[ale] OSS CMS Software

[Jim Lynch]

Jonathan Glass wrote:

> We're looking for some kind of content management system that runs on
> Apache2.  The purpose is to allow non-technical users to be able to
> maintain their own web pages, without having to learn HTML, SCP, or SSH. 
> I'd prefer OSS, but if I have to go commercial, I'll consider it.
> 
> Any thoughts/projects?
> 
> The only really interesting site I've seen is Bricolage (bricolage.cc),
> but the web developer feels it is too oriented towards news sites.
> 
> Thanks!
Take a look at Zope (http://zope.org/).  It lets an admin of a web site 
divide the site up into pieces of the tree and assign sub-administrators 
to those pieces.  It's written in Python so if you need to customize or 
extend its features, you can.  There is a tutorial that gives you a good 
flavor of its usage and features.  I installed it and ran the tutorial 
on Linux in just a few hours.  Don't ask me any questions, 'cause I've 
pretty much forgotten all I learned.  8)

Jim.