I am very new to blogging and have created a static HTML blog page on my website that matches the site "look & feel". (see link below)

http://www.frontierzero.com/blog/blog.htm

This project is aimed at "converting" (or replacing) the existing static HTML blog front page on my website in favor of a "standard" blog front page (XML?) that can be handled by blog search engines like Technorati and various RSS feeds so I can syndicate my content. I'd prefer an RSS 2.0 feed type as opposed to Atom. (with a functional "Subscribe" button on the blog front page)

I want the blog entirely on my website - not on Blogger or other 3rd party services so that I am not at their mercy regarding content, "look and feel", access or "corporate policy".

Basically I'd like something like a main page "template" that I can "drop" my content into so I'm not struggling with creating XML blog pages every time I want to post a new article. I can "switch" the new blog main page with the older one, archiving the older article and putting a new link to it on the new main page.

This may sound a bit "clunky" but it gets the job done. If you can suggest a better way, I'll listen but reserve the right to make the final call on how we do it. I don't want to depend on any server-side features and services because I change host providers every now and then and learned the hard way to do everything on my local system and FTP to the server.

My content is mainly text, JPEG graphics and links to other web pages. I also want to link to older PDF & HTML articles I have on the site, saving older blog articles and providing links to them from the main blog page as I continue to generate new articles.

See "Deliverables" section for additional project information and requirements.