Keep it Simple
Have you ever had the need to produce a web site that needed dynamic CMS features and capabilities but felt that using one of the usual suspects (Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, etc.) was the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to kill a fly?
That's certainly the feeling I had when finally getting around to refactoring a small site of mine that has been on the Internet since 1997. There had been numerous updates and tweaks made to the site over the years, but it was still based on static html pages and a bunch of customized (and poorly organized) javascripts. Adding or modifying content was a manual process.
I had almost talked myself into using Wordpress....
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About this CMS Enthusiast
Harry has been knocking around the IT industry since the days of punched cards and magnetic tapes. He has spent most of his career as a network engineer; however, he has also dabbled in software development, and, as a result is quite adept at development in a number of obsolete programming languages.
In the CMS world, he is currently an equal opportunity user of Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress. In the real world, he lives with his wife and two terrible terriers about 20 miles west of Washington, DC.
Harry is known on Twitter as @harryb_hrpr and also maintains a personal web site at www.hrpr.com.
