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Kommonwealth is a semantic web builder using drag and drop technology created by Redwerks. What is Kommonwealth? There are two truths about online development:

It's slow; and simple things are still difficult to achieve. Database development takes one of many directions and most new projects (unless they follow a narrow set of requirements) necessitate a brand new schema.

It's expensive: Even basic formatting takes days of CSS coding diverting valuable time away from content development and artistic design.

Online development re-invents the wheel constantly: Projects inherit very little from previous development. Some code is reused, but because there is no real standard new developers often scrap previous work or spend more time unraveling what someone else devised than it would take to rebuild from scratch.

Up until now two opposing solutions have been proposed:

1) Provide templated or single service solutions. These require fundamental compromises in function and style.

2) Provide tools to manage code or code fragments. These don’t address the core issue any more than a dictionary makes a better writer.

Kommonwealth provides a set of functions and widgets that snap together like building blocks to make anything - not just web design elements, but database and deep code. Each “block” contains premade code simple enough to shape custom development but based on clear functions that save hours, weeks, and ultimately months of time.

The system expands when new reusable functions are developed and deposited into a shared library. Any existing function can be called and combined with new additions. Nothing is wasted or recreated. The system continues to get stronger the more it is used.

Kommonwealth works well for designers and ambitious amateurs. Web 3.0 tools are used to create modern websites without the need for CSS or a programmer. If it can be made in a graphics program, the website builder can make an exact copy online without any additional scripting, giving users full design control without the need for programming.

Kommonwealth is built on a robust N-tier framework built using standard Apache, PHP and MySQL and includes hundreds of predefined components handling security, presentation effects, communications and others.

The presentation layer is Ajax-driven, providing a rich Web 2.0 experience with reduced page refreshing. There are strong DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and Literate Editing principles used throughout the system. EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) data model is fully optimized for semantic networking and artificial intelligence.

Kommonwealth includes hundreds of predefined components handling security, presentation effects, communications and others. Meta data wraps every element. Redwerks has advanced searching, editing and data manipulation. Custom EAV database tools built into the business layer provide development ease and speed. Comet - pushing information to traditionally static web pages, and RDF, XML, and other tools already in place.

Competition Kommonwealth faces competition from:

Adobe Dreamweaver is the leading development platform for designers. Kommonwealth is simpler and more powerful, with Ajax-embedded tools that require no programming knowledge

37signal’s Ruby on Rails, while elegant, does not offer a UI builder environment or substantial software components and most significantly does not provide any Semantic web tools. Ruby On Rails also requires developers to adopt Ruby while Redwerks' products are developed for a wider audience. Redwerks also has a direct offering for designers and light developers where Rails simply has no offering.

Unlike products like Wix.com and Sproutbuilder, which are flash site and widget builders, Kommonwealth allows users to create a fully operable semanitic website with the ability to create databases and systems.

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