One interesting approach I’ve run into recently (after I found that most blogs don’t do static pages and most CMS’s don’t do blogs – well, there are exceptions…) – that you set up a CMS to do the organization for the site. These hold the valuable data that a business needs to continually brief their clients on. Then you cobble on a blog which takes care of the more time-sensitive data. The popular posts can then be copied (not moved – you lose your SEO love that was built-up; link it to your static page) when you find them.

But search engines love blogs, and customers like to find stuff they need all the time. So the marriage seems a nice little strategy. (Again, WP gets real stodgy if you try to do both on it – a few static pages seem OK, but it’s really best as a blog.) You can also use low-overhead CMS (even static html pages for fast loading) as any sort of data-base driven blog has quite a bit of overhead to it.

Some ideas anyway…