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If I made a CMS, would you use it?  

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  1. 1. If I made a CMS, would you use it?

    • I don't use CMS's
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    • If it was good
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    • No, because you made it
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    • No, we don't need another one
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    • No, I like the one I have
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I am almost done with my latest website. I was going to write it in Joomla, but decided against it and wrote my own CMS system for it.

 

It is really good - it uses a mix of flat files and tables, and already has a ton of features. The best thing about it is that it is really light-weight. Right now it is perfect for my website, but I was thinking about cleaning it up and turning it into a full fledged CMS. Does this sound cool, or are there enough CMS'es?

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the problem with CMS's (as thorpe sort of touches on) is they're all overblown and try and be too "one-fits-all". I've not found one CMS that:

- makes complete logical sense to the end user - hiding technical stuff away if needs be, displaying sitemap/tree as expected, etc

- is also easy to customise and adapt. sure, all of them have a handful of plugins, themes, etc, but the API's for many is vast and over complex.

- is also fast

- easily adaptable for non-content driven sites - social network, commerce, etc

 

unless it fits all of the above, i wont look at it for anything other than research purposes. so i'm with teng here for now - i roll my own, and its generally more like a framework with a small CMS element than a fully blown CMS.

Well, I prefer to code all my own stuff, as I like to know exactly what is happening and why it is happening. Although I know that a lot of less experienced people that want their own websites are always on the lookout for good cmses, so there is definitely a market for your cms

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