Announcing Templation: An original concept in lightweight web frameworks

Templation is a new concept in site development. Rather than being a restrictive content-management system or a complicated web application framework, Templation is a simple system that allows your pages to be implicitly served into templates. Templates themselves are extremely simple, but are extensible through the use of widgets.

The core idea is to provide hooks into the natural hierarchy of your website. This means you can define elements (templates, navigation, etc) for an entire site or directory in one place. Because Templation is aware of the site hierarchy, it can automatically do things like nest navigation lists, or removing the link to the current page. Best of all, Templation is controlled through the use of standard HTML meta tags, and goes to great lengths to stay compatible with existing PHP scripts so it is ideal for designers and developers who prefer to hand-code their sites.

Development is proceeding rapidly, and there's a very good chance I will personally implement feature requests that people have. Public Beta 2 is available immediately from the Templation website.