Exponent CMS is a

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s modular

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and

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(CMS) written in the

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. Exponent CMS editing system allows

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content to be edited on the page as it appears – without back-end administration. The default

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includes a set of

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for managing a typical website. Additional modules are developed by a community of

developers and can be installed via a

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. Exponent CMS can be installed in a

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environment, or any platform that supports the

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web server and the

language (version 5.6.x+). Exponent CMS currently requires a

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(5+) or

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to store content and settings.

History

Exponent CMS was originally written and designed by James Hunt o
OIC Group, Inc
starting in 2001. Minor contributions were made by other OIC members, Fred Dirkse, Greg Otte and Adam Kessler, but most of the original work was done by Hunt. In 2005 Hunt left the OIC Group. Bug fixes were done on Exponent by Dirkse from 2005 - 2006. In 2006 Kessler came back to OIC Group and together he and Dirkse tried to revitalize the project. The release of version 96.6 followed shortly thereafter. During the summer of 2007 OIC hired Phillip Ball who was an active member of the Exponent CMS Open Source community. Version 0.97 was shipped shortly after. While trying to get the 0.97 release ready, Kessler started planning out a new

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(MVC) framework for Exponent and Ball was involved with the

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. The two different research path converged in the fall of 2007 as Kessler and Ball started on a new version. Kessler wrote the new Exponent Framework and Ball cleaned up and re-wrote the interface, trying to tightly integrate the YUI Javascript library. The result was Exponent 2 or Exponent MVC. Exponent 2 was released in the summer of 2011 following a series of pre-release

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Exponent 2.0 release

The 2.0 version of Exponent was released under the

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. On January 29, 2014, the Exponent CMS site switched to new

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software. In addition, a

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reporting system is available. The core functionality of Exponent CMS and Exponent Framework is still managed by OIC Group with a community of open source developers making module,

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and theme contributions. Current Exponent CMS software news is provided via the website

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Themes

The Exponent CMS was designed from the ground up with designers in mind. Themes for Exponent CMS are written using HTML/

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and

CSS Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone techno ...

. Hooks are placed in the theme file to integrate Exponent CMS into the theme. Any

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based design can be converted into an Exponent theme. In Exponent CMS content and presentation have been separated. To accomplish this the

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engine was used for creation of views. Views allow the same content to be displayed in different looks and customized to match the theme of a site.

Translations

Translations for Exponent CMS interface are available in 3 languages: US English (the default), Danish and German.

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