http://nick-dunn.co.uk Nick Dunn Feed en-us Symphony (build 2000) http://nick-dunn.co.uk/entries/the-new-blog-powered-by-symphony/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:42 +0000 http://nick-dunn.co.uk/articles/the-new-blog-powered-by-symphony/ <p>In an effort to rekindle the blogging flame, I made the decision to completely change blogging systems. Move over Wordpress, <a href="http://21degrees.com.au/products/symphony/">Symphony</a> has moved in.</p> <p>Symphony is a CMS framework developed by the Australian development house <a href="http://21degrees.com.au/">21degrees</a>. Out of the box it looks like a blog, but its power lies in the way it allows users to completely define their own data structures. Data is stored in MySQL, but is served as XML to a presentation layer which forms XHTML using XSLT. Very clean, very powerful, and very geeky.</p> <p>The design is half complete, so don&#8217;t go poking around too much. It&#8217;s broken.</p>