Re: Web CMS

Plone (http://plone.org) is a CMS that, with entransit
(http://www.enfoldsystems.com/Products/Entransit) accomplishes exactly
what you've asked. entransit takes plone content and dumps it into a
filesystem or a database for serving by another system.

Derek

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Brandon H. Byars
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>  I've been tasked with making a CMS recommendation for a fairly
>  high-traffic website, or possibly multiple websites. The problem, of
>  course, is that I know absolutely nothing about CMS systems :)
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>  So, most CMS systems that I'm aware of seem to want to control both
>  content management _and_ content delivery. The delivery part needs to
>  be separate -- there will be at least one Rails front end, and the
>  view templates will contain container elements that we expect to fill
>  by calling out to a CMS system. It'd make it really nice if the CMS
>  system would publish content to the filesystem and let us determine
>  where that content goes, making it transparent to the Rails app. I'm
>  not even sure what the correct term for this style of CMS is (if it
>  has one), which would help my Googling.
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>  The company in question doesn't have heavyweight CMS needs. They need
>  to be able to do live previews, some basic auditing and versioning,
>  I18N, and scheduled based content updates. Some lightweight workflow
>  would be gravy but not necessary. And they're really looking for
>  something that's free as in beer...
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>  Any recommendations?
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>  Brandon Byars
>  http://brandonbyars.com
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