site creation, blog or html or both

cant decide please advise

[crimsonblack]

In a choice dilemma

I am preparing to create a personal interest site similar to

<snip>

I am thrown up between creating my site completely as a blog and buying software for this

or creating my site completely HTML

Or having a site thats hrml with blog intergrated say for the middle of the homepage to have news updates and such..

now if you notice on both of these sites they have at the top or the left side main menus that break down into sub menus

i.e

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can you do that in a blog?

can you point out any blogs online that are similar examples..

I cant find any examples online of blogs that have similar menu options...

ahh.. so confused... i may end up doing it pure html as i cant figure out this blog stuff..

but then i dont have the chance of being able to have my site visited as often and updated.. plus being able to have easy updating features..

any advice.. if anyone of this makes sense

thanks

[edited by: trillianjedi at 9:55 am (utc) on Dec. 13, 2004]
[edit reason] Please see TOS #13 [/edit]

[crimsonblack]

so if you look athese two site mainly as examples

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an how they have content and menus and titles thats how i want to do it.. but somehow want to be able to blog info up maybe even pull in newsfeeds

Being able to add TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS are important.. what blog software can do that easy?

ah i need some help

[edited by: trillianjedi at 9:56 am (utc) on Dec. 13, 2004]
[edit reason] See above... no URL's please [/edit]

[trillianjedi]

<cough>

Anyone using advanced/easily tailored blogging engines?

CrimsonBlack - please see StickyMail.

TJ

[jhubb]

I'm currently tailoring Wordpress (free! validates XHTML!) to fit my site design. It's PHP-based, and even though I don't know PHP, I am stumbling through it with few problems.

I started by trying to fit my design into their page template, but that wasn't going well so I tried the reverse: fitting their PHP tags into my CSS/XHTML site design. Much easier.

The key is to check every change as you make it, so you know immediately where you screwed up!

You can have the wordpress php tags mixed in with html tags on .php pages, so your site can be a mix of the blog and your other html content...

[vkaryl]

Textpattern looks pretty customizable. Haven't started with it yet, so have no experiences to offer....