CMS Storage Systems

Question

How do you prefer to manage the contents of your site ,

XSLT , SQL , Sharepoint or ... or maybe a mixed version ,

For example you have articles , products , blogs

I saw in different codes that every developer used a different mechanism to store their data , What is yours ? what do you prefer in different cases ? what is the reason ?

Maybe I use Databases for all kind of data , if so what will be the weaknesses of doing so ?

With using databases as a whole solution for everything in the site , we can search our data , analyze the data from any point that we want , getting the statistics and any kind of processing through our data will be possible .

I'm not very familiar with sharepoint because I was busy with other technologies , just I had a glance look at it

thanks for your participation

Edited : -------------- I hope more people to come and give their point of views , thanks

Answer 1

I have designed a bespoke CMS system that holds data in a database then 'publishes' it to xml. The XML is then used with xslt templates to display the pages which are then cached for speed.

I'd be interesting to know if anyone else is doing something similar.

Josh