In my opinion, a tumblelog is an excellent format for a personal website. It allows you to quickly post photos, conversations, video, text, quotes and links without a lot of overhead.

Tumblr is a great service that allows users a large amount of customization of the their tumblelogs for being a hosted service. Several sites have brilliantly integrated Tumblr into their static and dynamic sites for their blogging needs.

When redesigning my family website, I seriously considered this route. That is when I realized a few drawbacks on things I wanted available on the site.

• No built in search
• No built in commenting system
• Lack of archives

There are ways to get around the first two items.

Then after reading Ben Gray’s article on implementing the tumble-hybrid approach into the Texpattern CMS. I thought this would be a great format to develop and use. Allowing me to post some quick posts and length