Architecture of a CMS

I am building a custom Content Management System for my client, using C#2008, ASP.Net technology. I am looking for advice regarding the architecture (application layout, database layout etc) of such a system.

Anyone here have any experience design / developing such a system? Any websites that I can get more information fro开发者_开发问答m?

Any open source CMS out there?

Thanks in advance.

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Any open source CMS out there?

Check out Umbraco, its very good, not suitable for everything (depends on your sites content really) but you get so much for free that it would be silly to not give it a look over, its not a small bedroom hack up job.

Regarding creating your own CMS, I'd probably try to steer you away from it, its not for the faint of heart unless your content demands are very niche. Even then its better to build on top of something else if at all possible.

ASP.net MVC would be worth a look too if you are going down that code your own route, would save you some headaches.

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DotNetNuke is a good open source CMS is specifically for ASP.NET development. Definitely worth a look.

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I've written a blog post about content modeling and data stores for content management systems. I think it could be useful: Blog post: Get more out of your content: content modeling and data stores