Little Piggy

In short, Christopher Bews made it. My website is at http://www.snowbeat.com if you're interestred at all. Basically having attempted several websites in the past, I just got fed up with existing CMS' not doing what I wanted them to do straight out of the box. Some required heavy modding, some were just impossible to deal with, and there was generally always a "but". So one day I just decided "well to hell with this" and built my own from scratch.

I would like to point out that this was created for myself, my own needs, for my own websites. It wasn't created as a CMS for anyone to understand fully and use with ease, but having said that, I wanted to make something that was quick and easy to use for myself, so there is a good chance it's a great deal easier to use than existing ones.

It's PHP because I found it to be an easy language to understand (I haven't programmed with PHP before and I'm not an actual programmer), and I know it's widely used and generally quite friendly on the server's CPU. MySQL was chosen to store data because it's a free, quick and efficient system that doesn't get 'cluttered' easily. It also happened to make my Skin Pack System possible.

The Skin Pack system was an effort to do something to help out with table-based layouts. While I'm gradually switching over to CSS layout myself, tables still have their uses, but I wanted to provide that layout method with a little of the flexibility that CSS offers, that being the ability to change a whole site design very quickly. There may still be many bugs in the whole thing, but I did have a hand from a friend, Ian Gander, in picking up on bugs while I made it.

So while I am not an actual programmer (I'm more of an unemployed designer/programmer hybrid at times), and this may well show that, there is the possibility that it will suit your needs. Give it a try and find out for yourself. Cheers!

Oh and one other thing. This website was itself built with Little Piggy, although it is only skimming the surface of what can be done.