Tom, You may want to check out Zope - it's an open source CMS framework written in python. http://www.zope.org Plone is a cms written for zope. http://www.plone.org Plone's xhtml/css validates to w3c standards out of the box. elevateIT http://www.elevateit.org is a portal extension for plone. You might take a look at other zope powered websites: http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZopePowered/ Other zope related things: zope quickstart http://neoboard.net/ a simpler cms http://www.infrae.com/products/silva A caveat to using zope http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/why-not-zope.html Other cms' you may want to look at: obliquid: http://dev.obliquid.com/ hth -chris http://www.semioticpixels.com