Ken Seehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a new python based CMS. ... One that won't keep me up all night .... > > I've been fooling around with zope and plone, and I like plone for some > things, such as a repository for online project documentation. However > for general-purpose web development it is too monolithic. Is there > anything out there with the following properties? > > 0. Web page being developed is a typical small business home page (i.e. > not a newspaper or a blog). > 1. Page owner can edit pages on line with no expertise (plone does great > here). > 2. Main page does not look plone-like. For an example of a main page > that does not look plone-like, see http://www.arbitrary.com/ Note the > lack of CMS style navigation widgets. > 3. Item 2 should be reachable with nearly no effort (plone fails utterly > here). > 4. Target viewer (not the owner), should /not/ see something that looks > at all like a CMS system, but rather see exactly what the page owner > wants the page to look like. > 5. Page owner should be able to view and navigate the tree of contents, > and select pages to edit with a wysiwyg editor (plone does great here)... > 6. ... But the target viewer should not see this tree. See items 2 and 4. > 7. Potential to add python scripted pages of various kinds. > > <philosophy> There are a couple different design approaches to making a > development environment. You can let the developer start with nothing, > and provide the developer with tools to create something (e.g. zope, > most plain text editors), or you can start with a finished result and > let the developer rip out and discard what is not desired (e.g. plone). > I often prefer to start with nothing. It's a natural starting point. > Note that systems that are based on starting with nothing can provide > the benefits of starting with something by providing templates and such. > </philosophy> > > I would love to see a system that would give me an editable Hello World > page in under 5 minutes. Hello World would be a page consisting of > nothing but the words "hello world" (no tools, no navigation bar, and > certainly no CMS navigation stuff) in a url such as > www.myhelloworldwebsite.com/hello and a different url to edit the page, > such as www.myhelloworldwebsite.com/hello/edit or > www.mywebsite.com/edit/hello
Django + flatpages maybe? Coming from the starting from nothing approach. There are links to some sites built with it in the docs below. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/flatpages/ A bit more of a learning curve but you'll definitely be in charge. Somebody used to Django could set up a flatpages site in 5 minutes probably! It will take you a couple of hours the first time though. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
