I want to do an experiment. I want to change the focus of my website. patmaddox.com has always been “just a blog.” I’ve used a bunch of different systems over the years - it started off as a Typo blog, and I had brief stints with Mephisto, Radiant, Wordpress, and Jekyll. At the moment it is running a hand-made Seaside app, which I built partly as an exercise in deploying Seaside apps.

I don’t think I need the “power” of any sort of dynamic blogging engine, and I certainly don’t need all of Seaside’s power. What I need is something that will let me capture, develop, and publish my ideas. So I’m going to try something a bit different. I’m going to use a site generator rather than a dynamic blogging engine. I’ll use it to publish a blog, but I want my site to also host more structured content. Life happens chronologically, but I can make my information more meaningful and useful if I spend a bit of time organizing it and keeping it up to date.

My plan is to begin creating skeleton pages for the site. These will be sparse pages that contain some useful bit of information – tools I use, sites I like, random ideas I have, etc. Over time, I’ll build up the content on these pages, and create new pages and link to them.

I’m not going to say what tool I’m using just yet. Maybe you can figure it out from the generated HTML.