On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:32:39 GMT, Adrienne Boswell wrote: >Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Water Cooler v2" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writing in news:1143627824.174540.13710 >@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com: > >> I know what it is, and yet the knowledge of what a CMS is, is so vague >> that I find myself asking this question every now and then. I've >> googled and read the resources too. However, the knowledge is still not >> clear. It is so vague. >> >> > >For me, it was a way to give my client (local parish) some things: >1. An easy way for them to make _content_ changes to their website, >without getting into the nuts and bolts and potentially creating havoc. >2. A way to make the site searchable for the user. >3. A way from keeping them from publishing Word documents as HTML - urgh! >4. A way to have content changes immediate, and not have to wait for 24 >hours before their current hosting company downloads content (in Word, >with no navigation). > >I rolled my own in ASP/Access, not very complicated because I didn't need >anything complicated.
Try taking a look at Joomla: http://www.joomla.org/ I generally hand code PHP sites, but occasionally use a CMS. Of all the ones I tested, Joomla seemed (to me) to be the most flexible. If you install the JCE (WYSIWYG) editor, it actually has a "paste from Word" function that tries to strip out as much MX cr*p as it can - but it's a tall order! I've [even] used Joomla for pretty simple non-"blog" sites simply for the remote admin and the search functions. It really is best suited for the more "newsy" community sites. It's definitely worth a look at, IMHO. Adam. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
