I am making the transition from plain html to the Wordpress blogging software. I pretty much knew from the beginning that some sort of blogging software would be necessary but I started out coding it in html with the thought I would change later.
It was partly a “real programmers code html in vi” mentality but mostly because there were many blogging software packages and I hadn’t decided which one was the “best” for my purposes and my environment. In the end it finally came down to Wordpress versus Moveable Type. The decision to go with WordPress was given an extra impetus when a webhosting customer decided to use it more as a Content Management System rather than a blogging tool see http://www.thechildrensgarden.info. And lastly a decision between Wordpress vs Wordpress-MU where Wordpress-MU is a single multiuser installation implemented sitewide. I went with a straight Wordpress (per website) implementation for now. One thing I noticed is that Wordpress’s spell checker caught a few spelling errors that I had missed coding straight html in vi.