How cool is Movable Type? I just spent last week rebuilding a site with it that isn't a weblog at all.
My artist friends in DC need a site to announce their news items, describe their organization, list some links of interest, and show off their members' works. I built the first version in 2002 using a set of HTML macros and Unix make files, all of it very kludgy.
The whole site consists of lists of stuff, and blog software is good for that: for collecting blocks of HTML and presenting them in list form. News items are dated in the way blog entries are; the "about" info is a series of text blurbs; the "links" page has several sections on a page; and the members' pages are each a series of images.
So I created three blog structures in MT: one contains the news items; another has the "about" text and the "links" text, each in separate categories; and another has a post for each art work displayed, with the member's name being the category. Thus the category archive pages which MT generates become the member pages.
I made a fourth blog structure to hold the common items: the stylesheet and the standardized banner HTML blocks.
Add some images generated with the Gimp, and some colors from a fun color site, and the site's done.
