What is Spidertools ?

Spidertools is a tool for managing websites. It can be used as a Content Management System, a Publishing Tool or as weblog (blog) software.

While keeping the user interface and design simple, Spidertools offers a complete set of tools for managing a site including

• Access controlled, hierarchical Sections for pages
• Access controlled, hierarchical Categories for posts
• Modules for handling media, pages, sections, categories, posts, comments and user profiles
• An extensive settings module which offers complete control over content and security
• Automatic creation of xml sitemaps that can be sent to Google for indexing as well as being used on the site.

Design Goals

The main requirement for this project is simplicity. Many similar tools or CMS's try to squeeze in too many features, cluttering the software and making it difficult to overview. Spidertools stays simple and understandable by including only the most useful modules and utilizing a intuitive interface.

Security and compliance with web standards are also high priority goals for Spidertools. A competent sentry is employed to control access within sites and works together with other parts of the system to avert Spam, SQL-injection, XSS and other security-threats. All pages generated by Spidertools validates as XHTML as defined by the W3C.

System Requirements

• PHP 5
• MySQL Database
• For search-engine friendly URL's, you need an Apache Webserver with mod_rewrite and .htaccess files enabled.

Where can I download Spidertools ?

Spidertools is not yet available for download. Follow the development at bergthomas.com