The old school static pages are a pain and they are ugly.<p>My original site on Geocities in 98.  I would put up dated posts occasionally.  A new new item meant editing the index.html and my &quot;archive&quot; was just all the old posts cut and pasted to an archive.html page.  Adding a new navigation link meant editing every page.<p>For a while I was using shtml for &quot;header&quot; and &quot;footer&quot; files which could be tacked on to individual entry files vut it was still a pain to use.  Blog platforms and other CMS systems with editors that keep the content sepersted from the design are definitely better.