“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.”

“Where should web authoring be done? When should you use a browser/server-based tool and when a client-based tool? …To understand web authoring by regular people, I think it’s helpful to have a taxonomy that distinguishes among the various aspects of the process. I have broken it down into both the elements of web site creation and the stages in the life cycle of sites. Then, using that taxonomy, I look at how various authoring techniques stack up at each stage.”

“Metababy is an experiment in collaboration, a Web site created by its visitors. You’re welcome to post anything you want on Metababy, and anybody else is free to change it. To participate, just navigate to a URL on the site and click the ‘Edit’ button in the lower, right-hand corner. If the page already exists, you can change it. If the page doesn’t exist — if you get a 404 — you can create it.”

For emergencies, I think I could like this: Edit your website anywhere, anytime. “OmniEdit is a free, browser-based web page editor that liberates you from your web development computer. Now you can edit web pages anytime, anywhere in the world: at home, in the office, at Internet cafes, public kiosks — anywhere that you have Internet access. And you do it right in a browser using OmniEdit! Imagine correcting a typo, updating a headline, price or date and even fixing a broken or changed link, on the fly, right in the browser. And you don’t have to configure a single thing. Moreover, it is completely free! Access your existing ftp account with the same level of security as with a normal ftp client and editor. No account information is stored by OmniEdit.”

“For the past 3 years, I’ve had various clients that used Broadvision for their application server. And, in each case, Broadvision was a nightmare to deal with. The people who sell Broadvision know this, so what they do is head straight to the people with money but no tech savvy on the client side, and mesmerize them with tales of ‘One To One Marketing’ and the people with money fork it over without bothering to learn that the system is bloated, slow, and pathetic.”

A “quick-and-dirty” table that outlines the basic requirements of a variety of content management systems — some free, some expensive. Includes a CMS discussion list now.

“Blogger gives you a way to automate (and greatly accelerate) the weblog publishing process without writing any code or worrying about installing any sort of server software or scripts. And yet, it still gives you total control over the look and location of your blog.”

Enhydra is an Open Source Java/XML application server and development environment.

A weblog tool.

“DiaryLand is a place where you can get your own online diary that you can update super-easily just using your web browser!”

A weblog tool.

“Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable components.”

“phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the adminstration of MySQL over the web.”

Another weblog tool.

“With Frontier 6 for Windows and Mac you can build and publish big-content news-oriented sites that are easy to manage, for you, for your writers and designers, flowing stories over the Internet in traditional and new ways.”