create my own CMS

I did my primary school’s website with a hierarchical page-based CMS with FCKeditor integration for editing HTML. It came out pretty nice and only took about a week to program. I’d recommend doing this just to sharpen your skills at designing a maintainable, extensible and well-factored web application.

If you do all that, you have a CMS that you’re intimate with, you can customise and extend, and can deploy for any other website you choose to build in the future. Highly recommended.

Once you have a basic CMS life becomes so much easier. You can use it as a basis for most of your websites and simply add/remove functions as you need.