For Blog Sake

[crack_ho]

How should I structure a very simple blog type web page?
I am not keen on using a framework as it is going to very simple. There will be no online editing I just want to put up another entry every month or so by deploying a new xml file.

I want to render an html page with multiple 'blog' entires that will have a date, title and body.
I was thinking of defining the entries in an XML document. However what can I do about paragraph breaks and font formatting in the body text?
Should I just reference another html file for each 'blog' entry or is there a sexy way to do this with xsl or something else?


I guess what I am really asking for is how to structure a mini cms.

[DimPrawn]

Can't you just publish your articles as RSS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)


you can embed your HTML or XHTML content using a CDATA section

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs..._HTML_Contents

Then any online RSS reader or RSS compatible aggregator website becomes your blog.

[NickFitz]

How should I structure a very simple blog type web page?

I guess what I am really asking for is how to structure a mini cms.

Just use WordPress or some other free blogging tool that will run on any virtual server account with PHP. No point re-inventing that particular wheel.

If you really want to write a mini-CMS I can recommend the Django framework, assuming you can find a host that supports it (quite a few do nowadays) - once you're up to speed on Python programming you can sling a blog engine together in an afternoon, complete with full-blown admin interface. In fact, most (if not all) of the admin interface is automatically generated by the framework from your model definitions.