There's a wide range of commercial and some open source products that claim to solve the publishing problem.
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Allaire ColdFusion

A proprietary language with a limited development model, limited platform choices and a limited community around it. Does this sound limiting?

ArsDigita Community System

Phil Greenspun has spoke extensively but unconvincingly of the virtues of the AOLServer. We don't agree that Tcl is the world's greatest language and Alex seems nice and everything but a good dog doesn't make a good publishing technology.