Whatever we use has to be hackable.
The benefit of even a trivial CMS is that we can hack at the content level, not at the infrastructure level.
My thought is that a CMS should be used in a no-brainer way, not in a fancy way. You don't need to be a DB guru to use MySQL, and the same is true of a simple CMS. Just install it and run it; don't get sucked into complicated uses.
Sorry, Murphy was an optimist. I mean hackable at the infrastructure level, because things go wrong there and you have to fend for yourself. Otherwise we could buy at MS and trust in a support contract (and wait by the phone).
No opaque database formats.
Text files are better; Unix philosophy wins.
If you want a "fast and wrong" start,
Worse is better is not fast and wrong. They're totally different things. Have you read http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ?
then let's be
fast and wrong in the right ballpark: content. That requires no code or infrastructure, just a static and trivial website with a weekly review of logs to see what readers are attracted to. Styling unnecessary; navigation minimal.
Navigation, or rather search and multiple indexes, is necessary. Styling should be attractive as you say, but that takes work. Default flat-document text style is not enough.
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