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ELFBOY
07-19-2005, 03:04 PM
I just want to make a few pages editable by 3-4 other people. Priority is ease of use for the contributor (WYSIWYG, no HTML knowledge).

The choices I have from cPanel/Fantastico:

MamboOpenSource
PHP-Nuke
PostNuke
WordPress
Xoops
e107
Drupal
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Siteframe
Typo3

I also want the pages to work within my newly redesigned site using header & footer includes (Drupal seems to want use its own templates?)

I looked at a Mambo demo and it didn't look WYSIWYG (had html tags).

The parts of the pages that will be edited are simple text or lists or tables.

Thanks :)

ELFBOY
07-19-2005, 06:02 PM
Just to be clear, I don't want a CMS to "create" a site, I just want others to be able to edit some text.

tsguitar2004
07-20-2005, 04:41 AM
It seems kind of crazy to set up a big CMS just to manage 3 or 4 pages. Still, I'd go for WordPress because it seems more streamlined than other big CMS I've dealt with and it's easy to customize it like you want in regard to design. There's a template system that you'll need to learn and create some PHP pages for, but once you do that you're all set.

But, again, that seems a waste to create all of those database tables for things that you won't use at all.

If you're inclined and able to do so, build your own interface for editing those pages. I've got to say, Rodin (http://rodin.lot23.com) is simple enough to do what you want and that could be the basis of any system you create. I saw someone using Rodin as a way to manage his small site. The title of each entry was the navigation link for that page, so he had "Home," "About," "Contact," etc. and each page was just a Rodin entry. Rodin doesn't have any WYSIWYG editing, but it isn't too much of a hassle to build that in.

Want it "out of the box"? WordPress. Want to create it yourself? Rodin.
-ts