The CMS on my website is open source, not commercial. There are plenty of open source ones out there, most of which are just as good or better then the commercial ones.
-- Trevor Lauder Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Glad to see someone mentioned Content Management. A CMS (Content > Management System) would be a good solution for a WIKI replacement. The > problem is that commercial packages are expensive, and I don't know the > progress of the open source CMS projects. > > If anyone would be interested in developing a CMS for CLUG, I'm in the > process of creating my own. I have an extensive data model I'd be > willing to share/explain for this specific issue (for CLUG that is, but > don't have the time/resources to do so for everybody who might have a > personal/professional interest - sorry). This model allows template > creation, content creation (and placing the content into the templates), > security, grouping, owerneship of content/templates, revision control, > and with a small addition I'll be making to it this weekend, it also > supports workflows. The model is generic, and not necessarily platform > dependant. That said, I am targeting SQL Server and .NET as my > development environment. But, a data model doesn't really care about > that. > > The toughest part of a CMS is the editor. I have seen a number of them > out there - most of which use the MSHTML objects - which limits us to > IE. There are a few java applets out there, but I've yet to find a free > one that's worth the effort (although I haven't looked TOOOO hard > either). > > Again though - the members of this list are very capable people - we > could create our own if needed. But this does take time. > > Any thoughts? > > Shawn
