The other easy part was the markup. Just take your existing HTML page, add some for loops around bits of it and insert placeholders. 14 year old me found it ver

The other easy part was the markup. Just take your existing HTML page, add some for loops around bits of it and insert placeholders. 14 year old me found it very easy to turn my static HTML (which I was copying and pasting and changing for each article) into a dynamic page. Of course it had tons of issues (GET and POST variables turning into globals, SQL injection etc.) but the barrier to entry was very low.