My two favorite Cms’s are for sure Light and WordPress. I enjoy light because of the ease of integration and the built in functionality. There is one issue I have faced. I have an amazing site I would like to build. Its been a brain child of mine ever since I got into development.  I want to create a myspace type social networking site except have it be a battle of the bands type site. Fans and bands both register and bands have the same options as on a myspace type account and the fans can befriend each other but they can also become fans of bands. There is deeper details then this but this is the generic blue print.

I always seem to run into one issue… there isn’t an open source platform out there with this functionality. Sure, there is elgg and I’ve tried it a little but not wanting to have to hack it I decided on a solution that would take longer but in the end cheaper and more rewarding…. I am creating the cms/social network myself.

I have always done a little php so this wasn’t a huge step but learning to create a full web application is a little rough. I am doing it and going through every tutorial I can get my hands on, to get up to speed.  I can’t even begin to think of the possibilities of building my own social network app. How amazing will it be to just write up some custom code and get a new fuction out of your site?

I will blog about the social network from time to time. Right now i’m starting with a simple cms and hoping to expand on this.Its going to be great and even if i don’t ever get my dream site done I will at least have expanded a ton of knowledge in the process.