One of the topics that I see come up more and more with coders working up a site of their own is content management. While the basics can be quickly mastered, there are much more advanced ways of creating a solid, full-featured CMS - and this new DevShed article seeks to show you how.

Content management systems are becoming very popular, but what if you took it a step further than that? That's exactly what I plan to show you how to do in this series of articles. I'm going to explain how to build a site engine. A site engine is a core code base and database that can run multiple sites that are completely different while all running in unison, using all the same code, yet separate from each other.

The basic idea here is to create a plug-in bases framework that will not only aid in authentication, but also in bending your content to your will. Since this is only the first in the series, they don't get into much code, just the theory behind it. These details will be presented in the next three parts...