Re: Using WebGUI content management system?

synq, I have not heard of it, but did visit the site, checked out the demo and found it lacking, IMHO, even simplistic, particularly in the area of control over design elements, style sheets, etc.

I use a combination of Perl, HTML::Template, MySQL, and the MS DHTML Editing Component (severely tweaked to use CSS tags, etc.). It gives the user much more typographic control and control over images and their placement.

My biggest beef with Content Managers is with the editor itself. Granted the MS Editing Component is only supported in IE on Windows (and I do all my development on a Mac), it allow the user to style content without seeing the HTML code behind it (I wish other browsers supported TextRange and the like--so we could build our own WYSIWYG editors).

I'm sure there are some qualities of WebGUI that are not revealed on first brush, but IMO I don't see the robustness called for in these days of CSS and XHTML.

You should check out the similar Typo3 open-source system as well.

—Brad
"A little yeast leavens the whole dough."

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2Re: Using WebGUI content management system? by jeffa (Bishop) on Dec 29, 2003 at 14:04 UTC
I am not sure how this relates to the MS Editing Component, but i have been using HTMLArea 3.0 as a means to allow my clients to edit certain portions of HTML on a page. It sometimes works in Mozilla, but it really is for IE only. Just for the heck of it, here is a Apache::Template page that uses HTMLArea to allow the guys in my band to be able to change the content on their 'home pages' at our band site: Read more... (2 kB) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: 2Re: Using WebGUI content management system? by bradcathey (Prior) on Dec 29, 2003 at 19:43 UTC
jeffa, many thanks. Checked out htmlArea and it looks very promising, and the price is right. I plan on spending some more time with it. —Brad "A little yeast leavens the whole dough."	[reply]