Isotoma Limited

I am very, very, pleased to reveal in all it’s glory a site that we’ve been working on now for some considerable time: MindShare. It’s a huge site for a very large (and very lovely) customer.

The design is courtesy of Rob Dennis, and our own Francois Jordaan did the extremely spiffy Information Architecture. I hope you will agree that the results speak for themselves - I think it’s the best website I’ve contributed to in many years.

The technology is particularly interesting, using Twisted, lxml and Oracle’s dbxml to produce a new and quite radically different CMS technology. The architecture layer for delivering pages uses XPROC, XQuery and XSL to do as much of the heavy lifting as possible. There are a lot of exciting possibilities with these technologies, and we’ll be releasing some very interesting components based on some of them as soon as we can.

Oh, and it’s driving the sister MindShare Interaction site too - and we’ll be launching sites for MindShare in German, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian over the coming months, all running from the same content repository.

So huge props to the everyone who has worked on the site, both within and outside Isotoma ,and many thanks to the Twisted guys for their consistently excellent code, to Stefan Behnel for lxml and to Oracle for releasing dbxml under an Open Source license.

Watch this space for more interesting uses of the XML stack in the comings months.