Content Management Systems

When our institution redesigned its website, they also
changed the uploading
of departmental pages.  Where previously, schools and
departments  
could directly
control their webpages if they wished, now the page updates
are sent through
a gatekeeper.

Primarily, this seems to be because they don't want to see
design changes to
the new layout. It's not the content they are worried about,
it's the format.
I know that a vendor of one CMS system has contacted them,
but it's a rather
expensive system, and I think the cost might have been a
major factor in their
declining to even look at the product.

I would like to encourage them to get a Content Management
System, and I
know there are a large variety of open source and more
traditional (expensive)
solutions.  So... any suggestions on how to encourage this
change?

It feels awkward to suggest a specific package, since we
have no say in the
overall design.  On the other hand, our more general
suggestion to get a
CMS has not been heeded.  I have looked at some of the
materinal on the
open source CMS site, but if you can give me some specific
suggestions
(or "here's  how we did it" success stories) it
would help.

--
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College
O'Malley Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
stacy.pobermanhattan.edu

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