There are many CMS systems out there - both commercial, educational, open source and proprietary.
I would recommend at least to take a glance at the following simple system, however very modular and powerful once you get the idea on how to tweak it.
CMSqlite is based (as the name suggests) on SQLite db.
This database is well known to anyone who is the business of developing IPhone apps and even HTML 5 in some cases.
There are plenty of tools that manage embedded database.
My choice is the SQLite Studio which is the more advanced option I've found so far:
CMSqlite comes with a simple base template to start with:
Somehow it reminds me of the Zen theme to Drupal which marks every element with a CSS class or ID to make it easy to change the styles without modifying the underlying code.
The CMSqlite website on it's own is an example of what you can actually achieve if you use this system:
It is very easy to translate or add new languages, manage the menus, add new PHP written modules such as a shopping cart, or other complex transactions.
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