Textyle is a community blog tool based on XpressEngine, a representative open source software of Korea. It provides distinctive features, such as Writing ingredients collector, Writing ingredients storage, and Paragraph editor, so that users are able to create high-quaility documents. Moreover, XE's features (e.g., page, bulletin board, wiki, and member management) make it easy to build a web site even if it has a complicated structure. And, it is possible for all the community members to have their own blog by installing Textyle once. Textyle is designed considering web standards and accessibility, thus, anyone can use it. Since it creates semantically meaningful documents, it is advantageous in SEO(search engine optimization). Textyle's users may use various additional features from XE's open source project community, and new features and skins are being added at this moment. Did I mention that Textyle is an open source free software? 

Before talking about Textyle and Blogging, let's think of cooking. A process of cooking can be divided into 3 steps. First step is deciding which food you would cook. Second, you have to prepare ingredients for the food. Finally, you make it with prepared ingredients. A process of writing is very similar with one of cooking. First, you step is picking a topic about which you would write. Second, you have to collect thoughts and materials related to the topic. Finally, you arrange collected ingredients and ideas to organize your story. 

Existing blog tools are not so helpful in this writing process. They have been advanced focusing on publishing and managing written articles. However, we beilive that the most important thing for blogs is still their contents. So, we ask a question, "How can we help people create more readable, more persuasive, and richer contents?" Textyle is an answer for the question.

Textyle provides Writing Ingredients Collector and Storage to gather thoughts and materials. Ingredients collector bookmarklet make it simple to collect information you find while surfing web sites. Collected quotes, links, images, and movie clips are stored into the writing ingredients storage. Then, you may insert them into your writing by dragging from the storage when you write a post. These attached items will not only make your document flourished, but also make your story more persuasive.

Text paragraph and multimedia contents can be easily added, removed or reordered with keyboard or mouse. This paragraph editor enables you to recognize a writing based on paragraphs instead of words or sentences, so that you can find the best structure of story. Experience the value from this totally new non-linear block-based editing, replacing linear editing since the very first word processor!

XE was started 10 years ago as a BBS software, ZeroBoard. ZeroBoard had been developed with many users and devlopers, and it was renewed into XE by changing from the whole structure in February, 2008. Now, XE is the most popular CMS, and a representative free / open source software in Korea, which have the most active developer community.

XE has following distinctive features.

It is convenient to collect useful information or images for user's writing with writing ingredients collector bookmarklet (available in all browsers) and writing ingredients storage.

It helps users write structured documents, moreover, the resulted documents have search engine friendly structure so that they will be found and indexed well by search engines. It has various paragraph editing components with optimized UI for each data type, and the editing components are being added continuously.

It is possible for many users to join and create blogs by installing one Textyle. It provides a blog directory page so that all postings and comments can be viewed in one page.

Not only Textyle follows W3C web standards, but also, by providing excellent accessibility to users, they can use most of features even if they cannot use a monitor or a mouse.

It supports the XML-RPC interface (a.k.a., Blog API), thus users can publish a posting from external tools to Textyle and vice versa.

It provides various statistics including daily, weekly, and montly number of visitors and referers. Also it shows the most viewed documents and the most active visitors.

Various new addons and skins are being created even at this moment. Since XE is an open source software, anyone can contribute on the development freely.

It's straightforward to add other modules of XE, such as membership managements, bulletin board, page, and wiki. Therefore you can easily build a professional and complicated web sites with blogs.