So far, textpattern looks like the closest to what I've wanted, though indeed drupal looks more developed and better supported. Textpattern uses textile, a wiki-style editor, that allows you to flip back and forth between wiki-style markup, xhtml, and a preview. It also is a complete content management system, though it is still fairly focussed on blogging rather than the relatively static pages I would be using it to replace.
If only it was a mediawiki-based editor: I know the wikipedia's markup quite well; textile's is another dialect.
In my case very easy onscreen editing is what I need more than anything with some CMS features--i.e. finding pages. I was finding it murder making small changes in things like syllabi: a table in code is a mess, and using a wordprocessor messes up one's hopefully clean html. The wiki-based editor seems to get around that. Tables and lists are very easy to over see and edit, and the translation back into html is very clean.
I hope to have something up in the next week or two to show.
On Mon, 2006-23-10 at 16:38 +0100, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
Not so much for editing personal websites, but a useful tool for (collaboratively) editing teaching materials which could then be ported to a website or printed as a complete book, etc.:
http:/www.courseforge.com
(Thought this might answer a question kind of orthoganal to Dan's original request.)
Cheers,
G