“SF Interactive, Inc, a leading Interactive marketing services
firm, today announced it will release its TagTemplate website
building software to the worldwide open source community. This
software tool lets programmers build and maintain websites in a
modular fashion, separating ‘front-end’ text and design updates
from back-end scripting and database programming. Though SF
Interactive currently licenses custom-developed software for
services such as media tracking and optimization, TagTemplate is
being released for free in the tradition of web development as a
collaborative enterprise.”
“SF Interactive has been building websites for four years, and
some of our staff have been at it for more than twice as long,”
said James Waldrop, Chief Technical Officer at SF Interactive. “For
all we have gotten out of the many Perl, Apache, Linux, and GNU
tools out there, it is time for us to make our contribution. We
hope other web developers find TagTemplate useful and join us in
continuing to evolve it.”
“Principally developed by SF Interactive Lead Unix Engineer
Jacob Davies, the TagTemplate software allows website builders to
do two things: separate form from function, and retain the full
power and flexibility of the Perl programming language. Separating
form (the HTML code) from function (the Perl code) allows
programmers to concentrate on backend functionality while designers
concentrate on the look and feel. Enabling technologists and
marketers to do great work together has been a winning formula for
SF Interactive and its clients since 1997.”