[Web4lib] Another CMS question

Fri Oct 27 12:15:26 EDT 2006

I'm a little late in responding to this message, but I wanted to let you
know that the beta version of an open-source, PHP/MySQL-based CMS just went
live the day before yesterday.  You can find it and it's documentation here
(http://apps.carleton.edu/opensource/reason/).

The web services group at my college developed this software, and our whole
college uses it.  You can see our library's web site here (
http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/) and the main page for the college
here (http://www.carleton.edu/).

Best,
Iris

On 10/17/06, Thomas Bennett <bennetttm at appstate.edu> wrote:
>
> To use Plone you would have to convert the ASP pages to Zope Page Template
> syntax for use with database access, although you could probably still use
> your Access Database with a Zope ODBC database adapter which I understand
> is
> cheap and worth the money if you go that route with mxodbc by egenix.  The
> structure of a Plone site (look and feel) is completely controled by CSS
> and
> there is easy access to those CSS pages to allow you to customize them for
> your own look and feel.
>
> On the other hand, I did a quick google on 'ASP pages to Plone' and found
> ASPBite a content management system for IIS.
>
> http://www.aspbite.com/aspbite/categories/index.asp
>
> From their site:
> "ASPBite is a FREE comprehensive, modular ASP application which deals with
> memberships, categories (content management), news, articles, uploads,
> downloads etc. Its easy to use and highly rated. With basic IT knowhow you
> can have a very capable website in minutes!"
>         June 2004 Coverdisc,
>         supporting a 5 page featured masterclass on ASPBite v7.
>
> You may want to look at that for IIS CMS, I don't know anything about just
> saw
> it from google.
>
>
> From the results of that same search I also found from the SourceForge
> Email
> Archive: plone-users:
> "Running asp side by side is possible, using a transparent redirect such
> as
> Apache, pound (I think), or Enfold"s proxy product
> (http://www.enfoldsystems.com/Products/EEP/Features). You could also
> redirect
> with simple links from one server to the other, using similar URLs (www1
> and
> www2 for example).
>
> I am using Enfold"s version of plone (Enfold Enterprise Server), which has
> been packaged nicely and integrated with Windows, primarily to ensure
> support
> exists for our Intranet in case I am hit by a bus (I am in a nearly all
> windows shop), but also because they have done some integration work that
> I
> value. It may be of value to you as well."
>
> This may be useful if you don't need all ASP pages controlled by a CMS.
>
>
> Thomas
>
> On Monday 16 October 2006 22:38, Knight-Davis, Stacey L. wrote:
> > I followed the CMS thread with great interest and read more about the
> > products that were recommended.  However, I'm still not sure which
> > option is best for my situation.
> >
> > I'm getting ready to spend a lot of time converting about 200 pages in
> > our library's website from a table and image map layout to CSS.  When I
> > am done, 8 other librarians and staff  will be able to edit these pages
> > and I don't want the pages inadvertently covered in <font> tags or
> > trashed by Word when someone else updates a page.  Everyone editing
> > knows basic HTML, but there are only 2 people with CSS experience.  I
> > don't want to control the content so much as make sure no one is messing
> > up the code.  This is the only site I manage, and another librarian is
> > the admin for the library web server.
> >
> > Because of the number of pages involved, and the number of people
> > editing the site,  I am thinking about a CMS.  However, I after reading
> > through the documentation for several products, I don't know it there is
> > anything free/cheap that will work.  We are running IIS on Windows 2000
> > Server and have a large number of ASP pages.  All of our electronic
> > resources listings, resource guides, and web resources pages run off of
> > Access databases on ASP pages.  The home page is also ASP.  We have a
> > few FileMaker Pro databases running various local indexes and services.
> > Everyone is very happy with the ASP pages and we don't want to change
> > them, and no one wants to switch the FileMaker stuff to another system
> > either.
> >
> > So, I think I'm asking:
> >
> > 1.  Is there a cheap CMS that will let us keep Access and ASP and run on
> > Windows 2000?  It looked like Plone would run on Windows, but I couldn't
> > determine what would have to be done with the ASP pages.
> >
> > 2.  If there is no cheap CMS solution, what are the recommendations for
> > web editors that are easy to learn and will make working with a style
> > sheet easy?  We have several copies of Dreamweaver available, but I
> > haven't had much luck getting people to use it.  TinyMCE was
> > interesting, but I don't really need a web-based application if all I'm
> > getting is an editor.
> >
> > Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Stacey Knight-Davis
> > Booth Library
> > Eastern Illinois University
> > http://www.library.eiu.edu
> > slknight at eiu.edu
> >
> > 600 Lincoln Ave.
> > Charleston, IL  61920-3099
> > 217-581-7549
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