@jwildeboer i just came across my old static html site yesterday & wonder why not doing stuff like that any more. In the throes of arsing around with Wordpress themes, each of which seems to be a more all-encompassing wysiwyg world of its own than the last ... when really what i'm after are rather tiny details that i just haven't worked out how to modify in the phps.
my instinct says diy is always simpler in the end ... just as that html site came from frustration with dreamweaver ...