[thelist] Free CMS for magazine-style publishing
evolt at miaridge.com
evolt at miaridge.com
Sat Oct 25 12:49:05 CDT 2003
I'm putting together a site for a zine with multiple authors and one or
two editors. Articles should be grouped by category or by edition. I
know most CMS products do categories, but does anyone know of any that
allow publication by edition? That is, each article will be associated
with a particular edition as well as a category.
The required features are:
* magazine-style publication by edition
* ability to create categories
* customisable layout - different layouts for different kinds of article.
In most categories it would be a basic three column plus header and footer
page.
* security - should be securable, with no known exploits in current
versions
* free (the zine is a labour of love)
* basic workflow or at least basic staging (e.g. draft/published status)
* valid and accessible HTML/XHTML if possible
* MySQL, PHP, Perl or Python.
I've considered xaraya and postnuke. I use Movable Type for blogging but
it's not suitable for this. I've been googling and reading various CMS
sites for a while, but I haven't found a definitive recommendation yet.
If people would rather reply off-list I'd be happy to summarise the
responses and post it back.
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Mia Ridge http://www.miaridge.com/
Web and Database Application Developer
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