Static once again
Content Management Systems just get on my nerves. I once had a job where I had to interact with a very strict CMS and what ended up happening was dreadful. We avoided it at all costs. It was devoid of all creative input, I was a word jokey loading the content into the forms and letting it do 'work'. If your going to have a CMS that strict then make it useable, and let the content creators put the information in themselves. Don't make a web developer do it, because they dont like it.
This weekend I again experimented with Wordpress (yes, it had been long enough since the last time that I had forgotten my hostile feelings toward it). Firstly, it was super easy to use, and had cool functionality like RSS feeds being auto-generated. But it so far removed me from the HTML that I just had to go back to my static site.
If I wanted to simply write about things I wouldn't have my own blog. I would contribute to someone else's blog or even digg. For me a good 3/4's of the fun in all this is actually building my markup and making it super-clean. "But Terril!", you say, "I can't link to individual blog posts!". I realize this and seriously I want to get that functionality working as soon as possible. I'm thinking about maintaining an XML file and parsing it with PHP to display the requested content. Effectively moving my posts to an RSS feed and then aggregating it as I need to. One thing that I wont be doing is maintaining two copies of content.