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Looking for article management for IIs server

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by brandondrury, Oct 27, 2005.

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    Hello,

    I'm looking for a SIMPLE content management system or just a basic article management system for an IIs server. My tech chose to go with the IIs server because he preferred to Unix/Linux. It sounded like a great idea, but now I can't find any software that will work.

    It seams to get the SEO friendly URLs a mod_rewrite is required and that is an Apache thing.

    So, are any of you guys have any success with a content management system or article management system for a IIs.

    We require:

    The abiity to add articles and have each article delayed (we don't have the time to update everyday, so we'd like to build up articles and let the site release them one per day.

    The software must be SEO friendly.

    The software must be relatively straight forward. Drupal is out. It's too much work to get the simple functionality we require. ArticleLive was essentially perfect, but it does not support our new server.

    It would be nice of visitors could comment on articles and rate them.

    We require the ability to search the article database and syndicate it an number of ways.

    Thanks
    Brandon
     
    brandondrury, Oct 27, 2005 IP
  2. SEbasic

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    If you have a budget I might be able to help - send me a PM...
     
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    I custom wrote the script for my article site (in my sig). It's in ASP running on Wondows Server 2003 with SQL Server 200 backend.

    Approval articles is a manual process. I did it that way on purpose to cut down on spam.

    When a user subs and article, I send off a confiramtion email. When the authro confirms his or her submission, the article gets flagged for review. I log into an admin backend to see what articles are pending. I manually review each one, make corections, etc then approve. Once I approve, the article goes live on the site.

    I'm using full text indexing with background update, so as soon as an article is added, it's indexed for search.

    About the only thing I don't really like is the javascript form function I use that allows people a WYSIWY get html editor. I've found many users seem to be cutting and pasting from Word, and when they do it carries over all the Word style crap. I have to go into those articles and do some cleanup and that takes a few minutes or more, depending on how long the article was an how much Word crap is in there.

    Site gets 1-3 subs a day and has been live around 3 months. It's doing around 1,000 page views a day.

    If you like it and want customization, or the source code, we can talk.
     
    iShopHQ, Oct 27, 2005 IP