is that you end up with an ever growing number of pages, and you usually want at least 3 different ways of viewing an entry:
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On a "Most recent" page
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On a permanent page of it’s own (so that an item can be linked to directly and will stick around)
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on a monthly archive page, or some other grouping (perhaps by topic/significance etc)
I’m trying to come up with a method that can handle all these options, but that still relies on simple HTML pages only (ie there is NO server side page generation going on). The problem is that as the blog grows, and as you start wanting nice features like auto-updating mini-indexes for recent entries, it gets to the point where a small change can require pretty much every single html page to be regenerated, which is time consuming [especially in the uploading that will need to be done.]
So I guess what I’m griping about is the hassle involved with making a tool that can create consistent well linked content which looks like it’s got a back end, without actually having a back end.
So, is it worth doing? All I know is that everytime I think: "Hey why don’t I look at setting up Movable Type?" I see the requirements and go "blech!" I just don’t want to get involved with server scripts and databases. Just setting up dome formmail stuff was enough of a pain, and even then my scripts were deleted by my overzealous ISP for not being the "approved" versions.