Hi. I'm the web officer for the medical school of a large British university.
We have decided to migrate our website to an Open Source content management and publishing platform, and Django is one of the systems we're investigating (Zope/Plone is another serious candidate). I visited another university last week to see how they're using Django, and was mightily impressed. So at the moment we're exploring Django. There is some particular functionality we require from our CMS, and though no doubt our programmers can develop the necessary code, it would nice to know if modules exist already in the Django community for these. So, if can point me in the direction of resources or reading that would help in achieving any of the following I'd be very grateful: * menus The University's webstyle mandates the use of a set of navigation menus, some global and some local (and with fairly complex requirements) * teaser content on nearly all content items By teaser content I mean a short summary of the item, like the news item summaries at <http://news.bbc.co.uk/> * object-oriented linking We need links to survive changes in URIs. Say I have a page at: <http://example.com/departments/pharmaceuticalmedicine> for the Department of Pharmaceutical Medicine, and then the department changes its name to Pharmacology - I'd like all links to that page (and the pages below it in the structure) to be updated to point to the new URI. * LDAP integration Our web authors' credentials will be taken from an LDAP databases, as will visitors (for Intranet access control). I'd also like our staff lists published on the web to be based on the LDAP database. It looks to me that Flat pages is the best choice for the main structure of our site, because the University mandates a hierarchical site structure for its schools. Also, I think that a hierarchical structure will help authors manage their content better. Thanks for any pointers. Daniele --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
