“RE: Ugly Secrets of Content Management Systems”

If you want a standard car to drive to the grocery store then you go to a lot and you buy one. If you want to win a race you will at least replace some of the standard parts with others, if not build the whole thing. Notice that there is a continuum here from, for example, adding things to the standard engine, through replacing with another enigne from another manufacturer, to building a custom engine yourself.

This is the way I would like CMS to work, each would be a semi custom solution built from standard components. Yes, no one builds a wheel from scratch (unless for cycling :) anymore, but people do like to be able to replace their current wheels with differnt wheels from other manufactures when they need to or want to.

If you want a standard web site then buy a system and make you site work the way the system supports most easily.

If you want your site to work in a particular way, and you can't find a system that supports that out of the box, then build your own system from standard components.