Welcome to Living Stones.

Living Stones is designed to make it easy to manage the building blocks that you download and install on your webserver. The only software you'll need to download directly through this website is the Living Stones Starter Kit, which includes a management framework and security structure on which everything else is built. It also includes a Building Block management tool through which you can see and download new building blocks and new versions of building blocks you've already installed.

To use Living Stones Building Blocks, there are basically four things you need:

1. A webserver that supports PHP 4.x or higher and to which you can copy files.
2. Access to a MySQL database on the server to which you can add tables and records. You'll need the database name, the hostname (often 'localhost'), the username, and password required to access the database.
3. The e-mail address that you used to register with Living Stones and that you used to login to access this page.
4. You must agree to the Living Stones license (click here to read it).

Once you've got all that, start by downloading the Starter Kit here.

The zip file you download includes instructions for installing the software in installation.txt. If you have any questions, drop me a note at russ.mcguire@seek-first.com.