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I have done a site search and read many posts regarding CMS. I have also looked on hotscripts and other sites looking for what I need. I have been doing this for a few housr now with no luck...so here goes.
I am looking for a CMS that is very simple and creates clean pages. Basically, I want to go into an admin and enter in variables such as page title, file name, heading, content, etc.
Then, I want it to create a page and place a link on another page that links to all articles. (The link on the article archive page would be the title of the page created.)
I want each article page created to have a unique title.
<Title>Article about dogs.</Title>
<Title>Another article about dogs.</Title>
<Title>Article about cats.</Title>
I would like for the article page to be titled something like:
article_about_dogs.htm (or .php, .shtml, whatever.)
article_about_cats.htm
I would simply have a template that the article would be inserted into. My goal is to go into an admin panel and enter in articles easily and efficiently.
I add about 10-20 articles per day and it is becoming a big pain to edit by hand, then upload, etc. This would surely streamline the process.
Most CMS solutions that I have seen create really crazy urls and such.
Does anyone know of a CMS that is this simple? Seems like there would be something available. I can not code from scratch, so I need something that I can make a few adjustments to and then launch.
Thanks for the help everyone...I hope I was clear in my post.
-Julian
It will do what you'd like, once you get the software set up on the server. You can add pages, articles, polls, surveys, images etc. The layout is controlled by a template which you can customize or create your own and you can even have multiple templates for your site.
It's written in Perl so will run on nearly any type of server. It uses MySQL for the database on a *nix install, but has other database options. The script is open source, so it's free to download and try.
Finally, it's SEO/SEM friendly and with some server-side apache tweaks, yields urls that are search engine friendly. (the urls without this tweak are still friendly - with the tweak you get www.widgets.com/blue-widgets and without the tweak you get www.widgets.com/index.pl?blue-widgets) The setup can take a bit of doing if you're not familiar telnet/SSH and command line stuff, but once it's set up it is terrific.
Hope this helps.
LisaB
I will certainly try your suggestion. I have been playing with Greymatter for a few minutes and it seems to do everything that I want it to except for filenames. It creates filenames that look like 0000000178.html
Thanks for the suggestion.
-Julian
