Try to find a good offline CMS AKA a static HTML generator like Jekyll. Don't use Drupal, joomla or WordPress
On May 7, 2017 6:24:32 PM GMT+02:00, Paul Suh <pl...@goodeast.com> wrote: >Folks, > >Completely off topic, but I'd value input from this community in >particular. I need to recommend a (replacement) CMS for the >public-facing web site for my day job. My wants: > >1) NOT Wordpress -- I don't need the security headaches. >2) Allows updates by users who don't know HTML and for whom Markdown is >a stretch. (Marketing people.) >3) Has commercial support and hosting available -- if it was just me I >could run almost anything on my own. For my day job, however, I need to >make sure that the rest of the IT department can still handle things if >I get hit by a bus. >4) Minimal customization -- certainly no custom code or scripting. >Again, if it was just me..., but it needs to be maintainable down the >road. > >The site has very little necessary in the way of server-side >processing; in fact, a CMS is borderline overkill. A good templating >system would almost do the trick. A really good templating system that >can automatically post selected news item links to Twitter, Instagram, >Facebook, etc. would be great. The only problem is that the marketing >types can't be trusted even with Markdown. :-P > >The site needs to be really flashy and eye-catching for marketing >purposes, so whatever solution needs to support (or at least not get in >the way of) the latest & greatest HTML5/CSS/JS. (I know that the crowd >here is generally going to pooh-pooh that, but it's actually >appropriate for selling to the target audience. I'm mostly the same >way, and have to check my first instincts when dealing with this site.) > > >I've used Plone in the past, but support seems a little thin these days >and it's pretty heavyweight for this project. > >I saw the thread about "Creating a blog..." a year ago, but time has >passed and his use case is significantly different from mine. > >I'm looking for actual, recent experience with a CMS, not "I know a guy >who used to run..." kinds of things. > >Suggestions? > > >--Paul -- Take Care Sincerely flipchan layerprox dev
