NAME

Contentment::Manual::Introduction - Introduction to the Contentment content management system.

DESCRIPTION

This documentation is still being established, so it is primarily geared towards developers. Administrators and other users may also find nuggets of useful information.

What is Contentment?

Contentment is a "Content Management System" or CMS. It was originally designed to help maintain knowledge base information related to a systems support site and information related to a course site.

The system is generally intended to be easy to use and easy to code. Optimization and scalability have not been major goals at this point. It provides a fairly straightforward way of creating a web site through file-based pages and adds theming, indexing, dynamic page generation, and format transformation with very little effort.

Why Contentment?

Nothing else I tried worked the way I wanted. I'm picky. So, I reinvented a "better" wheel according to my definition of better. There are lots of systems out there, but I think this one is unique in it's use of Mason and Perl together to create a generic framework. Besides these two components, most of the rest of the system is replacable.

If you have a technical staff site that needs to store documents that are accessible and indexed from the web, I'd say Contentment is very nice. If you need to run a dynamic site for end-users who aren't very knowledgable, it's probably not very nice. I'm hoping to add enough functionality to make the latter case better, but Contentment is still a bit rough so far.

AUTHOR

As of this writing Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp is the only author for this project.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software and it's documentation is the copyright of myself, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp. I am publishing this software under the Artistic License, which is the license Perl is released under. Please read perlartistic for more details.

Copyright 2004 Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp. All Rights Reserved.