Which services are already running?
Some possibilities:
IIS web server
Apache web server
ASP services (you mentioned server-side JavaScript)
PHP
CGI
Perl
Others???

What you can use depends on what you already have.

That said, you can use XML as a hierarchical database structure if you have some reasonable level of server-side code available.  If you can load in an XML library that supports XInclude, then you can even manage it as a relational-hierarchical system (which gets really neat for a simple CMS, especially if you build a really basic XLink setup for the navigation structure)

==Joseph++

P.S. your local-client idea sounds more like a web-design package than a CMS.  Alternatively you could always just setup a local machine with a false DNS to point to itself for the site you're building, run whatever CMS you prefer there, and just do a quick web-crawl of that to get your HTML pages and pipe them up to your real server...

Alan Dayley wrote: 
I am webmaster for a school band web site.  It is a hand-crafted piece of 
beauty I inherited from the previous volunteer webmaster.  It uses HTML 
with a few server side java scrips for header and footer stuff.  It looks 
good but, after almost a year of doing maintainance, I am tired of doing 
HTML by hand for every little change.

The site is hosted on donated server space and donated bandwidth.  The 
donated account they provided does not allow the site to use a DB.  That 
would require the next expensive hosting package.  I'd rather not ask 
them to donate more value if I can help it.  Unfortunately it is a 
Windows host server too so even if they gave us a database, I wouldn't 
know what CMS to use on a Windows web server.

Is there a "CMS" system that will allow me to add new articles, post 
pictures, in short, do basic site updates without adding to the services 
of the web server?  I envision some application or "CMS" running on my 
local machine that generates HTML to then upload to the server.

I have not found such a thing but maybe one of you know of one.

Alan
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