I was thinking of how to setup a simple static blog without the baggage of a full-blow framework. Of course, I'd be re-inventing the wheel, but at least it'll make sense to me, personally.

What I came up with:

* Each page gets its own folder.

* An optional METADATA file in each folder has stuff like the type of the page (blog post, photo gallery, code listing).

* The index file can be in Markdown or rST or something. I'd just branch to a different parser based on the file name suffix.

This is simple and lets me evolve the blog over time.

For a personal blog, an ideal mix might be just branching to a different HTML converter based on the