How to build a system for an editorial team

I'm developing a web portal that mostly works like a newspaper site. In the focus, there are articles, containing text, videos and images. These articles have attachments which shall be presented in a sidebar. These attachments might be the same objects that will be displayed within the body text. I have been thinking a lot about how to create the structure and - and this is a major point - how to enable the editor to edit all this stuff comfortably.

What I evaluated were Django-CMS and feincms as complete systems, and several third-party-modules that do snippets of the work.

Now, I a have solution for inline objects: I forked the inline-module of django-basic-apps which is now able to take additional parameters for the objects to embed. Their parameters are an important thing to e.g. embed "an image with object id x, but max x pixels in size".

What is not solved with my approach is, to generate a sidebar containing a bunch of inline tokens. I could create a custom widget for this, though. A better solution would surely be to ad开发者_StackOverflow社区d a functionaly like somehow attaching generic objects (videos, images...) to an article object.

While my solution is working so far, I'm not sure if there are other ways to solve these common scenario, and I would like to hear some other experiences about this topic, and if there are any other ways you deal with it.

For there does not seem to be a bigger need of a solution for this generic problem, I will use my solution and see whether it proves in practice.

Take a look at Armstrong CMS. It's specifically designed to meet the needs of news organizations. It was developed out of the code that powers The Texas Tribune, a very large Django news site that won the Edward R. Murrow Award for best local news website in 2010.

Armstrong scales very well, is fast and can handle just about any kind of content you want to throw at it.