> Sounds like you've already got some level of home-built CMS. > Probably best to continue that direction unless you have a > serious budget.
At the moment it's a bunch of static html files and me with dreamweaver. We currently have about 10, Its eventually going to be at around the 5000 mark. I just can't do that on my own not and keep up with updates as well. > That is a too good price, I'd suspect the product probably > introduces more problems than it solves, Heh, that's what I was worried about - They do a 30 day trial which I finally got working today (not completely their fault) The documentation seems to be a little sparse on the developers side but at least I can integrate it and get an idea before we decide if we want to buy it. At the same time I can hopefully get a better idea on how it all works so I can decide wether I can build our own. It is nice to know that the editing interface is actually the same one in Vignette (Ektron are the ones who write it) > Whatever you do, don't expect it to be instant: I appreciate that, a few weeks to build or integrate something is not a problem, the scale of what the actual content will become is what makes the mind boggle. To give you an idea we stock electric water heating equipment in the UK. We have been doing this for 25 years and we stock for nearly every oem in the country. That's a lot of ranges, and a lot of history. Our main tech guys can identify a 20 year old heater with no name on that even the manufactures have forgotten about - We need to get that information into our computers so our new staff can identify it as well. With a cms I can see people being able to create new content as and when it is needed and on the fly - We have one word document that was a major history of one product, complete with links to the spares in the intranet - it's been a hit amoungst the sales staff and people have been updating it from what I originally wrote. The main complaint is it's not part of the intranet and whilst most people have a shortcut to it on their desktop that isn't going to work for everything. Thanks for your comments - its given me food for thought. I'm going to look more heavily into building our own. Morkai -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
