[dundee] CMS for documentation?

[James Carter]

Wordpress uses a seperate clunky cms editor off screen, not so good
for documentation and painfully slow requiring mysql.

I would stick with a wiki like you first suggested as I don't
believe they're visually unappealing if you play with the stylesheet.
If you make a nice banner at the top of the page they can look quite nice.

The best I've used are faster and easier to understand than docuwiki
and don't need a database, although dokuwiki is not a bad one as far
as php goes as it doesn't need a database and I actually like databases!
It looks awful so I understand your issue there. 

http://moinmo.in/         python powered, there's a plugin to export 

                          whole wiki as pdf, very few wikis will do this out of the box.

http://www.screwturn.eu   highly recommended functionality written in c#/asp.net
                          generally IIS/windows only but can be got to run on linux/mono
                          but no pdf export unless you wrote one, nice editor.


James




________________________________
From: Christopher Wyllie <cgwyllie at gmail.com>
To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 23:11
Subject: Re: [dundee] CMS for documentation?


Aha!

True enough that. Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered it (doh)!

Cheers,
  Chris


On 5 July 2011 18:20, Huntly Cameron <huntly.cameron at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Chris,
>
>Wordpress with a bunch of plugins will probably do what you need it to do.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Huntly
>
>
>On 05/07/11 16:49, Christopher Wyllie wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone can suggest a tool to manage user
>> documentation online in a nice coherent fashion? I've looked at a lot of
>> wikis and they are functionally very good but (usually) visually
>> appalling. Ideally I'm looking for something that can provide the following:
>>
>>     * Easy to integrate Images and possibly video content
>>     * Source code highlighting for code snippets
>>     * Hierarchical chapters/categories
>>     * Searchable by keyword
>>     * Tables of contents generated for each page based on headings/sub
>>       headings
>>     * Easy to change the theme/default look
>>     * Multiple output formats (HTML, PDF)
>>
>> I've tried setting up dokuwiki but found its themes to be quite messy
>> and broken from version to version.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>   Chris
>>
>>
>>
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