I am frustrated with the Content Management Systems I've tried to use on my personal websites. I am now attempting to write my own CMS in Perl. It is in the very early stages of planning, but I've started a blogspot journal following the progress: A CMS That Doesn't Suck In my initial post, I wrote witty statements that I thought should characterize a CMS that doesn't suck. Here are a few:

• Content management should be slim and sexy—just like you.
• Your CMS should be able to run a script written in any language without you having to convert it to some kind of plug-in.
• Content management is useless if you have to recreate your website to use it. Your CMS should be able to manage your current website as-is.

Visit my journal to read the rest of them.

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