Sketch 3

1. Sketch version 3 has a website with documentation


2. FULL mobile support
   • Sketch will convert pages to work with iphone,ipad and Android based devices.


3. Sketch can now run with NO database present - perfect for small budgets or that "small" site.

Sketch comes With:

• Shopping Cart
  
  
  
  • DPS
  • Online Banking
  • Paypal
  
  
  
  
• Gallery
  • Each gallery supports light box features


• Blogs
  • Sketch support multiple blogs/forum pages for members and for the public


• Members


• News pages


• Animated Banners


• Casestudies


• XML feeds


• Twitter


• Multi-page create


• Multi-site


• Caching
  
  
  • Caching will give the correct headers to have the user cache it
  
  
  • Caching will create a flat file on the server so the server does not have to re-process it
  
  
  • Entire Pages can be cached on the server - improving performance.
  
  
  
  


• Page Tags


• Simple Install


• Secure
  • Encrypts all passwords / cookies using a random md5 encryption key.
  
  
  • Forms use tokens to get authorization
  
  
  • age content goes though an approval process
  
  
  • Forces removal of install files
  
  
  • Supports USER_AUTH to make a site private until launch
  
  
  
  


• Bench-marked
  
  
  
  • Simply add ?benchmark to the URL to get real feed back in the console (firebug/crome/safari web tools)
  
  
  
  


• Multi-Platform
  
  
  
  • IIS / Linux platforms.
  • Apache on windows,Mac or Linux environments
  
  
  
  


• Extendable
  
  • Sketch uses Models / View / Controllers - but in a flexible way
  
  
  • Don't want to use the MVC - then don't - drop a page in to the views folder and let it run - sketch will take care of the rest.
  
  
  • Each Page,plugin,output and form can be modified - the saving is managed behind the scenes.
  
  
  
  


• Helpful
  
  • Sketch has a helpers folder - In there is are Validation/ Email / Paypal / DPS / minification and more...
  
  
  • Sketch presents a full error when things go wrong
  
  
  • Errors can be turned off when Development mode is finished
  
  
  
  


• Tiny
  • All pages are stripped of comments and whitespace


• Best Practice
  • Latest Standards are used in headers, Ajax requests not cached


• Mootools
  • Get the best of mootools by just using the styles in forms


• SEO
  • Analytics and Standards are used to create meta tags


• RSS
  • Blogs and News Get an rss feed at newsfeed and blogfeed


• Moveable
  • Sketch knows when it is in a subfolder - these are never written to file paths - so when moving the site form one folder to another - Sketch adjusts the links for you.