Forum OpenACS CMS: Re: Website builder website

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Posted by Dave Bauer on
Possibly dotcommunity (a configuration of OpenACS) http://dotcommunity.org/
can do what you want. It's designed to setup many small websites. You can use host-node mapping to map a URL to a particular community subsite.
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Posted by J123 C on
Hi Dave,

Thanks, I played around with dotcommunity there, it looks very close to what I'm hoping to do, in structure.

I really like the way it presents standard pages that can be included, exactly the type of thing I'm hoping to do, makes it very easy to use in a standard way.

I wonder what OpenACS (or dotcommunity) is like for extending something like that to do the following:
1. use very glossy layouts (is Flash layouts possible?)
2. the user can choose from a selection of layouts
3. can plug in a more sophisticated gallery/other tools
that the user can drop in to their site

These would be nice to know before I jump in and find out its too hard after a few days of trying. Are these things I can easily plug in or develop myself? Because other than these three requirements, this does look very close to what I'm looking to set up. If I can extend this to include them, its perfect.

Thanks for answering, I appreciate the response.