For quite a while now I’ve been using Blogger as my tool of choice for this blog and for other’s sites. I’ve never been very happy with this choice, as the tool has limited options (no organization by categories, for example) and also restricts the designer’s control over the database. Furthermore, tweaking Blogger to provide more-or-less standards-based code is a fair amount of work.
Yet, none of this has been quite sufficient for me to decide to switch. The one thing I do like about Blogger is the single-page template format. I don’t need to edit a bottom section, navigation include, top matter, and content template to put together a design - I can simply compose the design within my own usual text editor and then stick that into Blogger.
I’m not sure why I’ve been so resistant to multiple-page templates - perhaps I’m just too accustomed to developing in my own way, and identifying what some new CMS has decided to call their various includes is too frustrating! Regardless, this is one of my goals for the next few weeks - learn somebody else’s CMS. It’s about time that I delved into something like WordPress or b2evolution.
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