David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote:
I've been doing a bit of searching around of late to see if there areI've just started looking for a CMS for a project I'm working on - the object here is to make publishing idiot-proof but allowing for lots of headroom (particularly, custom written PHP scripts, and a picture gallery). Just about everything I've seen uses smarts on the server (PHP, Perl, Zope...) but that doesn't necessarily stop you from building a site then using a site ripper (e.g. Pavuk or getleft) to copy it to static html.
useful Linux-based tools that I could use in order to help writing the
site, using 'templates' (ie, common themes for pages, including basic
layout, navigation bars, etc, such that I can change the template and
have the appearance of the whole site change in one easy go).
So far I've had a brief look at:
http://www.aegir-cms.org/
based on MidGuard, wysiawyg editor (activeX). Production control oriented
http://developer.ez.no/
GPL and commercial, wysiawyg editor ($59) but probably overkill
http://www.ampoliros.com/projects/web/magellan/#
CPL, medium sophistication but good structure and UI
http://phpreactor.org/articles/
simple blog with polls
http://www.phpx.org/
another blog type, easy admin facilities
http://www.plone.org/
polished blog with tools, but based on zope
http://freshmeat.net/projects/safari/?topic_id=897
Perl CMS, basic but skewed towards periodic issues
http://www.phpnuke.org/
PHP based portal system. Modular. lots of add-ins (chat, mail, rss, polls, ....). Sophisticated.
Although I've not delved too deeply yet, in most cases, building the templates and developing code which fits in with the native authentication / sessions stuff looks like a lot more effort than if it were just a single page - but of course you do get the benefits of re-use.
Meanwhile I'll be watching this thread with interest.
HTH
Colin
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