Questions about CMSs

Hi, I'm new to CMSs and developing tools like that, i was wondering if anyone could answer any of my questions below.


1. How much is a custom CMS worth? (in your opinion)

2. Can Joloma or any of those larger CMSs be sized down to fit into your design (like how cutenews works)

3. Do you know any CMS's that are small like cutenews except use MySQL.

4. Can you make a custom CMS?

This is what i how i want my CMS to work.

Someone clicks the articles link in my navigation and they see..

Categories : Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4

Then they click a category and they see...

Catagory Name: Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4 Article 5

1. Depends
2. Yes
3. Yes, somewhat (Wordpress)
4. Yes

Urm, Im not going to breakdown my answer to each of your points (sorry!). What I am going to say is that there are a massive range of CMS system available to you and each will depend on the project in hand.

Look at CMSMatrix - that gives a pretty decent run down.

I personally use Movable Type for most of my CMS needs as, although its a little clunky to get setup, I now and understand how to us it. Vital with CMSs!

does anyone think they can make a cms like i explained in My post above?

My answers are the same as AndrewR's:

1. Price depends on the requirements.
2. Yes you can scale the weighty CMS's down, but the backend will still be hefty.
3. Yes, Wordpress is an excellent lightweight CMS.
4. Yes.

To your last question, thats simple to do in Wordpress.