While Wiki, Mason, MoveableType are all great, how about trying something like PostNuke or Envolution which are PHP based. There are several people in these communities that work on Mac and I've personally found running them on a my iBook for development a snap. There are many Gallery-type modules available which would certainly suit your purposes.
As for a server, I found the using Redhat 7.3 on my old P2 much easier to use and available support was more plentiful than FreeBSD. Good Luck Paul On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote: > Listers, > > While I wait to resolve perl errors on my Jaguar perl 5.6.0, I have a > more generic question re content-management. > > I want to make a few websites for a few starving artists and galleries > starving = zero or tending to zero resources; artists = almost computer > illiterates). I have promised them the world in that the websites would > be dynamic... visitors would be able to search for artworks based on > different criteria, there would be an events calendar, etc. etc. More > than anything, once set up, these artists/galleries would be able > update the website themselves. After promising all this, I said to > myself, "Oops!". > > Additionally, I have to develop these websites on my iBook, and host > them on a cheap, server I am going to buy from eBay and install FreeBSD > on it. My assumption is the FreeBSD is gonna be the closest to OS X in > its directory layout and tools, and therefore not send me on too much > of a loop (while these artists view me as a computer god, I am actually > a Unix newbie). > > Here is my thinking -- I should consider using something like > MoveableType or even a wiki to make the websites. That would allow the > artists to themselves update the content as desired. I could use > something like Mason, but I really don't want to get into mod_perl for > now (I know Mason can work without mod_perl, but really likes mod_perl > around). I want to have a little a standard deviation as possible from > the stock installs... read, Apache 1.3.26 and perl 5.6.0 that comes > with OS X. I am not averse to MySQL (I know MySQL quite well) but am > not comfortable with PostGres (hence, Bricolage/Mason would not be an > easy choice for me). > > MoveableType is really elegant... could it be configured to create an > art gallery website? Wiki is perhaps the most elegant in its > simplicity... what do you folks feel about that? > > Any advice much appreciated on any or all aspects of the above. > > Puneet. >
