RE: ask for help

> As it relates to your note on Contribute below.....It is sort of like
> FrontPage on steroids (with workflow and versioning), but
> unfortunately it is really for just Web content And is not database
> driven so all storage is file based - which I personally think file
> based systems are definitely NOT the way to store content....but I'm
> trying not to create too much controversy today!!

Well, actually, that was sort of my point. I think some CMS products,
compared to contribute, really don't add anything *but* a database. In
otherwords, the focus is still on web site maintenance/page editing and it
just happens to use a database instead of flat files as the source. It's not
really doing any robust content management tasks.

The product we were using still required us to make a new template for
almost every page we needed to produce. Even though it had the database
there, we were still maintaining some semblance of a physical page structure
using the template system. 

In hindsight, we weren't really benefiting a whole lot from the fancy 'cms
database'. It wasn't a whole lot different than a set of flat files and some
creative use of includes...at least for our particular set-up/needs.

-Darrel
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