Listers, While I wait to resolve perl errors on my Jaguar perl 5.6.0, I have a more generic question re content-management.
I want to make a few websites for a few starving artists and galleries starving = zero or tending to zero resources; artists = almost computer illiterates). I have promised them the world in that the websites would be dynamic... visitors would be able to search for artworks based on different criteria, there would be an events calendar, etc. etc. More than anything, once set up, these artists/galleries would be able update the website themselves. After promising all this, I said to myself, "Oops!". Additionally, I have to develop these websites on my iBook, and host them on a cheap, server I am going to buy from eBay and install FreeBSD on it. My assumption is the FreeBSD is gonna be the closest to OS X in its directory layout and tools, and therefore not send me on too much of a loop (while these artists view me as a computer god, I am actually a Unix newbie). Here is my thinking -- I should consider using something like MoveableType or even a wiki to make the websites. That would allow the artists to themselves update the content as desired. I could use something like Mason, but I really don't want to get into mod_perl for now (I know Mason can work without mod_perl, but really likes mod_perl around). I want to have a little a standard deviation as possible from the stock installs... read, Apache 1.3.26 and perl 5.6.0 that comes with OS X. I am not averse to MySQL (I know MySQL quite well) but am not comfortable with PostGres (hence, Bricolage/Mason would not be an easy choice for me). MoveableType is really elegant... could it be configured to create an art gallery website? Wiki is perhaps the most elegant in its simplicity... what do you folks feel about that? Any advice much appreciated on any or all aspects of the above. Puneet.
