What do ya'll use? I pretty much just split it up into 3 or 4 different pages and bind it together with the php include function (Used to use SSI the same way).

Anyhow I'm planning put to a little personal site together mainly just to try out some things I need to learn for future jobs, and I thought it was time to look into easier management systems. I never can make a layout I totally like, so I imagine I'll be changing it a lot.

Take a look at Smarty (http://smarty.php.net) it is a compiling PHP Template System made by some of the PHP folks.

It is fast, easy to extend, fairly lightweight, and powerful.

Because it is a compiling template system it only has to parse the template files each time they change, not every page load.