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I’ve been thinking about trying out a content management system (I mean, other than this WordPress blog!), as I’ve recently been frustrated with keeping some records ‘by hand’, as it were. On the upside, I’ve had some practise with creating HTML pages that I haven’t had for a while. I started out with my (reasonably) trusty text editor, gVim. A hang-over from my previous job as a programmer using vi/vim for a few years… you definitely do get used to that sort of editor! I still get caught out hitting escape, typing letters and such to try to issue ‘commands’, which doesn’t often work out so well in a regular editor!

In any case, I had a rather large document, and it was getting painful. When I decided I wanted to do some formatting with CSS, it seemed clear that using Dreamweaver would be a lot easier… so I’ve been playing with that for a few days. There certainly seem to be quite a  few annoying glitches about it, as an editor, considering how ‘mature’ a product it is (not to mention to price), but I suppose you get that. It has made things a little easier, but doesn’t completely address the issue of collecting information from various sources and trying to document  and present them consistently. Just what a Content Management System should do!

I saw mention of an installer script on my website host for a product called Typo3 and, after having a look at some details on their website started to get a bit excited (carried away,  maybe?) and went to run the autoinstaller on my site… Where is it? The Autoinstaller page lists a whole bunch of things, but not Typo3. Support ticket sent… and soon answered (within minutes!). Apparently Typo3 requires PHP5, and my site is on a cluster running PHP4, but good news is it can be moved. Yay! Might be up to 24 hours downtime, but otherwise not a problem. Yay!

And now… to be ‘quiet’ (stop making changes to the site) so they can move it. Shhhh!

-G.

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