In publishing on this site I’ve chopped and changed the software used so many times the data’s now a bit of a mess and many of the links are broken. I started with Blogger, using it to post to this site, moved on to a set of custom PHP scripts, then took up MoveableType, then used a short-lived custom XML publishing tool I built in Delphi, then Wordpress, then Drupal, then Wordpress, then Drupal, then Wordpress and now Drupal again.
I’m happy with CSS, XML and HTML - in Drupal, I don’t want the limitations of the simpler input formats so I switch it all to PHP anyhow. And if everything I write requires me to fill in all the HTML tags, which I don’t mind, why bother with a browser-based WYSIWYG using something clumsy like TinyMCE? And why generate essentially static content dynamically with PHP all the time. I used to sneer at MoveableType, once, for regenerating static pages. I understand that behaviour’s optional, now, now I begin to appreciate it.
Why must the content be dynamic? I can get Google to spider the site and provide me with a search tool. Provided I tag, categorise and date my content properly, why bother with the dynamic aspect?
I think I’m going to strip all this back to bare, static bones and add dynamic elements where I see a real need, or an interest. I’d love to use a standard XML schema, for example, for all my documents.
Just need some time…
