It's a templating engine. You write your documents in an outliner like JOE or Radio UserLand and it turns them into web pages for you.

First, you make a template file that defines what you want your web pages to look like. What the title should look like, what a heading should look like, and so on.

Then, you write your web pages in an outliner. Outline depth (indentation) determines what style should be applied to your pages. For example, this page looks like this in JOE:

Once you've finished writing, you run Upstreamer, which finds which files you've changed, calls the TabTemplate renderer to make the HTML, then sends them (via FTP) to your website.

Easy!

Not yet!

This is part of a larger project. If I don't finish that, it might be free ... but you can't have it yet, sorry :)

• JOE - a free outliner (requires Java)
• Radio UserLand - an app server / weblog editor with a secret built-in OPML outliner
• Buzz - a free cross-platform outliner (in Python / wxPython)
• Woody - a free text-mode outliner for Linux (in Python)
• Think - GPL outliner for GNOME
• KOutline - a free outliner for KDE
• Canopy Outliner for Mac
• Java EXAminer - outliner applet in Java

For Frontier:

• HALO - a Frontier script for rendering outlines
• FAQMAN - a Frontier script to make FAQ pages
• Notes on outline formatting with Frontier

For Radio:

• Radio LiveOutline - a plugin for Radio to make a whole website out of one outline
• pikeRenderer - an almost exact equivalent of TabTemplate for Radio
• How to write HTML in an outliner (April 2002) - Some notes on pikeRenderer