Blog software - more easily customized?

I'm looking for a blog script that can be customized with php includes and css. The more advanced tpl type system I find to be too complicated.

I'd like to find a script where I can just edit "top.html" bottom.html" and the css file.

Anyone know of a script like that?

 

I hate all the blog software, its all too complicated for a simple script. In the end I just coded my own that pulls in a header and footer file like you said.

 

I've found that wordpress is pretty easy to customize. www.wordpress.org

 

Yeh, I may just do that. I'm half way there, as I coded a simple CMS, so I'd just have to change it to blog format...

 

Mine uses phpmyadmin for the backend.

 

So you just admin the blog by modifying the MySQL data in PHPMyAdmin?

 

I've had lots of luck with the Wordpress blog. You can customize the templates that have header and footer, etc., or simply employ a custom template and go from there.

It's way easier than starting from scratch and there are plugins for just about everything.

 

WordPress is very easy to customize. Actually you can work with the more complex set of files, or just use a basic index, header, footer and sidebar setup.

 

Posts are written in Word to make sure they have no mistakes and then cut + pasted into phpmyadmin. Any other changes are easy to make via phpmyadmin as well.

 

WordPress is very customizable. I would recommend it. I would consider it just as much a CMS as I would blog software. Its very flexible and tweakable.