As the Web-Site Turns

As I said previously, I'll be moving my site over to another server in the coming months. The actual date of the move hasn't been determined yet, but all the content from here needs to be migrated. This will entail some testing and planning.

In the meantime, I've been thinking alot about my content. There is some that needs a database on the backend to provide necessary services. There is other content (magnet content?) that could reside in static files of one sort or another. Mostly How-To's, general information articles and what not. The only problem is in the generation of this content. Currently, the OpenACS framework allows me to add all the content dynamically from any web browser. Adding static content from a remote location would require me to open up ssh or ftp or on and on. I know there are many ways to do this, but I really don't want to open holes in my firewall.

I'm going to try using the CityDesk application. I purchased this previously when I was floundering around for the best way to manage my content. CityDesk is powerful and makes sense for a smaller site with only one (or maybe a few) content provider(s).

Interestingly enough, OpenACS has a neat way of managing static content. It reads it into the backend database, surrounds it with templates if you wish for it to be templated, adds commenting on the pages and well, just makes it easy to have around.

I'll post more about my trials, but if your looking for a good tool for managing and building a website, definately give CityDesk a good once over, it will be worth your consideration.