I like plain html pages for presentation too, but this writer is making a fundamental mistake. He keeps making it, as he vacillates between solutions. He keeps

I like plain html pages for presentation too, but this writer is making a fundamental mistake. He keeps making it, as he vacillates between solutions. He keeps mixing his data into his presentation of that data. Keep your data however you like, plain text files in a simple directory structure, database, whatever. The important thing is, as much as possible, organize the data in a presentation neutral way. Choose whatever programs you want to present that data, in whatever context. When you eventually tire of some of those solutions, if you've done things right, you will simply discard them and pick new ones to present your data in new ways. As long as he continues to mix his data with it's presentation at the outset, he doesn't have data, he has a website, or a wiki, or whatever, and he'll keep having to solve the same problem.