Hive Toolkit is a content management system (CMS) developed to maintain a hived network to quickly deploy, manage and maintain a network, or networks of sites and applications. In addition to containing basic features common to most CMSs including the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts within a role-based permission / privilege system, create and manage menus, customize page layout, perform logging, and administer the system, Hive toolkit additionally presents extensible network architecture, and a modular framework to allow a wide range of extensibility and rapid development capabilities.
The frameworks unique model-view-control architecture, is loaded with features and capabilities designed to make every step of the development and design process portable and extensible. Hive core elements are specifically designed to handle the complex processes that are required from an intuitive, stable and expandable content management system. Hive tool-kit's modified architectural pattern is design to rapidly interchange features and settings. Using a simple configuration and style schema, objects within the framework not only offer a set of configuration parameters, but also a fully controllable set of style parameters.
Basically, Hive Toolkit allows a company to customize, deploy and manage any number of websites, from the simplest to the most advanced, quickly and seamlessly. Content within the websites can then be expanded and managed by non-technical staff.
Hive Toolkit is commercialized by VWI Technologies, Inc. of Austin, Texas.
Network hives are rapidly deploy-able control installations that allow developers and designers to easily control, manage and deploy features and objects to multiple sites with a click of a button.
Easy Integration Schema, allow any web based api to be integrated quickly, while the deploy-ability of the entire framework allowing the integrations to be distributed network-wide instantly.
Extensible object schema; using a simple setting, style, process interface allows the network to quickly deploy a massive amount of features and new objects throughout the entire network or within a smaller network hive.
Simple url aliased apis; application management and interface is handled through a uri controller allowing the system to easily assign human readable url's to each interaction.
Simple drag and drop interfaces are layered throughout the system, making what previously was complex tasks that took extensive amounts of time, simple and a few clicks away.
Intuitive Graphics processing; this feature gives the user 100% control handling image assets throughout the system, such as resizing, and scaling operations.
Fully featured css editor, creates, modifies and updates object style using 100% css in GUI setting. The editor also features a favorites option to quickly access previously used settings.
Modular static view interface, is an additional layer for the content management system allowing simple url aliasing and full customization of system interface pages. This modular perspective allows content editors and designers to manage the look and feel of applications that previously was either unavailable to the public, or required incredible amounts of cross templating among multiple web-applications.
Meta control interfaces enable any node to be instantly SEO friendly and compatible to search engines.
Global content management gives the user the ability to distribute global content within the site conceiving a new perspective on changes that require multiple page edits.
XHTML compliant
Jquery Aware