Offline CMS options

free or lowcost preferred

[dcheney]

I haven't used any CMS systems before and I've been looking through a number of threads in this forum but so far I haven't found anything that addresses the sort of situation I'm considering.

I'm at the early stage of a new project that seems very well suited to a CMS. But the nature of the site means that an offline CMS would be much more useful.

I'm not sure if "offline" CMS is the right term, so here's what I'm think of:

1) enter new articles in CMS
2) generate new pages for those article, plus any index that need updating
3) ftp those to a server
4) serve the pages staticly

My main reason for doing this is that the content of an article, once entered, is unlikely to change ever. So while I could use php or some other dynamic scheme, there is no point (if anything it would make things slower with no benefit).

So, that being said - any suggestions for an offline CMS? The project is going to be non-profit, so free of low-cost is definitely preferred.

Thanks.

[laertes]

CityDesk is a CMS that does that. It's not free, but not super expensive.

[dcheney]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've taken a look at it and it seems ok. Sadly its quite old (last update in 2003) and there seems to be little used (i.e., hard to find any templates, etc. for it). In addition its interface is really annoying (no way to copy templates or articles between projects for example).

Ah well, I'll keep looking. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[hutchic]

I recently had a similar issue. I designed a cms from ground up and included a php cache system with a cache time of 72hrs.

The cache system is fast enough that static pages won't offer any significant advantage