David Doran Media

What's Under The Hood?

In keeping with most of the super-hip Web 2.0 websites nowadays my footer has a "Powered By" link but instead of some huge CMS (there are good ones, and bloated ones) I decided to just put together my own simple system which allows me to use PHP or whatever code I want on each page but not have to touch any presentation code.

Credits:

For the code highlighting on the site I have used the great GeSHI library.
I have used a few icons from the amazing FAM FAM FAM Silk collection.

The only other thing that it implements other than a simple template wrapper is of course a fast little cache system to make the site zippy fast (hopefully).

If you are looking into writing your own simple (or complex) CMS then here's the list of things you want:

PHP (The base)
Apache Rewrite (To make nice URLs)
A theory of how it works. (That's where you'll have to figure it out)