hmmm
I decided to rewrite my webpage, and this time to create scripts that will create all the html from a template file and some .content files. The basics work great. However, now I'm considering how to handle "special case" pages, like my screenshots page nad my random pictures page. On those pages I want to take a dir of images with one file that contains captions and automagically create an index page containing thumbnails that link to pages with the actual pictures (or the image files themselves, in the screenshot page). Right now, my main script looks for all the .content files in the main dir and creates .html files from those. I also have a couple of scripts that will create the "special" pages on their own. I'm trying to see if I can come up with a way of having one script do it all for me, and whether that will just be nasty (do i have a .pages file that tells my script which pages are "special"....
I know that there are 10,000 packages out there that will do exactly what I'm doing now for me much more elegantly and better than anything I can write, but writing this crap is helping me with the depression I've been struggling with for the last several days. sigh

update
I of course realized that i was being an idiot. All I have to do is create the custom .content files seperately, and then my script can create the html from those. So the main body of my script looks like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

&make_pixcontent;
&make_sscontent;
&make_html;

inside the make_pixcontent and make_sscontent subs I create a .content page that, when parsed, creates an index page of all the images thumbnailed, and then a bunch of .content files that parse to have the full sized image on the page. Whee!