You could not use Octopress... Octopress is just a theme and some nice tools for Jekyll, but you can recreate those tools yourself. It also doesn't look horri

You could not use Octopress... Octopress is just a theme and some nice tools for Jekyll, but you can recreate those tools yourself. It also doesn't look horrible in IE7/8, just not fantastic either. Personally, I would (and previously have) just use Jekyll itself and not worry about Octopress. I tried using Octopress, but just got annoyed with it, which caused me to switch away from Jekyll completely, and move to mynt, a simpler blog-aware static-site generator written in python.