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Posted by Graham Rhind
Sep 23, 2019 at 08:53 AM
There’s a part of one of my websites that I would like to move out of my traditional web creation software and into a more content-orientated environment which would allow me to output that data to the web in a structured manner. The data is several thousand web links. I’d like to pick this forum’s members’ brains to hear any ideas on which software to use.
I’ve done this in the past, using:
- TheBrain version 6 (later versions have dropped the ability to output to the web and I’m not holding my breath that version 11 will reverse this). I want to avoid using software which isn’t being actively updated.
- ConnectText - this works well and I have a number of sites produced with it (e.g. https://www.grcdi.nl/gsb/global sourcebook.html and https://www.pidm.net) but again, without active development, I want to avoid investing too much time into it.
- DocxManager - this is a new software, following up on WritingOutliner, so at least I know it’s being actively developed, but I haven’t had a chance yet to test it fully and the output possibilities are currently somewhat limited. As most of you agree, I think it’s wiser to use software according to what it can do now rather than what it might be able to do in the future.
Does anybody have any other ideas? Must be Windows, preferably not cloud based.
Thanks in advance!
Graham
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 23, 2019 at 10:52 AM
Would something like a self-hosted instance of WordPress (or similar CMS) be useful?
Posted by Graham Rhind
Sep 23, 2019 at 11:06 AM
Paul Korm wrote:
Would something like a self-hosted instance of WordPress (or similar
>CMS) be useful?
Thanks Paul. I’ve always skirted around WordPress, probably because it’s an (online only?) website creation system, whereas I already use offline website creation software (Xara Designer Pro). I’m really want the emphasis on the information management part of the process - i.e. software with which to manage information which will output to structured html - rather than the website creation part of the process. So, emphasising content above design.
Maybe I’m wrong about WordPress and need to look at it again ....
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 23, 2019 at 11:21 AM
Graham Rhind wrote:
>Maybe I’m wrong about WordPress and need to look at it again ....
No, you’re not. Wordpress is for design and publishing, no for content management.
Would an information management system like NotecasePro (http://www.notecasepro.com) or Infoqube fit the bill?
Posted by Graham Rhind
Sep 23, 2019 at 11:26 AM
Franz Grieser wrote:
>Would an information management system like NotecasePro
>(http://www.notecasepro.com) or Infoqube fit the bill?
Thanks and noted, Franz - does this just output individual notes to html or can you output a whole file (and automatically create menus, links etc.)? And that also reminds me - I’ve used WhizFolders in the past, to which NotecasePro may be similar - Whizfolders is not being actively developed at the moment, but it’s good to add it to the options list!