which solution do you suggest?

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 8, 2012 at 02:35 PM

Funnily enough, I’m tempted to recommend that you take a good look at WYSIWYG web editors; some of them (e.g. WYSIWYG Web Editor) handle all the media and pages in a single large file, and include search and replace functionality. But you wouldn’t be using them optimally, as it were!

It sounds as if a better solution might be to use a web server system (just for your own use, not necessarily anybody else’s). There are quite a few that cost very little or nothing and can support lots of different types of files, input etc. Good examples include e.g. Kerio Workspace (free Starter edition), Atlassian Confluence ($10), TikiWiki (Open Source), Plone (Open Source) and Microsoft SharePoint (not free!!!).

There’s no reason why you couldn’t run these locally, on your laptop/desktop - assuming, of course, it’s fairly powerful. The other advantage you may eventually come to appreciate is the flexibility - you can upload/download files or pages (some of them allow you to output pages in e.g. PDF format), you can access the server from anywhere (assuming some competence with firewall settings), you can run the server in a virtual machine (which can then be moved around very easily from one machine to another, or even from one OS to another - there are plenty of free cross-platform VM apps). All the above-mentioned servers full-index their own pages and any attached files (in the main popular formats); some of them have very sophisticated search functions. And a server will take all the data you can possibly throw at it.

Just a rather lateral thought!

Cheers,
Bill