Software help...

Adjusted points to 300

There are some commercial solutions you can try:

You can try WebSiteNOW for free at, this runs on lots of different types of platforms, including GNU/Linux, and is used by big sites:

http://download2.websitenow.com/mail/mailing.cgi

Here is a good link with a whole bunch of links to
companies, some which offer user website creation software.

http://ipw.internet.com/site_management/publishing/index.html

Here is a commercial solution called Site Studio written in java, but they allow you to look at their source code:

http://www.psoft.net

Finally, here is something written in Perl, and it is under the GPL License,  it's not fancy, but it may provide you the code you need to make something really nice since it has the basic stuff needed to build on.  And ofcourse, you could help with this project by contributing code.

http://listes.cru.fr/rs/fd/

Selena Sol is still looking for someone to write what you are looking for for the webware suite (Open Source).

http://www.extropia.com/ExtropiaObjects/  (look at the bottom of this link).


If this  coment was the answer you are looking for tell me and I'll make it into an answer.

freesource...

I have found what I am looking for already...  not perfect but really close and relatively inexpensive...

If you like the link is:

http://solutionscripts.com/vault/index.shtml

But...  You still answered with some pretty good sites...  please submit answer and I will give you the 300 points...

Thanks so much...

Thanks again freesource...  have a great Y2K...