CMSes rock but not everywhere all the time

First IT related post in a while. It is not that I haven’t been immersed as usual. If anything, too immersed. However my main day job has quietened down a bit and I will attempt to post on the technology I have been using lately.

I have often raved about templating in the blog and it still remains an issue for me. Recently, I have been  revamping my own site. Iit has been broken for a few months now, but like the cobbler’s children’s shoes, it has taken a very long time to do any thing about it. For a few weeks there I was playing with using WordPress for the whole site, of which this blog is a just part, but in the end I decided to go with a static site with some php to do the otherwise repetitive bits and some javascript to do the fancy bits. Here’s why.

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