horstjens

Working self-employed i need a fast and easy-to-manage solution for my business homepage. (I teach game programming to kids, see http://www.spielend-programmieren.at )

Having played around with static html, mediawiki, joomla and other CMS systems i found out that DokuWiki is exactly what i need.

Easy to maintain, easy to update, mountains of plug-ins and themes, easy to backup (plain files, no database) and fast enough for my needs.

The wiki syntax is so easy to understand that i teach it to children (before teaching HTML). And you can include html code into the wiki if necessary.

Nice community, forums, and the main developer Splitbrain to chat in dokuwikis irc channel.

Thanks to the plugins, setting up a multi-lingual site is very easy.

Thanks to the simple user management, i can give each student it's own wiki-namespace (including multilingual namespace!)

Thanks to the very clear (plain file!) internal structure, reorganizing a Dokuwiki is a simple task.

But be warned: Dokuwiki will spoil you ! If you are used to Dokuwiki and have to work with other things like WordPress or RST you will find them ugly and annoying.