Two great articles out this week about managing your entire site through MT. One article from Matt Haughey, and another one from Brad Choate.

Matt’s article discusses a few approaches to using MT(Movable Type) to manage an entire site’s content, one using index templates to generate static content, and (even more interestingly) using MT(Movable Type) as a a lightweight database. As long as you can capture a page’s data in six data columns, you’re all set.

Brad’s solution is a little more complex, and involves using categories to determine file structure, but seems to be worth the effort, because each page corresponds to a entry in MT(Movable Type), which means that each page can be searched on, can have comments/trackbacks, and can even use Textile and/or SmartyPants formatting for the content of the pages.

The only problem with doing this at all is, for me, a purely practical one. Every time I want to change permissions on a folder, I need to contact my web host, which is slightly annoying. I really should just tell them to open up the necessary permissions for my entire site, which would mean I could get to updating some of the amazingly stale sections of my site.

Update: Doug Bowman has also written up his non-standard use of MT(Movable Type) to redo his portfolio page.