I have a fully designed website, but need an easy way to post news. I do not care for WordPress or any of those other blog programs. I just want something to post new or an update and I only want it on the first page, the rest of the website is something else.

Along with the ability to post news (a few lines at most) with a date stamp, I'd also like the ability for the news to archive automatically after the first 5 or so posts.

Is there a way to do this without putting a whole blog CMS in my site? Wordpress just seems too intrusive and to have too much for what I need. Unfortunately Blogger's FTP is dying as well. I'm even interested in offline software that I can do this with. I'd just like code I can input into my site on the web server and pull data from the database if need be.

I just don't need everything wordpress or similar CMS' have to offer. I tried the barebones wordpress themes, but they still have too much. I don't want comments, forums, any of that stuff. I just want to be able to post a few lines of news with a date/time stamp and have it archive automatically with an archive link in the sidebar. I just need to be able to post this code on one page of my site, the first page. I'd also like to implement the archives in the preexisting web page as well.

Any suggestions?