To all those who replied, many thanks. To summarize... I wanted an easy to install and use content management system that I could use for creating multiple art websites. The system _had_ to be able to run with Apple's stock perl 5.6.0, and if it used a database, the db had to be simple to install. Simplicity was the key in all of this because eventually these websites would be populated with content by the artists themselves. The system would be developed on my iBook, but would be eventually hosted on a mid-to-low-end server, preferably running FreeBSD/Darwin just so the eventual server would be as close to my OS X layout as possible.
Since this is a perl list, it was to be understood that I wanted a perl-based solution. I got a few php-based answers. It seems that for most folks the php language and its solutions continue to seem to be easier. That seems like a shame for perl, because it really shouldn't be so. Read on... I found a wonderful list at http://www.la-grange.net/cms which I used to further my search. I found callisto to be simply amazing, but was a bit overwhelmed by AxKit. I looked very longingly at bricolage, but I found a few things wrong with it... (1) it requires a lot of complicated pieces to be in place in order to work; (2) not supporting MySQL is problematic for me; (3) there was no way I could "play" with it before deciding... on bricolage's website there are a few screenshots, but that's it... no live demo, no list of other sites I can see that are running bricolage, etc. And, of course, since it is so complicated to install, I couldn't just easily "play" with it. The most popular suggestion from this list was twiki (www.twiki.org) because of its improvements over wiki, mainly file attachments, database plugins, etc. I finally passed over twiki because of what seems to me to be its requirements -- perl 5.8.0 (although a recent post suggested otherwise). Also, I was not quite sure of being able to protect twiki... wikis by nature are laissez-faire, and I didn't quite want that. There were a couple of offers for stuff folks have written, but the problem would be in further extending those works. Funnily, no one suggested MoveableType, which is what I have ended up choosing. MT is elegant, customizable, and best of all, it installed on my iBook like a sweet dream. Literally 3 or 4 keystrokes. Yes, I don't have Imagemagick, but I will deal with that later. MT just installs so easily... I didn't even have to install MySQL... I am just using DB_File which seems to work fine. Btw, is there some place I can read more about BerkeleyDB 1.x that comes with stock Unix as compared to something like MySQL? Sleepycat's website mostly talks about the more recent versions of BerkeleyDB. I am finding DB_File's performance to be a bit viscous, so to say. Anyway, back to MT... another nice thing about it was I could see so many other MT-driven websites. A huge user community, active development, support forum... and really, really easy to work with. Over and out.
