Seriously considering writing my own blogging tool as none of the ones that exist meet my stringent requirements:
- Open Source
- Produces only valid XHTML
- .Net – well, not mandatory, but definitely a plus, as far as hammer fulfillment goes.
- Uses CSS for style
- Small and fast
- Can be used from multiple locations to edit the same site
- Only requires an FTP-only site, no server-side scripting required, no PHP, SSI, CGI, etc.
A popular idea lately. ;-) What I want is dynamic page generation, so if I change something in one of my headers, etc., I don’t need to re-generate and re-publish every single page on my site. Since the FTP upload of Radio is a little flaky for me, this is a killer. To add to that, Radio actually re-publishes every page in your site when you add a new article on a new day, so it can re-generate the calendar on each page. Adds to my FTP problem.
I’m ok with server-side scripting (obviously required for the above); I have no problem with having a .NET-enabled server. And I know this will add some CPU usage to the site; but honestly, the busiest radio weblog (safersex.org) gets a few thousand hits a day. Mine gets somewhat less than that. ;-) I think I can spare the CPU cycles.