I feel a bit guilty posting this in the compo blog, but I think this is a legitimate inquiry that might be of help to others besides myself.

Here’s the deal:

I want to set up a personal website as a permanent portal for my game development news and any games I write.  To this point I’ve been using dropbox to host files and linking them from my tumblr blog.  I’d like to find a solution that allows more flexibility than tumblr in site layout but still supports a blog format.  Being a game development site I would need to be able to support hosting my projects and ideally I would like to have support for embedded flash content since my recent experimentation with flixel.  Another want is the ability to write completely custom html and css, while php would be a bonus.

I’m interested in what solutions other developers (like you) are using.  What has worked for you?  What hasn’t?  I’ve experimented with Google Sites, WordPress, and some other options but I haven’t found anything to really fit the bill.  So what do you use?  Are you happy with it?  Would you recommend it as a solution?

I trust LD community and its varied experience can provide some good input on this topic, just as I am sure there are others in the community with the same question I have.  Thank you.

P.S.  This would be an excellent question for an LD forum if there was one…