Re: Simple content management package recommendations?

In article <ign5nj$8ku$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:43:46 +0000, Tony wrote:

It sounds like you're after a web site development environment,
which is not always the same as a content management
system/framework.

Yes, that would work as well or better. Do you have any
recommendations?

How you do this depends very much upon what sort of site she wants to
produce, how 'polished' she wants it to look, and how much control over
it she wants to have.

Using a package that's intended to provide a blog or a wiki may make it
very easy to build a blog or a wiki but may make it impossible to
construct a site that doesn't fit one of those templates.

If she goes to a commercial web hosting company -- and some of them
offer shared hosting cheaply enough that that's not unreasonable -- she
may find that there is a selection of applications available to provide
things like a blog, a wiki, a photo album, webmail, etc., that she can
just drop data into. These may not all look quite alike (they'll very
likely be different web applications from different developers) and may
not be very flexible in terms of the appearance they present ... but
they'll get the job done and won't require much geek-fu.

If she goes with something a bit more basic -- maybe some webspace
offered by an ISP as part of a broadband package -- she may not have
any of that available, and will only be able to upload HTML pages ...
but she'll have much closer control over the content and the way in
which it is presented. A slightly higher level of knowledge may be
required, but it isn't really difficult. All she'd really need is a
text editor and an FTP package, but there are applications that give a
bit more help and smooth over some of the techy bits.

If you're proposing Ubuntu, then there are a few web design/development
packages that are in the standard repositories. I quite like Quanta
Plus (which is a KDE app, but also runs well under Gnome) which gives a
fairly nice WYSIWYG HTML editor -- there are others but I haven't used
them enough to give an fair opinion.

The one cloud I see over Quanta Plus is that development effort on it
seems to have stalled ... the last release was in 2008. It is missing a
few features that people often ask for, but is complete enough for most
purposes and is a better regarded app than most others.

... then again, some people find tiddlywiki is enough to construct
their sites.

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

(TiddlyWiki's own site is written in TiddlyWiki)

Cheers,
Daniel.


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