To make a general purpose site builder for estate agents, florists, lawyers etc.. is not that difficult. To make a general purpose web application builder is a

To make a general purpose site builder for estate agents, florists, lawyers etc.. is not that difficult. To make a general purpose web application builder is a hard problem. You need to abstract 'a general business' and subclass as you drill down to the various business classes. For example they would all include perhaps an 'accounts' section, but you wouldn't like to have an invoice from the funeral parlour stating: 1 ProductID one body Price $xxxx.xx or even a shopping cart for this matter! :) Even at the template level - and I am sure PG did not have that in mind when he wrote of his idea - this has not been very successful, although PG did quite well with it, at the time :)