What simple CMS and/or HTML editors would people recommend for a non-techie user (my wife)? She's most certainly not computer hostile but wants a simple way to create and maintain a small business web site. There's no requirement for selling or an associated database, it will just be a site comprising a few tens of pages outlining what she does with appropriate internal and external links.
It doesn't have to have very sophisticated (or any) FTP management either as I can make the web site appear as a local file system if necessary.
It would be nice if it made it easy to create sidebars, menus, etc.
The ones I have looked at are things like:-
nvu - OK, but seems to have gone to sleep as a project since version 1.0
bluefish - too techie
seamonkey - Too simple, just edits an HTML page and that's about it.
On 1/23/07, cl@isbd.net cl@isbd.net wrote:
nvu - OK, but seems to have gone to sleep as a project since version 1.0 bluefish - too techie seamonkey - Too simple, just edits an HTML page and that's about it.
My parents are using nvu, so I know what you mean about it going to sleep. An easier way to do sidebars and a common look on most pages would be welcome!
We're using subversion, specifically TortoiseSVN at their end, as the storage with exported views of the repository on the webserver.
Regards, Tim.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:50:19AM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 1/23/07, cl@isbd.net cl@isbd.net wrote:
nvu - OK, but seems to have gone to sleep as a project since version 1.0 bluefish - too techie seamonkey - Too simple, just edits an HTML page and that's about it.
My parents are using nvu, so I know what you mean about it going to sleep. An easier way to do sidebars and a common look on most pages would be welcome!
We're using subversion, specifically TortoiseSVN at their end, as the storage with exported views of the repository on the webserver.
There is an 'unofficial' upgrade of nvu called Kompozer, it's at kompozer.net, I'm thinking of trying it.
I've moved my sights (not sites!) slightly and have decided I want a simple CMS system rather than just an HTML editor.
However there seems little choice at the 'lite' end of such things, they all want to be all singing, all dancing, have everything you could possibly want on your web site programs.
I've toyed with CMSMadeSimple which is OK but not all *that* inspiring, I'm wondering whether to go with one of the more popular 'not so lite' ones, e.g.:- Joomla Drupal MySource Classic WebGUI TikiWiki
Does anyone here have any experience of any of these and/or are there any good comparison/review sites? (I've found http://www.opensourcecms.com/ which is useful).
One of the problems is the huge number of CMSs available, in many fields there are just two or three front runners but for this there are dozens and you can't really try them all.
Hi Chris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:05, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I've moved my sights (not sites!) slightly and have decided I want a simple CMS system rather than just an HTML editor.
However there seems little choice at the 'lite' end of such things, they all want to be all singing, all dancing, have everything you could possibly want on your web site programs.
I'm using pivot on my web site http://www.linuxcnc.org at present. A couple of minor edits to one of the templates (in php) to remove the ability for outsiders posting "comments" was about all I did.. For what I do, it covers most of what I need. Only one downside - I've had one correspondant comment on the fonts being too small to read.
Regards, Paul.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:22:58PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Hi Chris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:05, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I've moved my sights (not sites!) slightly and have decided I want a simple CMS system rather than just an HTML editor.
However there seems little choice at the 'lite' end of such things, they all want to be all singing, all dancing, have everything you could possibly want on your web site programs.
I'm using pivot on my web site http://www.linuxcnc.org at present. A couple of minor edits to one of the templates (in php) to remove the ability for outsiders posting "comments" was about all I did.. For what I do, it covers most of what I need. Only one downside - I've had one correspondant comment on the fonts being too small to read.
Looks good, the fonts are OK for me, however it says "Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.", should it? Also if you go to the admin lilnk it definitely thinks it's Joomla!
Hi Chris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:44, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Looks good, the fonts are OK for me, however it says "Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.", should it? Also if you go to the admin lilnk it definitely thinks it's Joomla!
Nuts, cobblers, and other round objects.... Totally wrong URL. Doh!*slap*
Try http:///www.tuxcnc.org instead.
/me goes to find a tree to hang from.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:20:45PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Hi Chris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:44, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Looks good, the fonts are OK for me, however it says "Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.", should it? Also if you go to the admin lilnk it definitely thinks it's Joomla!
Nuts, cobblers, and other round objects.... Totally wrong URL. Doh!*slap*
Try http:///www.tuxcnc.org instead.
/me goes to find a tree to hang from.
:-) No problem, it gave me a Joomla site to look at as well anyway!
http:///www.tuxcnc.org looks OK too, and the fonts aren't too small.
I need to go away and think about what I want some more, but any further input and recommendations would be most welcome.
Is she going to need to update a lot more than just the page content really that much? I'd be tempted to do something like make up the main part of the site with her or use a design from one of the open source template sites and then find some way that she could just edit that content. I made a thing for someone where all the pages where .html or .txt files and each had a wrapper .php page that include()'d the text file they were editing.
Basically customising a CMS solution for her :-)
Ross
On 23/01/07, cl@isbd.net cl@isbd.net wrote:
What simple CMS and/or HTML editors would people recommend for a non-techie user (my wife)? She's most certainly not computer hostile but wants a simple way to create and maintain a small business web site. There's no requirement for selling or an associated database, it will just be a site comprising a few tens of pages outlining what she does with appropriate internal and external links.
It doesn't have to have very sophisticated (or any) FTP management either as I can make the web site appear as a local file system if necessary.
It would be nice if it made it easy to create sidebars, menus, etc.
The ones I have looked at are things like:-
nvu - OK, but seems to have gone to sleep as a project since version 1.0 bluefish - too techie seamonkey - Too simple, just edits an HTML page and that's about it.-- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)
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