CMS

Having spent the first four years of my post university working life working on other people's/company's Content Management Systems I thought it was about time I wrote my own, if only as a learning exercise.

The system I developed runs on a LAMP stack framework with occasional AJAX / Javascript additions to increase usability.

Features include:

• Seemless integration of adminstration functions and real-world content, no seperate 'administration' page.
• Intuitive page editing system which allows each aspect of the page to be edited individually and in its real context.
• Almost entirely strict HTML standards code.
• Search Engine freindly URLs.
• Built in multi-level user management system.
• Complete seperation of templates and content.
• Easy to use blog/event aggregation.
• Facebook Connect integrated.

I went on to use the CMS in several real world projects (including this site!), but as I said, this was mainly just a learning exercise - one that taught me a huge amount!

I have now stopped work on the system - it's obvious there are already plenty of great open source content management systems out there - no point trying to re-invent the wheel!