I used to like computers, I remember liking computers, now I just want to give up on the whole thing

[algeh]

Argh. All I ever post here any more is whiny complaints about how the world doesn't work the way I want it to. This is pretty much the state of my life the past few years, so I guess that's not that surprising. So anyway, me whining. Again. Dammit

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[two_star]

Hmm.

On the one hand, I made my static site with html hand coded in emacs, on top of which I used hand coded css, along with a bunch of css snippets and javascript that I found in various places, and when it got complicated enough that I needed to generate the files from templates, I made templates with PHP and used make to build from them. It works for what I want it to do, which is look like a site from 1998 instead of 1994. It's also a somewhat ridiculous way of doing things if you aren't incrementally improving your site starting from what it was in 1994, and it doesn't do anything fancy, and I expect if I tried to make it do anything fancy, I'd end up curled up on the futon and gibbering.

On the other hand, I just used wordpress when I needed a blog. (Well, there have been a couple of plugins and a tiny bit of manual tinkering.) The world is full of wordpress plugins, and you may be able to cobble some together to do what you want. The world is also full of other systems that are not wordpress that I don't know anything about.

Anyway. I suppose I should just wish you good luck with this thing, and not try to be helpful.

[duncanmac]

I forgot to mention that the HTML and CSS I used for the stuff this summer were also hand-coded.

I made templates with PHP and used make to build from them.

That trick (of using Make paired with PHP) is not something I've tried, though I can see that it might work. IMake (used in the X11 project) might go even further, though getting those "cpp" macros running together with PHP might prove awkward.

There also are programming tools such as Cake-PHP, but I have not yet used those.