Introducing d-works

The last weeks, I've been working like hell on a commercial product based on an idea I was blogging about during last summer, Domino Workspace. The product is called 'd-works'. It has its own website: www.d-works.be and we are rolling out five lucky pilot customers this week.

The d-works site

This is an IBM Lotus Notes Domino application, what else. It is multi-lingual, valid XHTML 1.0 and section 508 compliant, as all modern websites should. I used this trick from Jake Howlett to embed a login form on the homepage. Don't try to log in: it's for registered users only. We hope to add lots of content, screenshots and even free downloads and demos in the next weeks.

About d-works itself

It is a suite of IBM Lotus Notes Domino applications allowing to build a complete Intranet in a matter of minutes. Some of the features:

• Blogs, wikis and announcements
• Multiple themes
• Semantic rich text editor, tagging with tagclouds and typeahead
• Drag and drop images
• Easy file uploads
• My space: quick overview of all your own documents
• Multiple environments possible on a single server, each with their own look and feel
• Integration of any web page, external application, mail system with loose HTTP-coupling or Ajax
• Possibility to share common applications (help, bug tracking, ect.)

d-works also has a special CSS system called 'dw-flex' that allows to change the look and feel of the entire application with the click of a button. In the demo, there is even a theme switcher that gives you a theme of your choice for the time of your visit. We hope to set up a demo site that is accessible for non-registered users in the near future.

What next?

I'll explain more on the features and reveal some technical solutions we've used in the next posts. Please visit www.d-works.be and tell me what you think.