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How I Spend My Days

Idabashi

[Forgive the geekness of this, but Ms. Write Again Soon complained that she can't get a good picture of how I am spending my days. So...]

I spent yesterday trying to figure out how to customize Wordpress or MT some other blog engine to do what I wanted for my client's new super-simple web-site. I just want them to be able to edit the text of the files without going into the html, and to be able to add a simple "news" update without having to worry about ping and comments and trackbacks and blah blag blah. In the end I decided to just re-invent the wheel and make my own simple content management system (based on some old code I have laying around). Its not that I couldn't make Wordpress or MT do what I wanted, but it would have taken me almost as much time, and teaching the client how to use the bloated control panel would have been hell. Is there any content management system out there that only has three buttons - to create, save, and edit? If so, please let me know.

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I' trying to do the exact EXACT E-X-A-C-T same thing this week, with the added fun that the most important thing that needs to be updated is an event calendar in Japanese and English.

Wow. I had no idea your days were filled with such exciting drama. How do you manage it?

Please feel free to embellish with fictitious details next time. Something, perhaps, including a daring rescue of a bird stuck in a tangle of computer wire.

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