Which Site Builder?
I am investigating the various “Site Builder” technologies offered on the web these days.
My reason for looking into this is the need to have a “central” way to create or edit web pages.
The areas I need filled include:
- ease of use for beginners.
- Scalabity or the ability to port to another product as the end user outgrows.
- XML should make this need easy enough.
- PHP ability
- I should be able to expand functionality by adding PHP modules as needed.
- MySQL ability
- Flat files will work for small sites and it has its place. I prefer using MySQL database for lists.
- Security
- I would like to see a system where authentication is passed from the software to htaccess in order to upload–write to directory. This would be allow 622 settings on all directories.
- Image and file upload both simple and more compex
- Just a simple upload button is a good feature for NOOB
- The ability to create subdirectories in order to organize or categorize is good for a more advanced user who needs to categorize.
- The ability to use Cascading Style Sheets is important to me.
- The ability to add templates. Either my own or purchased ones.
- Editors are all pretty similar. This is actually the least of my concerns.