Overview

Product

Sitemasher is an integrated, SaaS-based platform for building, managing, and optimizing websites. By simplifying the website development and management lifecycles, Sitemasher helps customers maximize their web IT investment.

Sitemasher Studio is a rich environment for building sites that is powerful and flexible, yet simple to use, as everything is drag-and-drop. Managing both website design and content is seamless, because content management is built right into the platform. Sitemasher simplifies optimizing websites to improve visibility with built-in search engine optimization (SEO) and analytics.

The Sitemasher Dashboard provides an area where you can make simple changes to website content, collaborate with your team, assign roles and permissions, and also communicate with other developers. Sitemasher also provides a rich library of widgets and modules, allowing for quick and easy integration of applications like YouTube videos, Google Maps, interactive forms, and more – all in one simple and elegant solution that allows you to focus on managing your business.

Availability

Sitemasher is currently in “Public Pre-Release” mode. During this stage of development, we are implementing more features and engaging with early adopters for feedback on the product.  If you are interested in providing input as an early adopter, sign up for a free account. 

 
When Sitemasher is available for purchase (AFP) later in 2008, billing will occur via a monthly subscription when a site is published "live" on the internet.  The platform to build the site will always be free.  So, website developers, designers, and site owners can collaborate on the website until it is ready to publish!  At that point, the monthly subscription kicks in.  See pricing for more details.

Pricing

To meet the needs of the market, Sitemasher will offer several subscription levels ranging from small office/home office (SOHO) to enterprise.   Pricing will vary depending on the number of users per license and content-management functionality. For example, the SOHO version will be limited to two users with limited CMS functionality while the enterprise version will offer complete change-control management and unlimited users.   Pricing will be published on our website when Sitemasher is AFP later in 2008.  However, it will dramatically less than the current SaaS offerings of the content management systems available today.

Roadmap

In late June 2008, we released our first complete version of the Sitemasher platform, which allowed you to import mockups, templates, or HTML designs into Sitemasher, or to build a website from a blank canvas. We also enabled a new CSS editor and a navigation-menu toolset, along with the ability to create extensive forms and capture data with our built-in SQL database. Many other features emerged in this release, including search engine optimization (SEO), simple analytics, role-based security, and the ability to publish websites to a URL of your choice.

Our July release presented our first step towards providing extensibility within the Sitemasher product. This included the ability to use standard HTML and JavaScript code widgets to make it easy for developers to incorporate customized applications into Sitemasher. Our July release also contained further updates to our visual CSS editor, menu creation, and analytics.

By August 2008, we intend to overhaul our content management functionality to include the ability to make changes directly on the page in Dashboard. We will also make a second pass on submissions and approvals for site editors. As part of this launch, you will also see our first version of our Sitemasher Site Network, which will give users the ability to create parent and child sites, and to share components across them. Other additions will include our new visual style sheet editor, features to make it easier to use the list system as a blog, and many other enhancements.

In an effort to move towards our available for purchase (AFP) date, we are working very hard to move all Sitemasher features from demo-release mode to a fully usable and stable format by mid September 2008. And later in 2008 and 2009, we will further extend our product to include ASP.NET user controls and many other exciting features.

Needless to say, we are very focused on making sure that we listen to our community and provide product updates, user-interface adjustments, and new features with every new release of Sitemasher. Additionally, as Sitemasher is SaaS-based, we can do this on an ongoing basis and in a way that won’t inconvenience our users. For regular product updates, check out our Product News feed on the Sitemasher Dashboard.

By continuing to extend our offerings, Sitemasher provides a powerful way for you to build, manage, and optimize your websites.