Presentation
Open Site Builder Tools is a project that provides you with free software intended to facilitate your life as a professional web site developer. Currently available tools include:
open site builder
site pages assembler. Merges content pages into a predefined template and produces target site by only replacing changed documents. Now includes sitemap generatorosb log analyzer
scans osb logs and displays list of modified files day by day, version by version. Each day activity is divided by project version and each version displays modified files sorted in descending order by the number of times the file was modified. So you can simply review development activity in each project version and know which files were most activeosb ftp uploader
uploads site pages from your development machine to the production server. Only the newer documents are uploaded. It also shows you the files on your target server that are missing in your development environment. This facilitates you the task of tracking moved / deleted files
OSB Tools news
20/05/07 Minor site refactoring by dividing longer documents into more pages to facilitate onscreen reading and providing better titles to the pages.
01/04/07 Today the version 3.6 of Open Site Builder is released which includes a fully functional sitemap generator. It lets you produce an XML file which describes your web site pages in Sitemap format. The file contains the address of each page along with its modification date, change frequency and priority relative to other site pages. This sitemap must be uploaded with your files and submitted to a search engine to optimize the crawling process. Google and Yahoo do support that protocol.
14/03/07 Voilà. For those of you who cannot wait for a sitemap feature added to Open Site Builder here is an online prototype that will scan the site and generate a sitemap file. Links scanned are restricted to the provider directory and its subdirs. Up to 100 links. Here is the form:
Note: Most automatically generated pages do not provide the date of last modification in its headers and so the sitemap entry will only contain the url of the page. However most static pages do provide the Last-Modified header which is used for a <lastmod> element. In short static documents are better for creating a sitemap.
05/03/07 This is it. After two years of visible inactivity the new release of Open Site Builder has finally seen the light. New version 3.5 is available as of now at SourceForge. You are welcome to upgrade and try the new dynamic html interface. As always your comments are highly awaited at the forums or mailing lists.
02/03/07 The software was completely restructured. The launcher section now contains an interface to provide parameters and choose a tool to run, parameter reader and directory scanning functions. All the tools are implemented as plug-in modules. Available plug-ins are: the builder, log analyzer and ftp uploader. After the testing is complete the version 3.5 of Open Site Builder Tools will be posted to SourceForge.
23/02/07 Since log analyzer and ftp uploader are now separate utilities the plans are to rework both to create an integrated set of tools. The parameter reader (PR) and directory scanning (DS) functions are subject to externalization. Parameters for all the tools will be stored in config.xml. External functions will be used by osb itself (PR, DS), log analyzer (PR), ftp uploader (PR, DS) and later by sitemap generator (PR, DS).
13/02/07 OSB project renamed to Open Site Builder Tools, its resources are moved to the new domain and are now located at osbtools.googlepages.com. The basic information is still present on the SourceForge site. New address is submitted to Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Sitemaps are submitted to Google and Yahoo! since MSN does not (yet) accept one.