Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Gevik Babakhani" <gevik(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Subject: Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.
Date: 2005-06-08 16:37:00
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7621@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > From our point of view, we will also be interested in
> maintenance of
> > the site - how do we add/remove/edit HTML docs, how do we
> add/remove
> > other docs (PDFs etc) and that sort of thing.
>
> From my perspective, the important thing is to make it easy
> for people to
> contribute *without* coding any HTML or other markup. There
> are quite a
> number of tools that allow people to use WYSWYG editors in content
> management, WebDAV using OpenOffice.org, etc. If you
> require formatted HTML
> and CVS uploads, you won't get any contributions.

Definitly. Though it should be some tool that generates reasonably clean
HTML.

> To that end, there are a number of existing content
> management engines you
> could start with. For one, Gavin Roy of our WWW team is
> building Framewerk,
> a PHP+Postgres easy CMS. I think it would be a *lot* easier
> for you to add
> search functions to his code than to do your own from scratch.

I will scream this until my throat is sore - if at all possible, can we
please at least try to keep things on the same site, and not create yet
another one? Please?

This can all be done that way. I'm unsure wether you can just plug in an
existing CMS, but you can certainly steal code from it and push it into
the framework we have.

//Magnus

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