[thelist] blogger as a CMS, was: RSS & Big, Static Sites

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hmm. I've been thinking about this, and taken my first look at Blogger.

Now quite a few bits of my site are either news snippets (ie a classic Blog)
or are bigass lists in a structured format
(eg http://www.easyweb.co.uk/articles/now_reading.html)

I'm paranoid, so don't want to give Blogger my FTP security details, but
also don't want to
* a foreign URL on my site
* have invisible frames, masking their URL
* lose all my XSSI cleverness on the pages it runs

So I started thinking - what if I used their tempate functionality & stored it
all in XML, and syndicated it in? Blogger got there ahead of me:
http://www.blogger.com/rss_with_blogger.pyra

Then I saw their 'Team' functionality. Now this doesn't seem to have workflow
capabilities, but *does* give some of the distributed team functionality you'd
want in a CMS.

Finally, I saw the visual editor - it's a bit basic, but that's maybe what you
need.
It allows microformatting (bold, italic, links and line breaks) only, plus any
HTML
you want to add manually. And it appears to do so without wodges of nested
<font> tags, or the kind of garbage Word2k puts out (eh, Rudy?)

My thought is, is this the kind of basic CMS which some sites have been looking
for?

Opinions?

Cheers
Martin

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