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Due to frustrations with bloat in other CMS applications (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc). I wrote my own on top of CakePHP, Prototype.js and 960.css. It powers this site. Fork it on Github.

This is the 3rd CMS I've attempted to write. Each time I've got frustrated with the bloat or inflexibility of what I'm currently using and decide to reinvent the wheel. The previous two occasions I half built something bloated and inflexible, realised why the design choices of the CMS that had previously frustrated me had been made, gave up, then tried a new open source CMS.

My latest attempt is very thin layer largely atop raw html. I decided to use CakePHP to handle the ORM, CRUD, Routing, Authentication etc. Prototype.js and 960.css for browser compatibility and a clean UI.

Due to the choice of frameworks the business logic and page layouts fit into a couple of hundred lines of PHP. As is often the case in coding -- less is more. Writing a little bit of code is often much harder than writing a lot.