It's been about two years (maybe more) since I last worked on simple.  Recently for work I've been investigating several open-source PHP based CMS and it's dawned on me that even though simple isn't necessarily good enough to use for a university website comprised of well over 25,000 pages, it may actually be good enough to release to the public to use as a tool for personal or small business sites.

So I plopped myself down on the couch this St. Patrick's Day and started working away at a few things that have been on my internal "to-do" list for some time.  I'm working on creating some sort of consistent visual identity for simple, and I've completely styled the back-end (whereas before the back-end looked like a completely default page with no font or color settings at all).  As you can probably already tell, the new look will change the name from "Simple" to "simple" ... all lowercase all the time.  It just looks cleaner that way.

Before I make any decisions regarding releasing the code however I'll need to think about the features I want to add and decide if they necessitate any changes to the database.  If I can change the database now, I won't have to worry about database alterations when it's time to start writing in those features.