SPIP

A SPIP is an internet publishing system that comprises a collection of numerous files installed on a website server that lets you do countless automated tasks at once. These tasks include the multi-user management, arranging your article without using HTML and modification of the structure of your website. SPIP helps you to create and update your site using the same computer app that you use to browse the site.

There are numerous content management systems whereby they come with specific feature and particularities. SPIP focus on creating structured magazine websites which include sections and subsections. This allows you to post your articles and news products that can be supplemented with discussion forums.

Features of SPIP

The SPIP used by editors and administrators comes with an intuitive web interface that facilitates the composition and submission of articles and news item. Moreover, it has numerous typographical shortcuts that enable text to be reformatted without using the HTML tags. This helps everyone to easily access the editing task just as simple as writing an email message. For the webmaster, the graphical part and navigation in the website are defined by HTML design templates.

Reasons to use SPIP

SPIP allows you to manage and structure magazine website. This is a site that is mainly designed with articles and news items, interleaved in a hierarchy of segments that are nested one within the other. It allows you to split and distribute three types of tasks within a website’s different distributors. These tasks include the graphic design, the website editorial input via the insertion of news posts and articles and the website editorial management that comprises consolidating sections, authenticating submission of articles.

With the help of the SPIP, the webmaster and all other website contributors are dismissed from numerous tiresome tasks such as web publishing. It also eliminates the need to spend long hours to learn technical skills. 

Cons of using SPIP

In the meantime, the flexibility of SPIP means that the webmaster must understand a couple of basics to have the capability to transform the default layout of different templates. Since the SPIP comes with a complete navigational interface, the content you create for your website will be seen and exposed using default graphical interface. This means that the webmaster can design his or her graphical interface to be used in the content.