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Quite some time ago I decided that I was going to get away from MT for running this blog. It still hasn't happened. At some stage I am going to find time to do something about it. My latest thoughts are drifting back to rolling my own again.

My main site has been running off a home-brew CMS for sometime now, and I'm rather happy with it (not that it can't be improved upon). I think that using some of the concepts from it as a starting point for blog software might be a good idea.

The basic principle is that it uses static files which are referenced in a database and given one or more categories. If I take this a step further I could assign it two sets of categories: one for the subject matter and one for the type of article (commentary, news, tutorial, et al).

I could continue to keep the main data as static files. The index pages could be dynamically generated and allow filtering to whatever level the visitor wished. For example a visitor could ask to see all tutorials which are in both web and software groups.

Given that all the meta data is stored in a database, it shouldn't be difficult to generate RSS feeds. I could even do a summary feed using the data I already store in the database for populating the description meta tag.

This would also allow me to maintain my comments and news on the blog domain, while keeping the meat on the primary domain.

Posted at November 30, 2004 11:14 PM (TrackBack)