Hello, Moveable type is very nice, but lacks more web site management features. I wrote an ASP version of Moveable Type that is free, and includes many more site content management features. http://www.babeltext.com
It was formerly called Hotpile, and had a very advanced WYSIWYG web based editor. But I started thinking: "What does a fancy WYSIWYG editor allow users (especially untrained novices that would typically use a web based small CMS system) to do? It allows God-Awful content to be published that will break all the designer's rules. Comic Sans serif in a 14 bold font on a pink background isn't my idea of the ideal business font, but that's what a WYSIWYG CMS editor allows. So I changed Hotpile to BabelText, ripped out the editor and now have and editor that only allows you set styles of text, such as "make this emphasized", or "make this a blockquote", or "this is a page header" using simple markup. On the backend I use some advanced regular expressions to parse the babeltext markup into valid XHTML. End user have no business changing fonts, colors, size, etc. That's the designers job. Babeltext also has an App Service Provider model, where you can host content on a BabelText powered site, but host the static template/container pages on another site. You just place a single script block with the link to the content in the body of the template page and off you go. Teachers use this when their school requires their web sites to be hosted on the schools' servers. They find the web based interface much easier than emailing/ftp'ing files all over the place. Another interesting CMS application is an email based CMS. Fire up the trusty mail client that produces html email, and place the pagename, userid and password in the subject line and send the mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and then the mail server just spools all mail into a folder that gets grepped every minute or so, the files parsed and inserteds into the CMS database. I'm still working on that one for the Windows platform, but don't have it just right yet. Inline images are killing me. Any way, off the soap box. There's aways PHPNuke and PostNuke, but they are a little harder to administer. Check out babeltext, the first re-release will be shortly. It has: Serial Publishing (weblog/news item type publishing with comments) with a calendar (ala Moveable Type) A built in List Server with self-subscribe and unsubscribe Web based site content management MS Access Back end Runs on IIS servers (yay Windows!) MD5 password storage (very secure) almost NO session variables (more efficient) Search Engine CSS Driven Pure ASP Image/File upload (NO 3rd party activex required) Web based image/file link builder The list grows daily. BabelText is / should always be FREE Be Blessed, Nik Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.babeltext.com 2003-01-04 ======= At 2003-01-01, 21:44:00 you wrote: ======= >I've come across Movable Type as an interesting WYSIWYG CMS / blogging system. I'm >interested in if there are similar open source / free software out there which I can >use as an ASP service, so that, lets say, have people logon to my site to change >their site - something that would be useful for non-profits or sole-proprietorships >small businesses that need wysiwyg type functionality - changing page content and >easily adding / removing pages. > >Thanks. >----------------------------------------------- >Edward Tsai >Search Engine Optimization Consultant - Higher Search Engine Rankings = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -- http://cms-list.org/ a wish for peace in the new year.
