Information Takes Over

You may have noticed, way back at the begginning of this blog, there was a certain fascination with teacakes. Well this has never left me, and when it came time to name the code that I had been writing to power my website, Teacake {toasted} was a natural choice.

It wasn’t the first choice mind. There were other options, but for one reason or another, they were discounted.

So here is a list of Teacake’s features, some implemented, some in the pipeline.

• Basic page management
• User login with different permission levels, including paid content provision
• Templates written in xml that are interpreted by Teacake [planning]
• Customisable rss feed (i.e. not just a site dump to rss, but a structured snapshot of the site)
• Link resource management (i.e. links by category to sites of interest) [planning]
• xhtml:transitional and css compliant
• Accessible to all users / devices [needs further testing!]
• Logical structure to site construction, in that you can specify a number of different areas (i.e. Thomas, Albert, etc) and have pages dedicated to each area.
• All areas and pages can be assigned different permission levels.
• A template system which allows easy inclusion of Teacake area-specific things like headers/footers/menus etc, in other software, for example Wordpress that you are seeing now.
• And probably some other things that are either too boring to mention, or not thought of yet.

I am looking forward to releasing verion 1.0 soon, and as it will be under the GPL ( I think, I must do some reading…) I shall make it availiable from the site somewhere. I think I had better create an identity for Teacake {toasted} as well…