Site News A few months ago we mentioned in passing that we were evaluating a new content management system to replace our in-house bodge-job. More than 30 companies contacted us with a view to pitching. Thanks guys, but we have made our CMS decision. Step forward Bricolage.

It's powerful, it's flexible, it's a perfect fit for the content we currently handle and the kind of content we want to handle in the future. As a bonus, Bricolage is open source, which we like. It means that the conversion and installation costs are far more realistic than some of the more proprietary, functionally equivalent rivals.

Bricolage is a fully functional, open-source content management and publishing system built in Perl using HTML::Mason and Apache/mod_perl. Bricolage uses the PostgreSQL relational database to store content.

To find out more about the software go here (http://theregister.co.uk/pz/?bricolage), or check out Kineticode (http://theregister.co.uk/pz/?kineticode), home of David Wheeler, Bric's lead developer, who is guiding our Bric project.

You can read a review of Bricolage here (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,652977,00.asp): We'll knock together some kind of case study as we go live. ®

Update — September 2005

In the end, we decided to use our own system instead of Bricolage. See this page (http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/about/website/) for information on how the site works.