Mutant, in my attempt to be witty, I did neglect to clarify I'm writing a CMS that doesn't suck for my needs. Thanks for pointing that out. I hope that when I'm finished it will meet the needs of others also.

I agree that databases are useful if not a necessity for extremely large sites or high traffic sites. My CMS will be targeted more at small sites like personal sites and church sites. It will be designed to be extremely easy to install and use. I want it to be easily intallable on an existing site without having to rework the entire site to fit into some database.

I would like the entire CMS to exist of a single Perl script and installation would only consist of uploading and chmodding the file.

jZed, my first planning stage is just to write and collect as many frustrations about CMS that I can. Then I will boil them down to a few I really want to address. At that point, I will decide how to better implement a CMS without that.

As for a replacement for meta-data and storing content in a database, the system should be able to glean that information from the HTML files themself. I understand this would probably not work efficiently for an extremely large site, but it would be great for smaller sites and save on storage space. I don't want to use templates because that would make it difficult to use the system with an existing site. I still need to think of a better way to implement a consistent look with little effort.

In reply to Re^2: A CMS That Doesn't Suck by goober99
in thread A CMS That Doesn't Suck by goober99

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