OT: Client-based CMS

[Michael Hipp]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does anyone know of a CMS (content management system) that runs on the
>>client instead of the web host?
>>
>>Apologies if that sounds like a dumb question, but I've been looking at
>>quite a few CMSs but they all seem to run on the host. This has 2
>>distinct drawbacks:
>>
>>1) It requires that you have control over the host (or a very
>>cooperative web host provider).
>>2) It eliminates any possibility of working on content offline.
> 
> 
> Ive not seen any client-based CMS systems (except perhaps very expensive
> software like Vignette). (Ive used a *lot* of CMS packages).
> 
> Ive worked on a few sites that use Mambo. I can run a local copy of Mambo
> on my iBook quite easily (it uses MySQL and PHP), so you can do local
> updates and test before uploading the database and files to the
> production server. This is a possibility perhaps?

Yes. In fact that may be the only possibility given that there may be no such 
thing as a client-based CMS as you said. But I guess that wouldn't be too much 
of a hardship to have to run MySQL and PHP locally (probably tougher in the 
case of my clients that would be using Windows but not insurmountable).

Thanks,
Michael