Step 1: point domain at a thing. Done.
Step 2: put some words on the thing so people can see it. Done.
Step 3: make thing domain points at more complex. Done.
Step 4: make complex thing easy to edit so more words can be put on the thing. In progress.
A while back I tossed together some PHP for a proof of concept. I reflected on my disdain for content management platforms like WordPress. There's a few reasons I don't like content management platforms: first, they're a constant target for script attacts, and second, they're massive, bloated, and overburdened with features. There's a part of me that wants to just toss some basic html up and call it a day - no attack vector, no bloat. No convenience. No complexity. Boring. Thinking back to the old days, I rolled my own content management system from the ground up. It's dreadfully simple (you're looking at it) but it does exactly what I need. I can add new pages (check!), give them vanity urls (check!), embed a video (check!), order them in a table of contents (check!), easily customize categories and sub-menus (check!), and edit things without mucking about in the database (so check, much wow!). There's a few pieces I need to work on, of course. That table of contents is manually designated, so re-ordering contents is basically math homework. I don't have a system in place to upload binary data. There's still some ... quirky behavior. But for a first pass, I think it'll do.
I suppose every project starts somewhere. I think this is a good start, and it's got enough room to grow that I can duct-tape some stuff on it as the need arises.
-dirgo