Buggy, but awesome...: yes, gulker.com fans, this is a new home page, running on a new server with a completely new content management system. Bugs are inevitable.. even plentiful. Email if you catch anything, please...
A couple of weeks ago I espoused a theoretical Lightweight Content Management System: www.gulker.com and www.gulker.net are both now being published with a practical implementation of same. In 2 weeks of spare time:14 machines, a multi-thousand-page web site that's been up since early '95, a brand new web site, all with remote management (read:email) tools.
LCMS dictates using flexible, easily changed, inexpensive, off-the-shelf software with the absolute minimum of well-chosen rules and some high-level programming (typically scripts of some sort) to manage content.
What you see on both sites is being produced and managed entirely with Userland's $39 Radio Web publishing system and Mac OS X. Picture management by iPhoto, search engine is Sherlock, both free with the $129 OS. With some rules,a well-crafted server file system and a couple of scripts, this could scale to enterprise level content creation/management...
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