I have finally ditched my home grown blog formatter for pyBlosxom, a very simple file based weblog server. It only take me several hours to setup and integrated with my web pages. Customization is fairly easy. I have designed the style to look, well, like the same old home page (pyBlosxom itself does not come with any decent template anyway). So far the only thing new is the calendar on the left. But I plan to add other features in the coming days.

I have downloaded Movable Type for months and never get to set it up. The database and third party library requirement really puts me off. Yet I am able to setup pyBlosxom within hours. I am really please with its light weight design and the text file based repository.

The main motivation for upgrade is the need to add permalink to the entries. I have some successful experimented with pyBlosxom but I still need some more work before publishing them. After all, permalinks means permanent. So I want to get it right.

2004.07.01 [web] - comments (0)