Well, good documentation is a must. If I have to figure everything out by trial, error and newsgroup searches, I might as well start writing my own.
Templating is the most important feature: Separate content from presentation so that when the university decides to update its style, the pages update with minimal effort.
Page trees and navigation: I want the system to automatically generate navigation panes with links to documents "beneath" the current one. Essentially something to help us see with a glance what categories there are, what pages are beneath all, and makes sure that they have respective links. (So the above really applies both to user navigation and site administration.)
Some form of a news system that lets us post announcements which then automatically age out.
Finally, the ability of giving a fairly simple interface for non-technical staff to add articles would be swell.
If it had some form of gallery or media file management that'd be even better.
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Date: 2004-12-17 04:33 am (UTC)Templating is the most important feature: Separate content from presentation so that when the university decides to update its style, the pages update with minimal effort.
Page trees and navigation: I want the system to automatically generate navigation panes with links to documents "beneath" the current one. Essentially something to help us see with a glance what categories there are, what pages are beneath all, and makes sure that they have respective links. (So the above really applies both to user navigation and site administration.)
Some form of a news system that lets us post announcements which then automatically age out.
Finally, the ability of giving a fairly simple interface for non-technical staff to add articles would be swell.
If it had some form of gallery or media file management that'd be even better.