As a wood worker I often build things that make my current set of tools work better. Router that I own Let me make a router table that fits in my workspace and

As a wood worker I often build things that make my current set of tools work better. Router that I own Let me make a router table that fits in my workspace and has the features I need, now the router can be used in other ways. Want to cut circles, make a circle cutter for my router. Dovetails, jig to make that with my router. All of the tools are add on to a pretty basic tool, and they are set up for me. To go back to the static website, I really like the Wiki format (Current favorite is http://pmwiki.org http://pmwiki.org ). I picked it for three reasons 1) It's a very powerful wiki 2) I can convert the site into static pages. This lets me build in the wiki format, then publish out. 3) There is a cookbook (a tool another user wrote) to make PDF. You can select the pages in page order and produce a PDF. To that base I've added my custom items. Pmwiki in it's own right is simple (a router), but allows for cookbooks (custom extensions) that others can add. One of the interesting things is the current lead developer doesn't really add features to the core, they also create cookbooks to add on. And the core is pretty soft, if you don't like the markup, you can change it. A long way to go to say that I can see writing software like the OP article. But if you should look at a core tool and see if you can build around that. @Molf uses hinges as an example. You can do a lot around a stock hinge (paint, bevel the edges, add "hand crafted tool marks", a process that is easier to do than starting from ground zero.