Making a Customized CMS

[blackstrider]

Has anybody here actually made or has participated in making a complete and fully specialized cms for a particular website? If yes, then can you give the type, scope, features, etc and rough idea on how long does it actually take to make a decent one? I wanted to know if I'm doing it right since it's been almost 2 years from the time I've decided to make one with just a little knowledge about php. So far I've only managed to make the half of it. I feel like I'm alone.

[Gaijin]

Well it can take from 2 weeks to more years, depends on your PHP skill.
Features like (ofcourse) Content Management, Navigation Builder, Premission Management, User Authorizing, Statistics and the rest of features is up to you.

[Peter L]

The forum se7ensins.com is going through some major changes right now and a CMS is one of them. They have man coders, but you can message "Nerve" on there for some pointers.

[blackstrider]

Thanks for your replies. I just need to know some professional views about making a cms for an online product catalog which covers user management (different levels/privileges), product management (w/ individual photo gallery & tabbed infos), template system, and flexibility to add widgets/modules. The frontend interaction is on the fly using AJAX and DHTML techniques for loading the page and links which are also an SEO friendly. On the average, this really a worth a year or more in development? And what are the possible or inevitable flaws to this?

I'll try to upload a sample when the host's problem is fixed.