I'm surprised no one here has ever mentioned UserLand Frontier. It started out on the Macintosh as a scriptable database application, and has evolved into a Mac/Win 'content management system.' It's especially aimed at web site development. While I'm certainly no Frontier pro, I've used it quite successfully for a few of my own personal sites. >From <http://www.scripting.com/Frontier5/whatisfrontier.html> : >With Frontier 5 for Windows and Mac you can build and publish >big-content sites that are easy to manage, for you, for your >writers and designers. > >Features and Benefits > >Frontier 5 is the first Content Management System that works like >powerful systems for print publishing. A solution to the problem >every large site has, how to separate form from content. > >Frontier makes it easy to keep complicated HTML out of the way of >writers, and gives you, the site builder, all the tools you need >to manage the site. When the designers want to change the >template for the site, just plug in the new design and rebuild >the site. What used to take a couple of weeks now happens in a >couple of hours! Really. No WYSIWYG here, though. It's straight ASCII text for both content creation and scripting. Personally, that suits me just fine. Frontier was free (yes, FREE) for quite some time, but they began charging real money after version 5.1 came out a year or so ago. It used to be that you could DL v5.0 for free, but it looks like that's no longer the case. You might be able to find an installer floating around somewhere, though. Paul Kathy said: >At 7:39 AM -0800 3/11/99, Steven J. Owens wrote: > >> The request was for a system to let the staff in a company >>"publish documents to the web" using a unified style. I started >>to reply with a description of a database& html forms system that >>could be easily built to handle something like this. However, >>with some thought I realized that forms alone wouldn't provide a >>very friendly editing environment. > >there are some big gaps here, steven - like platform, for one. > >you can provide 'publishing' so that the end user never sees HTML - by >making everything that's 'content' live in a database - build the templates >for output. and actually, these forms can provide a more 'user-friendly' >interface than having to learn "code." ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The NEW Web Consultants Association FORUMS and CHAT: Register Today at: http://just4u.com/forums/ Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants Give the Gift of Life This Year... Just4U Stop Smoking Support forum - helping smokers for over three years-tell a friend: http://just4u.com/forums/ To get 500 Banner Ads for FREE go to http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=111261 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
