Getting Started

History

Vigilante started out as a custom-built content management system for the webzine Musicwhore.org. Parts of that CMS source code were reused to power other custom-made sites, including the online journal portal Austin Stories and the online registration for JournalCon 2003.

Despite sharing some common functions, each site was built with its own database design, creating redundant code that was difficult to maintain. An improvement made to one site could not easily be made on another.

So Vigilante was started as a way to extract all that common code into a foundation by which other sites may be built, while remaining highly customizable.