André Wienck wrote:
>
> Depending on size and load of the system in question, this might not
> scale. Especially from the database point of view. It appears that
> netbsd.se contains something which is relatively similar to a web
> forum, a gallery, a blog, and other things, which in turn might contain
> a large amount of entries. SQLite, as its name suggests, is not
> designed for larger databases, so it might not be what is desired.
>
> From the original description it seems too that this contest is not
> about redesigning the entire website, but only the appearance. It seems
> that the idea is to keep all of the «application code» intact while
> changing the style. I might be misinterpreting that one though.
>   
I was just suggesting a CMS, it doesn't have to be joomla, you could use 
Moodle, phpWebsite, or any other system that you want.  They're all 
skinnable as well so you can make the site look like whatever you want.

I understand scalability issues but I doubt the site even gets enough 
hits to really make a dent on the server's CPU.  It doesn't really 
matter what language you use, there's apache modules for php, perl, and 
python so they all run at about the same speed, if the site gets really 
popular then you would need to set up load balancing.

Any way, I'm not a professional designer I was just trying to help.