“There’s a new content management system for the masses in town, named Movabletype… With Blogger and Greymatter now firmly established as leaders in the weblog CMS stakes, what prompted these two young San Francisco programmers/developers to create yet another one? The short answer is that they wanted more features, the ability to import data from other weblog CMSes, auto-RSS feeds, multiple blogs, and much more. But the long answer is much more interesting and entertaining…” — WriteTheWeb

“Simplicity and rigor are the essential qualities of a durable web namespace: As I was writing last week’s column, I checked my homepage for a reference to an earlier column, but the link was broken. Say what? I soon found, as some of you have also found, that a planned migration of Byte.com (from TechWeb’s content management system to Dr. Dobb’s CMS) had altered the former namespace…”

“It is rare today to build a site without selecting software that allows you to update and manage it regularly. Content management has become a catch-all term to describe software systems that range from short scripts to allow you to add new news or press releases to a single page through to complete publishing environments supporting multiple editors, interlinked document sets and workflow processes.”

“Make no mistake — if you are running a substantive web site without a CMS, you will hit a wall where your eBusiness is no longer sustainable because you can’t update your site reliably or quickly enough. From that point, you will need to tear down almost your entire web infrastructure to put a CMS in its place.”

“Atomz Publish is the most innovative, intuitive, and versatile content management application available for your company’s Web site. With Atomz Publish, Web professionals customize easy-to-use, browser-based interfaces to be used by content editors. These interfaces enable anyone, including non-technical users, to add or modify Web content without any knowledge of HTML.”

“Has your formerly humble Web site morphed into a complex, wide-ranging, text- and graphics-rich portal? Explosive growth in Web content will leave your company in the dust unless you have the right management tools.”

“Organizine is a browser-based tool to create, manage, and publish documents on the web. Organizine was designed to help automate and eliminate much of the drudgery in keeping a frequently updated web site, whether it be a journal, ‘zine, or whatever else your little heart desires. With Organizine you can quickly and easily separate your content (you know, the copy, all those lovely words you write) from the presentation (you know, the way it’s presented in HTML.) This way, it’s super easy to write something new, and have it show up all pretty-like on your website just a few microseconds later.” Read more about it on trenchant.org. Note: Organizine, launched 31 Dec 2000 and linked here 5 Jan 2001, has shut down…

“These documents aim to give enough information about content management for Bell to be able to make a decision on how to incorporate it into its work, both internally and in the services it offers its clients. The first two pages are an overview of tools for building dynamic websites in general, and CMSs in particular. You could skip these and go on to the next page — Bell’s requirements for a CMS as I see them.”

“An overview and evaluation of a number of web scripting tools, including Mason, PHP, ASP/VBScript, ASP/Perl, Cold Fusion, Embperl, JSP, Lasso and Zope. The goal of this document is to provide a basic guide to developers who are trying to decide what scripting solution they should use.”

“At CNET we are often asked, ‘How do you do it?’ In other words, how do the folks who publish CNET.COM create and manage the flow of so much information and still work within the economic realities of the Internet?”

“There is a general agreement that content-based management and publishing is becoming a necessity for today’s Web professionals, but there is not a single, cut-and-dried solution available. There are many products out there; each should: 1) Divide responsibility for content; 2) Structure a workflow for creating, approving, and publishing content; 3) Separate copy from presentation; 4) Avoid duplication of efforts or content by storing all data in a central repository. By paying attention to these fundamentals, you can achieve a high-quality Website that presents correct and useful information.”

“Is your organization ready to cope with the challenge of real-time publishing? Probably not. Even media companies are having a tough time developing the competencies to master the new information metabolism. The problem isn’t just about keeping information current; there are new skills we all need to develop. We need to learn to think the way our customers think about our products and services and to encode all of our descriptive information so that it can be easily and dynamically sifted and sorted to help customers make decisions and solve problems.”

XMLSoftware’s list of content management systems.

“Most good ideas are easy to understand. They frequently are born out of a need, so conceptually they are easy to accept. The tricky part with many good ideas is getting from their conceptual acceptance to practical use. A Content Management System (CMS) is no exception: great idea, easy to understand, tough to do.”

“Ask anyone who works on the editorial or design side of a media Web site what the worst part of their job is. After they exhaust themselves on the number of hours they work and how little their options are now worth, talk often turns to the publishing tools they use to manage their site and how much they hate them.”