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Need solution for automating online newsmagazine... suggestions?

Asked by EmeraldIsleNC in WebApplications, Miscellaneous Web Development, Industry Specific Software

I'm looking for advice on what solutions and/or products are available for automating the process of maintaining an online newsmagazine.

Ideally, here's what we'd need to accomplish:

- Our writers could upload their columns via a web-based form. Content would then wait in a queue until an editor could copy-edit the item, then simply click on "publish" to make the article go live.

- Fixed front page and categories layout so that whenever new items are added, old news items from the front page are automatically shifted off the front page (or down the page, as the case may be) and into an archive based on whatever criteria (subject, author, etc.)

- Potential for subscription-only based content

Right now we have a massive online news magazine that is a beast to maintain, as our archives have gotten so enormous AND the original site was created in Microsoft FrontPage eight years ago!!

I'm using Dreamweaver for our other website projects now, and when we revamp this site, we plan to store the entire old site in an archive folder that will still be accessible to website visitors, but the new site should all be entirely automated with web-based management for writers and editors.

I'm not sure if I should be looking into a particular programming language (which frankly scares me, as I'm a website designer and certainly no programmer!) or if there are any applications currently available that we can install on the server (sort of like you would an online forum or community, but that is geared towards news and features) and then customize to our "brand" and that would be that.

Any ideas would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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