If you want someone to build you a website, don't let them build you a bespoke CMS to help you manage it. I've fallen prey to this very temptation, although in my defence it was as much an investigation into technology and the structure of my own content as a solution to the problem of managing said content.
Remember in the days before blogs, when we used to have homepages? Well, technically I suppose I still have one, separate from my blog. How retro is that, eh? My online presence is so fragmented (arguably because my offline presence is that of a genre-flitting dilettante who can’t just sit still for five minutes) that the index of www.jpstacey.info is still not my actual blog, even in 2007.
Since listening to Garrett Coakley speak at the first Geek Night on the topic of Drupal, I’ve been sniffing round that open-source CMS. He kindly came to speak to us again, and very inspiring it was too. We’re now having a deeper look at it, seeing what it can do, what are its strengths and weaknesses; that sort of thing.
I’m looking for a simple website management system (not necessarily a CMS, just something that can handle templates and a consistent look and feel) and an even simpler blogging system. The latter would have to be in PHP, but I’m easy either way otherwise.
Does anyone have any recommendations?