The lack of standardised approaches in the development of webbased systems is an ongoing issue for the developers of commercial software. To address this issue we proposes a hybrid development framework for web-based solutions that combines much of the best attributes of existing frameworks but utilises open, standardised W3C technologies where possible. This framework called openMVC is an evolution of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. An implementation of openMVC has been built over a 5-tier architecture using Java and .NET.