single project and share themes with the Symphony community.
* Of course, if there is something Symphony can’t do, there’s no problem. Campfire services, Symphony’s extension modules, can add extra functionality where it’s missing.

The User Interface

* By making every aspect of the publishing environment customisable, Symphony gives you complete control over how you and your authors publish. Every field is customisable and reorderable, and you can even apply validation rules which make sure they are correctly formatted.
* You can manage everything from within the admin interface, but Symphony is also designed to work with FTP, so if you’d rather edit files directly on the server or with your favourite text editor, you can. All your changes will be reflected in Symphony and on your website immediately.
* Symphony’s XML-RPC Campfire services allows desktop applications like MarsEdit to publish entries to your website remotely.

The Development Environment

* Maintenance mode is very useful for testing and debugging a live site. Switch on maintenance mode and visitors will be directed to your maintenance page, while you can still see and browse your website as normal. A set of handy debugging features are also enabled during maintenance.
* URL schemas give you a clean and efficient way to create dynamic pages.
* Did we mention that XSLT is a very cool templating language?

So go and check Symphony fast, i can also say that i wait for this system to be finally free (see also Symphony admin panel, it is so cute).

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