Beta time, baby!

And if that somehow got you to this posting, and you don't hate us, then perhaps we can formally introduce our company. We're called JoinSources. We're brand new. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Three guys. Self-funded right now. Dedicated to using our experience to develop the best Web publishing platform that is equally empowering to site designers, developers and their clients.

Since this is our first official posting, let's introduce some of the core concepts behind JoinSources that we hope will make it truly unique. You may have noticed we used the phrase "equally empower" to describe our mission. What we are trying to say is right now every product in the marketplace seems to do a poor job of balancing the needs of designers, developers and content managers. We want to change this—and here's the core principle that drives our design.

Developers will make or break our product.

We want to make a Web publishing platform that makes developing a dynamic Web site easy AND requires absolutely no server-side scripting (PHP, ASP) on your part. Dare we say we want to even make it fun (in terms of seeing how rapidly you can build a site on JS)? At the same time we want to make sure you can do just about everything that a typcial Web site can do. For example, the formating of the date in this blog was achieved without writing a single line of javascript, Ruby or PHP. Same with the breadcrumb. The HTML templates that drive this site required none of that programming either. But its all dynamic and you can do it if you know DHTML. We're designers and developers who've spent over a decade building Web sites—we know how they work—so we built a back end that does the loops, queries conditionals and all the other programming logic you need to create Web content. JoinSources will surprise you as you take you HTML, CSS and JS files and turn it into a dynamic Web site in a matter of minutes—yes, minutes.

There's more to come as we've finally started blogging. While our beta is closed right now, you can contact us to join our mailing list so you can be one of the people who can demo JS and make it even better. We're giving private demos to investors, and will soon be launching our first Web sites on the platform—oh yeah—this site is running JoinSources.