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What is Exponent?
An overview of Exponent including Features, Roadmap, License and a link to a test drive Demo.
Exponent Terminology
An explanation of Exponent User and System Terminology to help you understand how Exponent works.
Installing Exponent
A guide to Installing Exponent including System Requirements, Downloading, Uploading, Database, Install Wizard and Troubleshooting.
Installing Themes
A guide to adding Themes to change the look of your Exponent website.
Installing Modules
A guide to adding Modules to extend functionality of your Exponent website.
Configuring Exponent
A guide to Configuring your Exponent site after installation.
Migrating Exponent
A guide to Migrating an existing Exponent installation to a new server.
Upgrading Exponent
A guide to Upgrading existing Exponent installations.

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What is Exponent?

This page provides answers to the question What is Exponent?

1 Exponent Features
2 Exponent Roadmap
3 License
4 Exponent Demo
5 Getting Started Resources

Exponent Features

Exponent is a website content management system (or CMS) that allows site owners to easily create and manage dynamic websites without necessarily directly coding web pages, or managing site navigation.

Exponent is completely self-contained

Unlike other site management tools, no additional applications need to be downloaded by a user to permit them to use Exponent. Everything, from user management, to site configuration, to content editing — and content approval for large, multi-admin sites — is done within the system. Exponent does what other CMS systems do — it allows anyone to create website pages, content on pages, and manage where these pages are placed on a website — but it does all this in a completely new way.

Easy-to-use at any skill level

Exponent uses an intuitive and flexible content editing system that allows website pages to be edited on the page as it is displayed to a normal site visitor — no more back-end administration, no more navigating endless administration pages to add a simple line of text. Simply login as an Administrator, Editor or Registered User, visit the page you need to edit and make the change.

Why designers love Exponent

Exponent CMS is modular and flexible. Content Management can be mirrored throughout a site and edited in any instance or copied from any page that the content is placed on, or simply created as unique content. Multiple site themes and CSS stylesheets are easily integrated, and sub-themes — separate frameworks for content within a common appearance or theme — are possible with minimum fuss. A large range of different content modules can be activated via the Admin interface with ease and used. Other community-supported modules can be uploaded and installed automatically in a few moments, and external scripts can be incorporated with ease. Exponent's framework also rewards developers who need to create their own custom solutions.

Exponent is Open Source

Exponent is created for the community, by the community. Exponent developers support the Exponent Project because they believe in the system as a new and radically different CMS and because they appreciate its underlying simplicity and common sense.

Exponent Roadmap

For details of the current roadmap for Exponent development, visit the Exponent About section of the main website. You may also want to look at the following pages:

License

Exponent CMS is free software which you can redistribute and/or modify under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

If you're new to the Open Source community, you can find out more info using the links above or at:

Exponent Demo

You can test drive the latest stable release of Exponent using the demo link on the Open Source CMS Exponent page. This is highly recommended to give you a taste of the excellent features Exponent has to offer.