Use one of the better-supported open-source CMSes for this reason.
General features
Collaborative Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you
setup a "book" and then authorize
other individuals to contribute
content.detailed information
Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable
customizable URLs that are both user
and search engine friendly.
Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide
functionality that extend Drupal
core.detailed information
Online help - Like many Open Source projects, we can't say that our
online help is perfect but have built
a robust online help system built into
the core help text. Available to you
on your own site.detailed information
Open source - The source code of Drupal is freely available under the
terms of the GNU General Public
License 2 (GPL). Unlike proprietary
blogging or content management
systems, Drupal's feature set is fully
available to extend or customize as
needed.detailed information
Personalization - A robust personalization environment is at the
core of Drupal. Both the content and
the presentation can be individualized
based on user-defined preferences.
Role based permission system - Drupal administrators don't have to
tediously setup permissions for each
user. Instead, they assign permissions
to roles and then group like users
into a role group.screenshot .
detailed information
Searching - All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all
times if you take advantage of the
built in search module.
User management
User authentication - Users can register and authenticate locally or
using an external authentication
source like Jabber, Blogger,
LiveJournal or another Drupal website.
For use on an intranet, Drupal can
integrate with an LDAP server.detailed
information
Content management
Polls - Drupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or
users to create polls and show them on
various pages.detailed information
Templating - Drupal's theme system separates content from presentation
allowing you to control the look and
feel of your Drupal site. Templates
are created from standard HTML and PHP
coding meaning that you don't have to
learn a proprietary templating
language.detailed information
Threaded comments - Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment
model for enabling discussion on
published content. Comments are
hierarchical as in a newsgroup or
forum.detailed information
Version control - Drupal's version control system tracks the details of
content updates including who changed
it, what was changed, the date and
time of changes made to your content
and more. Version control features
provide an option to keep a comment
log and enables you to roll-back
content to an earlier
version.screenshot
Blogging
Blogger API support - The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be
updated by many different tools. This
includes non-web browser based tools
that provide a richer editing
environment.detailed information
Content syndication - Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS
format for others to gather. This lets
anyone with a News Aggregator browse
your Drupal sites feeds.detailed
information
News aggregator - Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for
reading and blogging news from other
sites. The News Aggregator caches
articles to your MySQL database and
its caching time is user
configurable.detailed information
Permalinks - All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or
"perma link" associated with it so
people can link to it freely without
fear of broken links.
Platform
Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support
- Drupal was designed from the start to be multi-platform. Not only can you
use it with either Apache or Microsoft
IIS but we also have Drupal running on
Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac
OS X platforms.detailed information
Database independence - While many of our users run Drupal with MySQL, we
knew that MySQL wasn't the solution
for everyone. Drupal is built on top
of a database abstraction layer that
enables you to use Drupal with MySQL
and PostgreSQL. Other SQL databases
can be supported by writing a
supporting database backend containing
fourteen functions and creating a
matching SQL database scheme.detailed
information
Multi-language - Drupal is designed to meet the requirements of
an international audience and provides
a full framework to create a
multi-lingual website, blog, content
management system or community
application. All text can be
translated using a graphical user
interface, by importing existing
translations, or by integrating with
other translation tools such as the
GNU gettext.detailed information
Administration and analysis
Analysis, Tracking and Statistics - Drupal can print browser-based reports with information about
referrals, content popularity and how
visitors navigate your site.screenshot
. detailed information
Logging and Reporting - All important activities and system events
are captured in an event log to be
reviewed by an administrator at a
later time.screenshot . detailed
information
Web based administration - Drupal can be administered entirely using a
web browser, making it possible to
access it from around the world and
requires no additional software to be
installed on your computer.screenshot
Community features
Discussion forums - Full discussion forum features are built
into Drupal to create lively, dynamic
community sites.detailed information
Performance and scalability
Caching - The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing
performance and reducing the server's
load. Caching be tuned in real time
and many high-traffic sites have
performed very well under
load.detailed information
