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BSherrill
06-04-2002, 12:10 AM
Sorry I would like to know the Technical Term for this...

EX: One of your staff members goes to a WebPage that has the Design layout for your websites homepage they edit it (with news) and then put in their username and password and it updates it on the site. So they dont have to know HTML, Frontpage or anything like that.

Thanks for anyone who can answer this.

Rewdog
06-04-2002, 12:16 AM
Sounds like a php/cgi/asp script?

Newspro comes to mind

mwatkins
06-04-2002, 12:18 AM
Most "weblog" or "portal" sites have a form of content management capability -- frequently now a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editing capability that you access from a browser.

Any authorized user can post content. More advanced systems have approval mechanisms and workflow, allowing for concepts like submitted, published, etc - even publication dates or date ranges - to be associated with content.

Price can range from free to many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Very high quality open source solutions exist for CM (Content Management) the most famous of which is probably Zope or ACS / OpenACS. Lots of assembly required.

Many simpler solutions exist as open source - these often deliver a lot of functionality but some assembly will be required.

BSherrill
06-04-2002, 12:21 AM
Thanks for the information...

Do you know of any Websites that I can go to? :D Thanks

RotoHost
06-04-2002, 12:22 AM
www.phpnuke.org and www.postnuke.com may be what you are looking for. PostNuke is generally regarded as a bit more secure though.

mwatkins
06-04-2002, 12:28 AM
Assuming that you are interested in zero cost rather than big cost...

In addition to Phpnuke/postnuke, these are also PHP / MySQL based:

Geeklog - http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/
Phpwebsite - http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

I have done some work with Geeklog - I like it.

More Advanced:
Zope (Python, object database) - http://www.zope.org/
Open ACS (TCL, PostgreSQL) - http://openacs.org/

And I am in the middle writing a Python based CM solution for one of my projects but don't have a catchy name for it yet. LOL. Zope and Open ACS were too big; the PHP based solutions too limited. So I'm aiming for middle ground.

If you have loads of dough:

Contact me. LOL

Or buy Vignette or something like that.

APEXware
06-04-2002, 01:07 AM
Also go to www.myphpnuke.com . It is supposed to come with the most features of the 'nuke' CMS's already included instead of having to add them on. And it's supposed to be stable.