+This is the Rophako CMS! It's a simple web app framework written in Python that
+supports a web blog, photo albums, and a commenting system. It's open source
+software released under the GNU General Public License version 2. It was
+designed by Noah Petherbridge to power his personal website and blog,
+Kirsle.net, but it's
+also designed to be easily reusable for getting any website up and running
+quickly.
Rophako's primary feature, apart from being a general content
+ management system, is to be a web blog. The blog supports having
+ multiple authors and having multiple avatars (you can upload an
+ avatar for each topic your blog covers, and select the avatar when
+ you post an entry).
+
There's a built-in RSS feed for the blog so your readers can
+ follow it in their RSS readers.
+
Tag your blog posts with a list of categories and enable your
+ readers to use them to read just the posts they're interested in.
+
Blog posts can be commented on by guests on the Internet.
+
Include graphical emoticons in your blog posts!
+
+
+
Photo Albums
+
+
Upload as many pictures as you want to photo albums on your site.
+ The default settings allow for having relatively high-resolution
+ photos (800 pixels wide), and thumbnailing is done automatically.
+
The staff user accounts on your site can pick a photo from the
+ albums to be "their" profile photo, which will be used on their
+ blog posts and comments (if they don't select one of the blog
+ avatars instead).
+
Photos, like blog posts, can be commented on.
+
Drag-and-drop user interface to rearrange your photos and photo
+ albums.
+
+
+
Comments
+
+
Comments can be left by anyone on the Internet. A reverse CAPTCHA
+ is used that stops random spam bots from posting comments.
+
Comments can include graphical emoticons, like blog posts.
+
Commenters can subscribe to a comment thread when they post, so that
+ they'll receive e-mail notifications when somebody else replies to
+ that thread. Unsubscribing is easy, too.
+
If a commenter leaves their e-mail address,
+ Gravatar
+ avatars are used. If they don't have a Gravatar, you can specify
+ the default fall-back avatar to use.
+
+
+
Dual Template System
+
+
When Rophako wants to show the user a page, it first looks in your
+ custom site's template folder before defaulting to its built-in
+ templates.
+
All of Rophako's core features (including this page!) have templates
+ built in. So, you don't need to write any HTML code to get blogs,
+ photo albums and everything else working!
+
If you want to customize Rophako's built-in pages (for example, the
+ blog templates), you can just add files to your custom site's folder
+ with the same file names. Rophako will use your templates instead
+ of its own!