I have just installed pivotlog for my home page, and I normally use Joomla for bigger sites, but it sounds like pivotlog might be what you are after.
Hope it helps
Michael
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of cl@isbd.net Sent: 28 January 2007 16:44 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Content Management Systems - or not!
Well I'm still chasing round in ever decreasing circles looking for some sort of Content Management System for creating a web site for my wife's business.
Thus I want a CMS (or, it seems increasingly likely, something else) with the following sorts of functions and abilities:-
Easy entry of text *and* formatting such as headings, tables, lists, etc., preferably WYSIWYG or nearly so. This needs to be accessible to a non-techie but computer aware user.
Consistent professional look for the whole site, it would be nice if a lot of templates/styles were available but just a few nice ready-made ones which are easy to tune (this can be a bit more 'techie') would be OK.
Simple 'ready made' menu structure and navigation.
What we *don't* need is the ability to have forums, news feeds, blogs and all that sort of paraphernalia, they might be nice to add on at some time but are unnecessary at the moment.
Installation doesn't have to be particularly easy (I've already installed Drupal, CMSMadeSimple, Exponent and TWiki!) and I'm quite prepared to put some 'techie' input into it but the content creation *must* be straightforward and more than just text.
From what I have seen so far playing with Drupal and Exponent the
current CMS systems are really of little use for what we want to do. They make it easy to add different sorts of content and also make it easy (some of them) to manage the structure of a web site but they help very little in making it easy to add the actual content.
We don't even really need a web based system as there will only be two of us involved in creating the site, so although a wiki-like system might be somewhat more like what we're after the whole co-operative input thing would be lost on us.
So, has anyone any comments or ideas? I suspect that I may need to look for something other than 'Content Management' but I wish I knew what it was!