Higher than high-level web frameworks or CMS's?

Question

I'm looking for options that allow very high-level web site development with these special characteristics:

1. not requiring the user to program in a complex programming language
2. not requiring the user to use GUI-like administration areas
3. allow the user to "program" in a lightweight markup language

The last point is not only about look and structure of the output but also about creating simple dynamic output. For example:

• listing pages
• fetching the content of other pages
• doing a site search and displaying its output
• dynamically show or hide parts of the page depending on login status

Of course, I am not expecting a solution that provides the same possibilities like a Ruby, Python or PHP web framework. Rather I am looking for support of the "basics" that are common for web sites.

Until now, I have found only one piece of software that fulfills these requirements but while it's free, it's not open source: BoltWire at http://www.boltwire.com/.

Being open source is required.

Answer 1

Holodeck 2:

- Computer. Create a web site. Add navigation on top. Add personal user areas and authentication. Integrate with the database. Add search and listing pages. Run program.

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If seriously, you need something like SharePoint. From what I've heard, you mostly configure web parts without much of a programming. It's not free though. And many say it's bad.

Answer 2

You may want to consider EditMe.com. (Disclosure - I work there). There is a full framework that uses server-side Javascript to program fairly complex sites in a very lightweight framework. You can learn about the EditMe Javascript API object model and command syntax on the customer support site at http://wiki.editme.com/Development