Please suggest a CMS for this particular situation

Ok so on my news site I want to add a sort of a knowledge base section. I have pretty much whole books of content. I am trying to figure out how to best publish this mass of content both in terms of SEO and also push it through some sort of CMS where I can change the template if I want to put the ads in different positions and whatnot.

Any ideas or suggestions?

 

wiki was the the first thing i though of, but i couldnt dig up an example where they have ads in it and am not sure how custimizable the template is and if I can edit it easily .


gonna take a look at opensourcecms .com immediately

 

You can also check one of the scripts available here
www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/FAQ_and_Knowledgebase/index.html

 

So far i got DokuWiki as an option.

On the plus side its a well supported project with lots of documentation and extensions.

On the minus side it's not database driven and I'm not sure whats the maximum number of pages it can handle. The URLs even with a clean rewrite are pretty ugly. And I am not sure how easy the template can be moded for ads.

This is a pain in the ass

 

I believe there is a misconception when it comes to wiki software. Wikis are not exactly knowledge bases but collaborative projects focusing on whatever, including knowlege sources.

 

Oh yeah i know they are really meant as a tool for collaboration.

But if it can serve my purpose why not use them.

I have book-like groups of contents, with chapters and photos. I need to publish it in a organized way while observing common SEO principals and ad placement.

 

There's always wordpress which is very flexible if you dig into it a little.
It's great for SEO, well supported and free

 

snews might be helpful find it at solucija.com

 

I've looked at many types of CMS packages, and while my current project currently calls for something that is more flexible than Wordpress, my general advice to everyone is to first check out Wordpress, and see if it adequately services your project. Wordpress is relatively simple, stable, secure, and has good support.

From your description, I think that it is possible for you to publish your book with Wordpress, as long as you do not need something like indexing.

Here is an example book theme for Wordpress. Categories would be renamed chapters. It is a rather simple, straightforward solution.

Rich

 

wordpress is great cms

 

As far as I know Word Press is a blogging system, not properly a CMS.

However it doesn't really care, the best CMS is at the very end whatever script that serves your purpose, whether a Wiki or a Blog

 

Let's just say that Wordpress is a CMS that allows someone to easily implement a blog, but can also be used for other applications depending upon what needs to be done - e.g. a newspaper/magazine, etc.

Each of the CMSs out there are more or less suitable for applications, depending upon the application requirement and the tools and ready-made modules that each CMS has to offer. There is no bright line that separates any of the CMS which is why requirement specification is all important when looking for a CMS.

Rich

 

Yeah I thought about Wordpress as well. I guess I would have to have a different installation for each one of the books, but thats not a biggie.

Been a while since I played with wordpress though, is there a setting where I can tell it to post in non chronological order, or would I just have to publish the text starting with the last chapter first?

I guess one problem could be that some chapters could be too long for a single post, but i guess i could break them up easy enough.

 

Hi,

There may be a plugin that allows you to specify the order of the posts. Here is some documentation that shows how to modify the sort order by modifying the get_posts command in the php file.

Rich