push-type CMS's

looking for ones that publish HTML files

[drakke]

I want to publish websites using html. That is I want to use a CMS that creates html files that I will FTP to the web server.

The only CMS's that I see are CityDesk (PC) that is no longer in development, Rapidweaver (Mac) and Sandvox (Mac).

Are there any others that uses this 'push' paradigm to send HTML to a server.

Thanks.

[drakke]

I am surpried that no one else has thought of using this type of CMS.

I recently had a Wordpress that just would not allow me to log into the back end. I was using this as a website rather than a blog and a simple html site would be much easier to debug and would work on many hosts that can serve static files.

If I had a lot of clients like this I would be worrying that one could have a problem that could take days to resolve. An html-based website would solve a lot of these issues.

[janharders]

depending on how heavy you want to go on the management-part, template toolkit might be the tool of choice. it's a heavy duty templating system and it comes with a script that'll parse templates (which can include files for content, menus etc pp) and generates html-files. combine it with a script that generates the content-pages in themselve and you might have what you want.

I guess most people want some form of dynamic content on their website and people figure "I need php anyhow, why not just put the CMS on the server"...

[ergophobe]

There are lots of development tools that do this (e.g. Dreamweaver).

You could also run just about any CMS on your local machine, run wget and make a copy of the site, and then FTP the thing over. That could probably be scripted to be done fully automatically.

[choster]

The Boost module for Drupal works in this way. It generates HTML files and then uses URL rewriting to deliver them to visitors. In theory, I suppose you could run Drupal locally with Boost, then upload the HTML files and .htaccess files to your server, but I've never tried it.

[drakke]

I think Adobe Contribute will edit html sites directly and republish results.

It is a desktop application that 'connects' to the server to get pages into the editor. There is also a server that can manage the process in multi-user environments. It will work with Dreamweaver templates as well.