Prospective user question

[gareymills]

I apologize in advance if this has been asked before. I am trying to evaluate Alfresco for use in our organization. We have an established web site with a number of ways to get pages into it. We are satisfied with our presentation, so all we really want is a content repository that has versioning, access control lists and possibly some work flow. Can we do that with Alfresco, specifically, can we put HTML into Alfresco, without having to worry about it being converted to XHTML? Can we export from Alfresco to a functioning website served by Apache?

Any help appreciated;

Garey Mills

[pmonks]

G'day Garey,

Yes you can do exactly what you describe with Alfresco.  In fact I think this is a great first step for bringing an existing static site under management in Alfresco - simply grab the content in it's current state, copy it into Alfresco via CIFS, then configure Alfresco to deploy it to a static docroot.

Once you've got that up and running you can start introducing more advanced features as appropriate - workflow, Web Forms, dynamic runtimes etc.

Cheers,
Peter

[ronnyt]

Do not forget the WCM framework to handle your web site. Might be overkill, though..