11 December 2009 · content, management, text, web development

Since I moved to Django I've been struggling with the question of how to keep the site's body content up to date. I started out just editing the body pages' HTML, which was stored in the database (crude, but it did allow an earlier transition to Django).

I've since experimented with various mechanisms, including two WYSIWYG editors in the Django admin (not sufficiently expressive) and a full content management system (too cumbersome and tricky to install, though it may become the favored solution eventually). For now I've settled on a scheme that allows me to keep the body page text in the database as either ReStructured Text or raw HTML, but I am sure this is far from the best answer.

So how do you keep your web's textual content up to date without going crazy?