In the late 1990s, I created the TKDTutor website to provide comprehensive information about taekwondo and other martial arts. I built it using Microsoft Frontpage as the CMS and it went online in January 2000. Over the next two decades, the site underwent revisions and rebuilds, such as when Frontpage became Microsoft Expression and when I switched to using Joomla as the CMS.
Since its inception, the site has grown to over 900 articles that contain over a MILLION words; this is the equivalent of 13 average size novels. To build and maintain a site of this size requires a lot of time, work, and cost, even when you do it all yourself.
In 2017, I grew weary of the work needed to maintain the site, defending it against attackers, and the cost of keeping it online; however, I still wanted to keep the information available on the web. I just needed a cheaper and less time-consuming way of doing it that still allowed visitors to easily find the information and then present it in an easy-to-read format.
After a lot of research and months of trial and error using various CMS, I found a solution—Google Blogger.
The following topics describe how TKDTutor was rebuilt using Blogger and how this lead to the creation of Blogger Page Manager.