Random Computer Bits

At the moment, I'm currently exploring the concept of minimalism in the design on content management systems. This concept isn't really explored at all because the design of content management systems is generally irrelevant to the user: as long as it works and their site design looks the way they intend it to, they could care less about the working internals of the content management system.

However, I disagree. I think that the way the data is stored should be elegant, and that retrieval should be as fast and use as little server resources as possible. Thus, I'm now currently working on a content management system which employs many of my minimalistic ideals so that the website that's produced is both easy to configure, and has elegant data storage, easily user-editable, as well as serving up pages that are quick to load.

Being minimalistic also has the added advantage of having less susceptibility to bugs: less lines of code generally means less area for problems to exist in.

Let me know what you think. I know that many people can't live without a user login system on their website, and flashy emoticons and the whole works, but on the other hand, surely there must be some people that simply aren't using a content management system because it offers too many features, their hosting doesn't offer the necessary features, or they simply require speed on their site, and a content management system slows the whole thing down too much.

I'm not anywhere near releasing my new CMS yet, but hopefully it's somewhat unique in its abilities and features.