On Tuesday 16 October 2007, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> I'm looking for a basic web authoring environment for a small site of
> *stat8c* pages.  It is hosted on by bestweb user pages, so other than
> the most basic of CGI, it can't even run any server-side services. At 
> one time (a few years back) I had been dabbling in Dreamweaver, although
> that's significantly too expensive.

   Okay, I see; due to the web hosting limitations you have, you're looking 
for *client* side web authoring tools.

> What I'd like would be some CRM-like tool that would manage the style
> sheets, site map, etc, & let me simply drop in text on various pages.
> I'd then just compile the site & upload the static pages.

   Strange thought: several Wiki and CMS packages [Content Management System] 
can do caching of pages to reduce load.  I.E. they build static HTML files 
from the Wiki/CRM language.  So you could install a web server and a Wiki on 
your LOCAL machine, have it build the HTML pages, and then upload them.

> Seems, though, that everything is designed to be run off of active
> servers (at minimum a web server on the authoring system), and most
> often some big SQL server as well.  NVU seems to be too far in the
> simplistic vein, not being able to update a site's pages when you change
> common elements.

   There are several Wiki and other CMS packages that do not require SQL.  
DokuWiki, PmWiki don't use SQL [though I know the latter can be made to do so 
if necessary].  With PhpWiki SQL is optional.  Etc.

TWiki is a cgi-bin script written in Perl, so I suppose it's even possible you 
might be able to run something like that on BestWeb directly if you want to 
try that.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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