The simplest Content Management System is you.
careTaker
is a to-the-point, simplest of them all, site management system that focuses on keeping the environment sane while you do the managing.
It will take care of:
- Templating: You deliver the template in HTML format, careTaker will insert content and menus to assigend positions.
- File management: Images and multimedia multimedia can be organised via web-based interface, optionally FTP.
- Caching of pages: The templating system will cache its results on disc for quicker access.
- Page structure: The created content is saved in a database in a folder-like hierarchy. The careTaker will work best with mod_rewrite (or a similar solution) to serve the pages in form of domain.tld/path/to/page/page.htm
- Menu structure: You can create an arbitrary amount of menus for the template and assign pages for them using a drag and drop interface.
- Linking consistency: If a name (or a path) of a page or a file is changed, careTaker will rebuild the pages that link to that item.
- Editing content: Content can be edited either with tinyMCE (in WYSIWYG mode) or with EditArea (in source code mode).
See my wishlist for a rambling on features.
The catch
is that you really have to manage your content yourself! There are no forum-, blog-, news-, gallery-, or other kind of plugins that will ease your work. You get a template and get to write your own HTML. Yay!
Why
would I want this?
If you are in a need to put a bunch of "static" web pages online, but hate the idea of re-doing them all when ever you need a small change in design, if you want to have complete control over your content and don't mind missing the dynamic content or if you simply want something simple for a change, then you don't even need to ask.
You have have found your Content Management System.
The status of the project
is in pre-alpha.
(meaning: we are working on it, but there are no public releases yet)
Screenshots
...are not definitive yet. But here are a few sneak previews from our working draft:
