The old school static pages are a pain and they are ugly. My original site on Geocities in 98. I would put up dated posts occasionally. A new new item meant

The old school static pages are a pain and they are ugly. 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 "archive" was just all the old posts cut and pasted to an archive.html page. Adding a new navigation link meant editing every page. For a while I was using shtml for "header" and "footer" 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.