April 28, 2004

8:08 PM

What is the best free or low-cost content management software for Web site management?
posted by tranquileye to (7 comments total)

With a learning curve, but Typo3.
posted by Gyan at 8:11 PM on April 28, 2004

I have a colleague who is volunteering for a non-profit that distributes a lot of reference material on its Web site. They run their site on a shared host, so they have access to PHP, Perl, MySQL and so on, but not to Apache config files. Something Wiki-like seems like a good fit, but he doesn't know which wiki would be best (there are a lot) and the slash clones aren't a good fit.
posted by tranquileye at 8:14 PM on April 28, 2004

There is a flat-file wiki that works well and is an easy install, but the problem with Wiki's is that you have to whip up some killer templates because the internal wiki-languages don't have a lot of layout options. Which may not be an issue.

A flat-file wiki may work ok if your site isn't or won't be huge.

For the life of me I can't remember what I installed (wiped that machine) but it was perl, flat-file, and worked out of the box on OS X.

I'm pretty sure it was Kwiki
posted by mecran01 at 8:34 PM on April 28, 2004

http://www.opensourcecms.com/
posted by gramcracker at 8:51 PM on April 28, 2004

If you are looking for commercially supported products, check out CityDesk.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 9:21 PM on April 28, 2004

phpnuke has worked wonders for me. All sorts of plugins for it too.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 1:11 AM on April 29, 2004

Please do a search before posting. This question gets asked pretty much every week.
posted by mkultra at 7:23 AM on April 29, 2004