Getting used to a flat-file CMS take some uphill learning. There's so much to learn. PHP, CSS, Templates, Twig, and of course Grav's rather off-tempo way of doing things.

I played with a very unusual content management system many years ago, I can't remember its name, where everything was viewed as an object. You created objects and types, and put methods on the types, then creating hierarchies of objects. It was very strange, but the way Grav does things takes me right back to that (failed) attempt to use something unusual to get a working CMS going.

Well, I've gone through my image library and selected a few to upload into the galleries. I made a little utility to make the meta-data easier to generate too (which I've put in the project page). I've also got the Wiki online and started a page on it to see how easy it is.

I selected DokuWiki after trying MediaWiki. I like MediaWiki, but it just seemed to cumbersome. The template was hard to change, and the amount of Wiki stuff around everything just made it a cluttered experience. DokuWiki's not much better, but it was a lot less faff to get up and running. I probably won't generate too much content, so Doku should work nicely.

I really wanted to use a flat-file Wiki as well, but other than just creating something using PHP in Grav, there wasn't much else around. At some point I might make myself a nice "Blogwriter" front end for Grav, a little C# app you can just open, and splat out a blog, and it'll FTP it into Grav for me, so I can write blogs without logging into the front end like I had to to write this.

I think I'm getting close to being able to make this site public. I just need to tidy up a few more projects and maybe consider some articles to put up on here. I was thinking about putting some stories / fiction up here too, lord knows I've written enough little stories, but I generally just delete them.. Maybe I should put them on here..... Food for thought.