Those of you who know me know I have been working on a content management system (CMS) for something like my whole life. This is more than just [[e2:mental masturbation]] as the CMS is the tool that defines the types and quality of the sites I can put together. I am a creature of information, and everything I want to do involves creating, organizing and publishing that information.
Without a tool for this that suits me, I have been hampered and frustrated. I have looked at almost all of the tools around, and really only Movable Type has survived for long, and I now see that as a mistake. Reliance on it let me do some stuff, but held me back from taking the time when I had time to build what I needed. Lately Xaraya took my fancy – but fell short of some of the things I need…
- Simple templating that doesn’t get in the way of site design and functionality
- Wiki style internal page linking
- Wysiwig HTML editing
- Versioning
- Multiple authors
- File library
- Extensible documents without coding
As a result I am constantly looking into the discussions on various topics related to CMS design, and came across these that I wanted to keep handy. Thus, this blog entry…
- Proposed Database Schema Changes – From Meta; discussion about Wikimedia projects
- Talk-Proposed Database Schema Changes – From Meta; discussion about Wikimedia projects
- Proposed Database Schema Changes-October 2004 – From Meta; discussion about Wikimedia projects
- Talk-Proposed Database Schema Changes-October 2004 – From Meta; discussion about Wikimedia projects
- Proposed table restructuring – the Wikitech-l mailing list.
- Database shema – let’s start the fun – ditto