RE: the most barest of barebones cms

This is sure to stir some discussion, but you could just use Movable Type. I
would have not said this a month ago, but in recent discussions on the MT
news lists, a number of consultants have chimed in that MT provides the
following benefits for simple CMS projects:

 * rapid deployment
 * cheap
 * small learning curve
 * broad uptake (people like it/its cool)
 * easy to customize (if Perl doesn't make you scream)
 * zero maintenance

I'll be the first to admit that its not perhaps the best tool for mainly
static, page-oriented, hierarchical sites, but the above factors are pretty
important and its easy to try a prototype and run some tests with the
client. 

I was also poking around yesterday and it turns out its fairly easy to
integrate a WYSIWYG editor into the post management forms. There's also
plugins for simple workflow, if that's of interest.

Anyhow, it seems like something worth considering.

Best regards,
Brice

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dustin Krysak
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [CMS] the most barest of barebones cms
> 
> Hi there.. .I have been looking for the most barest of barebones cms.
> 
> I do not need 90% of what is in most CMS systems. And even 
> more so - typically The kind of sites I have been doing - 
> they (clients) do not even want to be able to add new pages, 
> but rather just more content to existing pages (into the 
> database). So I kind of want to make one that is just the 
> backend and leave the front end up to the developer 100 % and 
> just use regular php. Is there such a thing? Maybe just a framework?
> 
> d
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