CityDesk: Desktop Content Management: I found a link to this from that last item I posted:
[…] CityDesk is an affordable, full powered content management system (CMS) that you can run on your own computer.
I downloaded the free edition (up to 50 pages), and I can say that it is incredibly easy to use. Very simple, very powerful. It’s a desktop editor, pages are template driven, and it can publish via file copy or FTP. It generates pure HTML, so you can publish to any server.
However, as I discussed in a previous post, this is a closed system — it handles only one object: an “article.” So long as all your content fits in an article format (like a blog), then you’re fine. More than fine, in fact — at $79 for the standard edition it’s a little pricey, but after five minutes I can already see it’d be worth it.
(Something else worth noting — I spent about 10 minutes with the documentation, and I honestly think I know everything there is to know about using the software. Seriously. A tribute to simple design and good technical writing.)
Joel on Software - Friday, August 08, 2003: Joel Spolsky has fessed up to a big, fat loophole in CityDesk pricing. This is a great piece of software, so get it now to get it cheap. "...we promised to upgrade all CityDesk 1.0 Home or Pro Edition users to CityDesk…
Wow.
I'm amazed you don't know about Joel already. www.joelonsoftware.com is a pretty well-known site amongst techies. He's published chunks of his book and a lot of articles on his site which are all well-worth reading.
Nope, never heard of him before finding that link. Somewhere, however, CityDesk rings a bell. I think I did run across that sometime in the past.
He's got a lot to say and more than a few people find him arrogant but what he has to say on usability and UI design is worth listening to, even if you don't necessarily agree with him :-)
He needs an RSS feed. Call me a loser, but I don't want to "visit" sites anymore. Bring the content to me, I say.
